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Towers so Tall
04:57
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Down on their knees, bled dry and broken
Disparity of wealth, inferiority unspoken
Skyboxes rise, high and foreboding
Classes divided, society eroding
Dignity defiled and kindness torn
From tainted child a tyrant born
As charity’s bribed with cash incentives
Soldiers of fortune, their strikes are pre-emptive
We’re outsourcing wars under the table
Bomb shelters built for the wealthy and able
Dignity defiled and kindness torn
From tainted child a tyrant born
I declare to the vain in your towers so tall
If divided we stand, then united we’ll fall
In the day, when it rained, it fell down on us all
We call upon you to tear down this wall
In the race for the wealth that so proudly you hail
Take the fast lane to where commonality fails
Before it’s too late we must all tip the scales
A market society puts our souls up for sale
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Permeate
03:56
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Faint, the light in your eyes now
You're safe, dragging your horrors behind
Pain, does it make you blind now?
To say, you feel more dead than alive
And I reach out to pull you up
And all of these walls that caved you in
And all of your hopes they faded thin
Pale, first sun in your eyes now
We failed to find you somewhere to hide
And all of these walls that caved you in
And all of your hopes they faded thin
And all of our warmth it grazed your skin
All comforting words they rage within
And all of these walls that caved you in
And all of your hopes they faded thin
And none of our words could raise your chin
And so you pulled out the safety pin
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Fall Over
03:55
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Say, can you start a fire?
Set me free from shame
Kindle my desire
Bursting into flames
This callous heart's no giveaway
You gotta make me fall over, fall over
Before we get carried away
You gotta make me fall over, fall over again
Hey, are you what I require?
Just let me ascertain
Should I lead you to retire
To where two can play this game
This callous heart's no giveaway
You gotta make me fall over, fall over
Before we get carried away
You gotta make me fall over, fall over again
To be the sunlight of my day
You gotta make me fall over, fall over
The brightest star in my milky way
You gotta make me fall over, fall over again
Accomplished, heart of gold
Ain't got me in a chokehold
Warmhearted, yet so cool
In charge and living to the full
Bewitching seductress
Won't settle for anything less
With steadfast self-restraint
And pride to go against the grain
Bewitching seductress
Won't settle for anything less
Keeps stepping up her game
To sing a part in this refrain
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Tranen van de Regen
04:07
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In de kalmte van de morgen
In het oog van de storm
Gestalte krijgt vorm
Niemand hoeft te delen in mijn zorgen
Ik heb tranen van de regen
'k Was zo met jou verweven
Maar ik neem in ogenschouw
Wat je me spelde op de mouw
Als de winter staat te beven
'k Kom liever niemand tegen
Snel op weg voor dag en dauw
Liever dan nog een nacht bij jou
Deze leegte moet ik borgen
Het nemen als een nieuwe start
Alsof het lot mij tart
Ik kijk tot aan de dag van morgen
Ik heb tranen van de regen
Het spettert op de wegen
Ik droog ze aan mijn sjaal
Ik maak dat ik verdwaal
't Is me eigenlijk om het even
Ik heb alles gegeven
Elke hectometerpaal
Schrijft een zin in een nieuw verhaal
In de kalmte van de morgen
Het oog van de storm
Niet te delen in mijn zorgen
Gestalte krijgt vorm
De leegte moet ik borgen
Nemen als een nieuwe start
Tot aan de dag van morgen
Alsof het lot mij tart
De kalmte van de morgen
Het oog van de storm
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Hungry for the Day
04:00
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Awake, a slumbrous haze
In this state my thoughts will race
Ended my days as a grinding slave
Got sick of riding the wave and
Now and again you wonder how your spirit got so low
Too damn easy to surrender to the flow
Don't settle for doing okay
Be hungry for the day
Don't let your fate get in your way
Be hungry for the day
A frantic mental state
When my plans can't seem to wait for dawn
My brain waves oscillate
Ideas accumulate and
Now and again, you must seek to recirculate the flow
The lifeblood that was drained so long ago
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Gravitating aimlessly towards growing animosity
Going from a stand-still to terminal velocity
Static on our transmissions relayed across the great divide
Breaching hull integrity, our connections have come untied
Propelling you and me out of synchronicity
Park our broken satellite
Into graveyard orbit, in graveyard orbit
Park our broken satellite, tonight
Into graveyard orbit, in graveyard orbit
Frail fractured vessel I discard, it’s time that it retired
Our craft took to the skies, but our rockets have misfired
Now left in disregard to space’s lifeless choir, we expire
Pushed out to the sun in another space-time continuum
Ensuring your tantrums are smothered in a vacuum
If you linger here, your frozen tears would collide
Away from my periphery your fragments I cast aside
Keeping the debris out of my trajectory
We have expired
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Meet the New You
03:00
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Brain connectivity
Modulating frequency
Cybernetic ability
Meet the new you
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Echo Chamber
04:38
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Sing to me, it is the same old song
When no uncertainty survives
But all the facts went wrong
Sing to me, strike the reverberant gong
In this encasement falsehoods thrive
Disinformation's born
It's lather, rinse, repeat
Distort until complete
Through tribalism we always seem to
regard it as true
Suppress, withhold the files
Insurgent voice exiled
If all comes out in time, they'll just say
an apology's due
The echo chamber calls
It bounces off the walls, it is a lie
But we're so comforted by our certainty
The truth remains unseen
We're cogs in the machine
They lead the blind
Only shadows we'll find
Of what once was real
“Once the wheels are set in motion,
it becomes nearly impossible for people
to accept new facts that refute the rumour.
And it is through this mechanism that even
the slightest hints of economic decline
become self-fulfilling prophecies.”
Sing to me, it is the same old song
So little subtlety survives
And all the facts went wrong
The echo chamber sounds
Convenient culprit found
The buckets full of blame are in place
above the drop zone
We need not be concerned
Our prejudice confirmed
We elbow through the crowd
to try to cast the first stone
“Your internet browsing experience is
highly personalised. Any opinions conflicting
with your own are filtered out”
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This Broken Dance
04:15
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So impassioned they sway to the singing of strings
They waltz in a tangerine glow
They say it's just play, but somehow it stings
In my mind the image is frozen
You take this broken dance
That I avert my eyes from
I wait here in the cold
Until another day comes
You take this broken dance
The beating of the bodhrán
Has put my heart on hold
I die with every harp strum
You take this broken dance
So entangled we lay in the quarters of kings
We watch the tumbling snow
A celestial display, but love lost its wings
‘Cause in my mind the enchantment is broken
Caresses in the masquerade, they're served in spades
They spiral, a devouring swarm
It' s your embrace of those in my place
My rivals and their hungry arms
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The Educators
04:14
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Keep your pace, adverts shout, leave your doubts in the bygone
Just a face in the crowd, he stood out as an icon
Hail to the educators
You're right, but your truth's no purpose in jail
No regret you gave us
Just spite for your views impervious
We pay to paint a brighter day, you say a thousand invocations
A solemn proclamation
We hate, to validate to close the gates, preserve our civilisation
The splendour of the nation
Set the stage, play the crowd, sell them out to your rival
Collect the wage, keeping count, lost and found, for survival
Vain are the educators
White lies brought knives to gunfights
Obtain freedoms they forbade us
Black ties dictate, shoot on sight
Keep your pace, adverts shout, leave your doubts, a disciple
Set the stage, play the crowd, sell them out to your rival
Vain are the educators, white lies, black ties, shoot on sight
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Your Clandestine
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I am your ghost ride, I am the secret that you hide
You invite me inside
Behind your cold eyes I cannot tell truth from lie
I'm your clandestine tonight
Where we walk we tread lightly, leaving not too deep a mark
Our footsteps will wash away when the final storm comes
Your door is half open, your engine runs outside
We're dancing on the edge of a knife
And when I fall who will hear me scream
When the time comes, there will be calm after the storm
When the time comes, there is no loss left to mourn
When the time comes, the ties that bind are torn
When the time comes, your bed will still be warm
I am your train between stations, the deputy between your sheets
To strike up a conversation and sustain your fleshly deeds
You treat me like a stranger, so you can make me disappear
I put my heart in danger, took the plunge, ignored the fear
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Heliophile Enschede, The Netherlands
Heliophile is Gijs van Ouwerkerk and Maarten Vloon, a synthpop duo from The Netherlands. Consistent with their geographical
location, between the UK and Germany, their music can be described as a cross between the more accessible British synthpop and the slightly darker stuff made in Germany.
Similar artists: Diorama, De/Vision, Mesh, VNV Nation, Tenek, Pet Shop Boys.
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