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Mockumentary
04:58
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Doomscroll down your insta feed
Leave a like with a 2020 energy
You know by now it doesn't make it untrue
So roll your eyes all you want to (and you want to)
Find a story, feast your eyes
A narcissist, a billionaire, someone to despise
An act of god, dirty politics
The schadenfreude junkie needs another fix
Feel the appeal
An ego ideal
Seductive, surreal
Swipe it away
Miracle play
On New Year’s Day
Badly-scripted memories
A mockumentary
Your lines in ink smudged on your wrist
Waiting for the unexpected plot twist
Another calendar Christmas gift
This token in your mind can bring a seismic shift
A symbolic turning of the page
Sunny landscape light on this dark age
Stick your fingers in your ears
Panacea in this change of years
Welcome to the twenty-first century
Living in this mockumentary
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Fugue state
04:10
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“Do you remember all your dreams, babe?"
You say say as you roll your next cigarette
I blink, "Not even dreams from last night"
You draw a breath, tell me "I can't forget"
The sun is sinking in the west now
Feel that surrender in the haze of twilight
And our senses overwhelmed by
Familiar scents and sounds of our night
Fugue state
Eyes close in seamless escape
Mind games
Welcome the open embrace
Fugue state
Eyes close in seamless escape
Come stay
Come stay
Away in this state
There swims that siren 'bove your bed head
The sparkling blue and green night sky of Chagall
And when you tell me that you're off to fade away
Can't help but wonder if you're irl
"In between there is a river
Come on and push me in the water
Let me float beneath the current
I am the daughter of the river"
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3. |
The Mountain
04:35
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This child, these children will not go away
At least that's the hope as I end my days
With their gaze as I fade
Drift into haze and contemplate
The mountain...
For this is no hole that we have dug
No trap we have set and wait to be sprung
Our lives are in no way undone
Now we are made, reborn, we live as one
The mountain...
King of the castle, Queen of the land
These towers we've built are made of dirt and of sand
The girl turned woman, boy became man
The sea turned to land and then we saw
The mountain...
This child, these children will not go away
Yeah that's the hope to the end of my days
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Caravan
05:34
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There’s a caravan
At the side of the road
Heart-strong
Bearing our load
(Got the) good frying pan
Coffee machine
Your turtleneck sweater
My polypropylene
Head into the sunlight
Reflected by the moonrise
Caravan
Wheels on the road
Caravan
Love on the road
Follow
We do not mind
Meander the asphalt paths
Cars are backed up behind
White line
Ticks, flicks past our eyes
More miles
Means more civilised
Head into your sunlight
Reflected by my moonrise
Chorus
In the shadow of mountains
River beside
We scan the horizon
A map in the sky
Hum of the wheels that spin
Rhythm immersed
We are the centre
Of this universe
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End of the circle
04:28
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Poor wretch, mortal flesh
Knife's edge all too keen
Shake me, break me
Circle round again
Break the surface
Rise up to submerge
Wash myself clean
System is purged
As I end the cycle
Last farewell my friend
Complete the circle
Take me to the end
Full bloom, scent of perfume
Done with holding my breath
Scars fade but this broken blade
Grasped in my hand -- life giving death can
End the cycle
Last farewell my friend
Complete the circle
Take me to the end
Poor fools -- me and you
At least I've broken the chain
But you're doomed, power consumed
Because you're unable to
End the cycle
Last farewell my friend
Complete the circle
Take me to the end
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6. |
Donnie likes to party
05:06
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The temperature's rising
Hotter than the sun
Donnie wants to party
He says, "Babe, invite everyone"
And so they all gather
Bleed the night till it falls
Twist and shout, give me shelter
Bleed the night till it falls
Now a strange moon is rising
Bathe the world in grey light
Donnie rocks like a baby
'til he feels out of sight
But the guests have started leaving
The drugs turn their tongues numb
And Donnie's a little queasy
The drugs turn his tongue numb
We're all right
Tonight
Tonight we are right
Well a new day is sliding
It gathers pace like a ball
The little one's started crying
At the mess down the hall
Donnie's lying spread-eagled
His eyes fill with a haze
"Go get me a drink, girl"
His eyes filled with the haze
We're all right
Tonight
Tonight we are right
Donnie's girl is gliding through the crowd like a train
Turns her back to them all
He won't see her again
It's raining in her heart, it's raining in her soul
That fuck ruined another party
It's raining in her soul
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7. |
Blaze of your star
04:47
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The words of one so young stand poignant as a sigh
He looks down and scribbles out line after crooked line
And so the letters fall
Plenty to fill the page
Dark light grey between
Such wisdom despite his age
Last year came the cry that God did not exist
He said "Look to the stars and embrace galactic drifts"
Hold on to me, we'll defy gravity
Hold on to me, yeah one and one sometimes make three
And I am lost in the blaze of your star
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8. |
My own devices
05:54
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My timing is off
I feel it
I can’t stop or recommence
I’m on the fence
So afraid I’ll fall
My timing is off
I hear it
The polite cough, 16th note sense
She came and went
Saw through it all
My timing is off
They feel it
In every drop before the bridge
Notes no longer hit
Heed T-Pain’s call
My timing is off
But I still sing
Yeah I’m the king
Bearing gifts and bling
For your cause break down any wall
And my life is cut in splices
And I’m left to my own devices
Where’s the one, hit the one, rattle hum, looking for for it
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The Fabulists Dunedin, New Zealand
The Fable brothers, Ray, Troy and Kai. Weavers of tales, loops, beats and songcraft. Alt-funk-indie-rock.
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