1. |
Critical Mass
00:29
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2. |
UV Catastrophe
04:26
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There's a sign, and a one way road to a higher plane
Yeah yeah
Now it's time, to radiate into hyperspace
Yeah Yeah
It's a state of technology
And a feeling of anxiety
Hot days
All you see is a mystery
Yeah Yeah
Hot days
The facts remain pretty slippery
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
Haul away, scrape the barrel of mythology
Yeah yeah
Too late, it's an ultraviolet catastrophe
Yeah yeah
Someone handed me a bucket list
Split the atom now we don't exist
Hot days
All you see is a mystery
Yeah Yeah
Hot days
The facts remain pretty slippery
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
So you freaks gonna fool around with the spectrum
Yeah Yeah
Light streams from the broken seams of the paradigm
Yeah Yeah
Max P's gonna save your soul
Too tired for this pigeon hole
Hot days
All you see is a mystery
Yeah Yeah
Hot days
The facts remain pretty slippery
Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah
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3. |
Tower Of Babel
03:32
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There's voices in my head
And a string of home truths
God's in the cellar
Trying to save a coupla fools
A whirlwind's takin on
The high street cull
The cut throat gang still reigns
We're raising up the tower
Gonna hit the golden lights
The world's on it's knees
And we're putting up a fight
We're shooting at the stars
And digging in the shite
There's a sucker born each day
There's a wildcat sleeping
Off a hard day's night
There's hell to pay
From the summertime wine
There's black noise oozing
Out the streetcar doors
And the cut throat gang still reigns
We're raising up the tower
Gonna hit the golden lights
The world's on it's knees
And we're putting up a fight
We're shooting at the stars
And digging in the shite
There's a sucker born each day
There's manna in heaven
Through an open door
But it's a cold procession
It's a free fall
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4. |
St Legers Day
03:36
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You a seesaw castaway
I watch you there in grey
To see the race is won
I’ll leave no stone undone
In the frozen atmosphere that binds
St Legers Day you will be mine
You look at once away
And trust in other games
But I won’t leave the stage
Until you’re act is played
When the poison seeps into your mind
St Legers Day you will be mine
When the wind has made you mine
And the rust ties up your time
You’ll be a part of me
Tracing your destiny
When the silent storm has swept the line
St Legers Day you will be mine
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5. |
Man Of Clay
04:21
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For a man of clay
It’s too late today
So the holy ones pray
And the seven array
Searching for the hidden way
In a troubled land
Neath the setting sun
He’s a word away
A man of clay
Searching for the golden dawn
In the hottest days
He wasted away
And the deserts blazed
With the angels in praise
Searching for Elijah to save
Now this lowly man
Toiling under the sun
Faces evil in the promised land
For a message hidden under the tongue
The words don’t come
And it’s too late to say
For a man of clay
In the world today
The price he paid is yesterday
Now truth is the word
That empowers this bird
But the shackles they bind
And his soul is declined
Searching for his freedom defined
In a troubled land
Neath the setting sun
He’s a word away
A man of clay
Searching for the golden dawn
He’s a word away
A man of clay
Searching for the golden dawn
He’s a word away
A man of clay
Searching for the golden dawn
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6. |
Ghost Of A Chance
05:01
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Rising from the darkness
With a flaming synergy
Painting with the heartless
In the mist an effigy
There’s a chance of failure
And a ghostly symmetry
There’s pressure in this crucible
There’s a hidden fountain
Plain and energy
And a proven power function
Describing what you see
There’s a chance of failure
And a ghostly symmetry
There’s pressure in this crucible
Who let you say
The proof is in a powder keg
The rose is beaten and decayed
And I’m leaving home
and a-holding on
For the rose is gone
And they freed the swan
And a secret goal
Is a fathomless road
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7. |
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I'm shipping out days and nights on the sea
With nary a reason to moan
With calico trees and soft scented breeze
We're sailing away on our own
The weather is torn 'tween pleasure and scorn
In sixes and sevens below
With wild winter freeze and vagabond seas
Drink up me hearties yo ho
With the wind at our backs we grow to perceive
Three sentinels sailing alone
With plunder at heart and cutlass to cleave
The roger is taken and flown
The weather is torn 'tween pleasure and scorn
In sixes and sevens below
With wild winter freeze and vagabond seas
Drink up me hearties yo ho
The main it reaches dark into the night
And life it floats and scrapes like dust in your eye
With a creak and groan the galley rolls on it's side
And Davey reaches out to you in his time
So now we sleep o'er side with fishes and freaks
And rest our bones upon the solemn deep
The preservation comes from gravi-tie
She seeks you out down there where dead men lie
And when we're resting underneath
Where sailors dream the darkest dreams
And overhear great Neptune's schemes
With wave and undine
We meet the unseen
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8. |
The Rat In The Hat
03:33
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There’s so much pressure in the world today
There’s a cardboard puppet with no truth to say
There’s trouble brewing in a foreign land
And a pack of bastards standing where I stand
There is a freedom for the ghost and I
But these humans have no open eyes
Why
There’s a school of felons trying to colonise
They’re a one way ticket to the fallen skies
There’s a storm and tempest left your high seas dry
And the prophet tells us that the end is nigh
There is a freedom for the ghost and I
But these humans have no open eyes
Why
There’s a rat in a hat taking bets on the trojan war
And some cat on a mat with his life draining out the door
There’s a crow in a frenzy makes your eyeballs bleed
And the all time loser’d rather play the field
There is a freedom for the ghost and I
But these humans have no open eyes
Why
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9. |
Is It Only Life
05:10
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Is it only life
That I have seen
Through sleep encrusted eyes
It’s only life that stares at me
Is it only life
That brightens up
The deep and darkest night
Is it only life
So life it finally turns to life
The greatest mystery you’ll find
Through broken dreams
An island frozen drifting down through time
Is it only life
That terrifies
The lost and lonely child
Who wakes in fear from his dream
Is it only life
That hides it’s teeth
And shows the paralysed
A pack of lies
Call it a night
And hoist the sails
Ship out to paradise
Too hard to pay the asking price
So bid goodbye
To all this jungle’s lies
And fantasise
It’s only life
So life it finally turns to life
The greatest mystery you’ll find
Through broken dreams
An island frozen drifting down through time
An island frozen drifting down through time
An island frozen drifting down through time
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10. |
Twilight In Your Eyes
06:05
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In a clearing shines a spotlight
And a soldier looks up to see
And he waits for a word that cannot be heard
A presence that’s always unseen
On an island stands a lighthouse
And a sailor looks out to sea
With the wind in his hair and the salt in the air
He is not afraid to leave
While your heart is still alive
And the rage is running free
And the twilight is flooding your eye
The tested are bound to receive
While your heart is still alive
And the rage is running free
And the twilight is flooding your eye
The tested are bound to receive
From a mountaintop stares a wizard
And the devil looks up to see
With a pain in his eyes and a tragic disguise
His poison starts to recede
From the mist there comes a rider
In silence as in a dream
And his face is unclear but we all know he’s here
In the twilight he rides unseen
While your heart is still alive
And the rage is running free
And the twilight is flooding your eye
The tested are bound to receive
While your heart is still alive
And the rage is running free
And the twilight is flooding your eye
The tested are bound to receive
The tested are bound to receive
The tested are bound to receive
The tested are bound to receive
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11. |
Lambs To The Slaughter
03:15
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With the princess high and a slippery slide
You know how the battle has gone
With an open sword and a hungry horde
Chasing me far from home
The pressure plays on my desperate days
And my wounded eyes they try
To see a dazzling sky and a sacrifice
You're takin' me
Far from home
Nights so long in this desert dream
There's a strong man crucified
Whether raging seas or the lightning seeds
The squalor is justified
And you lived so long in an ivory tower
With a secret dark and old
The blazing sky and the terrified
Are takin' you
Far from home
With a hellish howl and a devils glare
You always can rest assured
The passageway to his secret lair
Is on the other side of that door
Well a woman prays in a desperate way
And my searching eyes they try
To see a darkened sky and a stolen time
This place for me
Is far from home
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12. |
Radiation Burns
03:08
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The last crusader
Has travelled alone to the fray
The water it burns
With every breath you embrace
The pressure goes on and on
And soon you will see
The path to be free
It's easy
Your god is unclean
And wants to be left alone
Impression's a tease
So why does no-one know
They tear at the fevered dream
You watching in silence
Telling yourself
It's so easy
It's easy
The lights in the sky
Are so far away from home
In the guise of a seer
The terminal river flows
You carry their tears in iron
You ebonise trees
And crouch in the shadows
It's easy
It's easy
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Rich Black Melbourne, Australia
Heavily guitar oriented with flavours covering a broad gamut from rock through grunge to blues including a few unexpected sidebars, Rich's writing covers a lot of territory. Rich has described his art as ‘kind of a screenplay about the supernatural, science, history and human frailty’ and close scrutiny of the lyrics might support this hypothesis, or not! ... more
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