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In Last or Outcast
05:28
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Gather round all ye faithful, this is no time to be on your own
no longer bound by distance, now you can bring worship to your homes
Maybe you're looking to fill your time, maybe you're looking to fill your soul
even by yourself, you can assure you'll never have to feel alone
Now part of this institution, you can't even imagine this world without
it's taken all your friends, it's all they think, it's all they talk about
Page by page, a coming of age, they won't change, this is how they want to be
they're happy with the way they are, happy within their cage of complacency
I don't need to "Like" you to like you...
And I don't need to "Friend" you, to be a friend to you...
But these little things, they were simple before, you'd better believe that they're not any more
Yesterday's craze is essential today, if you don't give in, then you just might fade away...
Gather round all ye faithful, it's time to burn them all at the stake
these heretics are not like us, we'll burn them until their spirits break
They might say, they've chosen this way, but these unbelievers do not speak the truth
because if you don't believe, if you're not one of us, then there's something wrong with you
I don't need to "Like" you to like you...
And I don't need to "Friend" you, to be a friend to you...
But these little things, they were simple before, you'd better believe that they're not any more
Yesterday's craze is essential today, I don't want to give in, but I don't want to fade away...
But this choice it kills me, do I follow without delay?
Or do I keep off the wagon, and be left behind as it rolls away?
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FREE or best offer
05:32
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CDs, TVs and MP3s, they help to put your life at ease,
but how many do we really need of these?
Computers and telephones help us talk to the world so we don't feel alone,
but we're as good as turned to stone
[Mounds forming]
In the mirror's the enemy,
we know them all too well...
We're living on the production line, where nobody can see the signs
that their mind is oppressed, told to buy the best
I refuse...
But that's all that's in their eyes, only sign they see is to advertise
they lust for the best, we're lost among the rest
of the refuse...
One or two million, or three or four, units churned out on the factory floor,
when they sell, we'll just build more
[and more, and more, and more]
And they don't know it yet, but they need it,
because we'll tell them so and [repeat] repeat it
it's all about the dough-on't you see it?
[Mountains forming]
It's all made for, but at what cost to,
the world that we live in, it's true
that we have to want to change if we want to continue
[Islands forming]
In the mirror's the enemy,
we know them all too well
What is it now that you're trying to sell me?
Don't tell me, don't tell me, no don't tell me about it...
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Jump/Push/Fall
04:58
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I know you were young once, and you could get away with anything at all
But those excuses that you made, well in this day and age, they will not help you anymore
And now that you're older, you realise your history's mistakes
That what you cause is affected by, your certainty that all is yours to take
But now it's time you've got to...
Stand tall... and reach for the sky
If you come together you can get so high
It's for your sons and daughters, and you know the reason why
So you can look them in the eye,
and tell them that you tried
Engines burning, people climbing, the sky dividing as they all break away
Never mind the price, the cost to all of us is so much greater if we stay
Oh, some may dwell in apathy, some may disagree but I'll say I believe in you
I know that you can do it, I know that you are strong, and that you can see it through
Oh yeah you know you've got to...
How much bigger can you grow?
Just how much longer can you fit inside your home?
You've overwhelmed and overflowed,
and if you don't leave this dead-end town your seeds are sown
And you keep digging just to feed these hunger pains,
but when there is so much lost tell me what's the gain
And we may never be the same,
but now we may never be at all, and you'll be the one to blame, yes you'll be the one to blame
unless you...
Stand tall...
and reach for the sky
There's nowhere left in this world,
We need to get so... high
And I know that we can make it,
or at least together we can try
together, together we can...
Stand tall... and reach for the sky
Yeah if we come together we can get so high
It's for our sons and daughters, and we know the reason why
It's so our sons and daughters, will look us in the eye, we've got to...
Stand tall together...
or we'll fall forever...
and it's now or never...
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Stop and Smell the Smoke
04:42
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We've been friends from the start,
our parents they had so much trouble keeping us apart
But now something's come between us, I don't know what to do,
because this something, my friend, is killing you
it's killing you...
You were always the eager one,
your motto said that you'd try anything twice
It didn't really matter, as long as you were having fun,
but then one day you found your vice,
and it's killing you...
it's killing you...
Well this smoke I see, surely leads to fire
and if you don't watch out, you're gonna get burned
Burned by your desire, ohh...
Why do you always fly so high?
Do you do it just to feel the clouds pass you by?
Does it make the clock turn faster, when you fill your time with laughter?
Can it help you to forget that you're alone?
As it's killing you...
And I wish I knew the right words, to win this secret battle of yours
There've been too many casualties already, you've gotta hold it steady
because eventually you'll lose
Don't you know this killing you, is killing me, no one else can see
and you know that I can't live without you, I'm begging on my knees
This beast that's in control of you, we've gotta break it's hold onto,
break it's hold on you...
So you can be free,
just like you used to be...
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Conspiracy of One Brisbane, Australia
A bit sciency. A bit funny.
Debut album 'Road to Reason' is out now!
Solo project of Brisbane/Meanjin-based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter & science comminucator Nate Eggins.
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