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Horizon
04:03
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Block of clay, vision of form
Moulding the future, instant by instant
Method in motion, choosing to choose
Beginning to move
Burn the page, new words in the ash
Unstuck from the ruts of a story that’s over
The world as we know it, upon which we stand
It’s beginning to move
Suddenly seeing the world as a canvas
Old deeds for old times
New ways of being on the horizon
New deeds for new times
Only that day dawns to which we are awake
The light for which we must fight is fading
It’s fading
If we stray, our spirits forlorn
Believe in the promise of more day to dawn
The morning exposes a path through the thorns
New ways of being
Thoughts dissolve
Suddenly seeing
New ways of being
New deeds
There’s more day to dawn
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Possible Worlds
03:05
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These End of Days I’ve been consumed
By this unfolding demise
But all I seek is a corner of peace
From which to see a new sun rise
All those years I wandered Earth
Without a map for my return
Running in the ruts, rubbing salt in cuts
The soundtrack to which Rome burns
I was out of my soul
I was out
Even though apocalypse is on its way
I don’t want to think about it
Out here in the garden a burden lifts
As the light goes out in the West
This might be the best of all possible worlds
Caught up in the tangle of abundance
I lost my way
But here confusion clears
A morning breaks my soul awake
All these years I’ve wandered Earth
Without an end to my desire
So much fuel but not enough air
To breathe embers into fire
I’ve been out of my soul
I’ve been out
The path so long has been concrete covered
Buried under a myth
But out here in the garden a burden lifts
As a light goes out in the West
A culture laid to rest
Giving birth to new possible worlds
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Affluenza
04:15
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The path was set, I just walked down
Couldn’t think for myself, could not turn around
But too much was never enough
So I simplified, I simplified
I’m walking down a new path now
And I won’t turn around, I won’t turn around
Too much is never enough
So I simplified, I simplified
If you wanted to go it alone
You could start today
We can make something new
Out of what we have been made into
We must create the path we take
The burden is mine to not fall in line
Too much is never enough
So simplify, simplify
Born into the West like you
History has given us a silver spoon
But too much is never enough
So simplify, simplify
If you wanted to go it alone
You could start today
We can make something new
Out of what we have been made into
But I have to go to work
‘Cause I feel this obligation
To get more than I need
To make me happy
So I spend my life at work
And now I’m so tired
That I need to get away
Step away
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Sleepwalk
03:58
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Deep time is crumbling quickly
Through confusion of desire
But surely it’s not time for us to surrender
Surely it’s not time for us to surrender
If we don’t change direction
We’ll end up where we’re headed for
Do we really know what we are in for?
Could we really say we didn’t know?
Like a snake eating its own tail
We are a cancer cell that will grow itself to death
We were born into the dream of progress
And now we sleepwalk over the edge
Over the edge
Deep time is crumbling quickly
Eroded by our great machines
But surely it’s not time for us to surrender
Surely it’s not time for us to surrender
We were sold a dream of progress
But now we sleepwalk over the edge
We sleepwalk over the edge
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10,000 Years
05:24
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We get by with sleep in our eyes
Feel cold all the time
So we cook ourselves alive
We cook ourselves alive
When the internal heat
Is turned down so low and tamed
We cook ourselves alive
10,000 years from now
They read a story of demise
It seems slow to us now
Primal scream
What about our internal light?
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The Crash Narrative Melbourne, Australia
The Crash Narrative address the demise of industrial civilisation with defiant positivity but without false hope. This
Melbourne / Christchurch duo create soundscapes of carefully crafted instrumentation with melodic vocals.
The Crash Narrative will uplift and inspire, offering listeners a sophisticated and diverse sonic repertoire that uses music to explore our ecological predicament.
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