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Towers so Tall

by Heliophile

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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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Satellite 03:53
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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released October 23, 2015

Written, performed, produced and mixed by Gijs van Ouwerkerk.
Mastered by Ken Porter.
Additional piano on 'Satellite' performed by Ingmar Kops.
Cover photo by Michaela Fastenow, used with kind permission. Edited by Gijs van Ouwerkerk.

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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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