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Skeleton Lake
03:39
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Skeleton Lake
The porters thought it was a ghost land
it made them catch their breath
Hunting for plants, they stumbled on skeleton lake
At the bottom of a steep slope
In the summer heat
The ice has all gone and bones litter the shores
Were iron balls thrown from the sky
By a goddess enraged?
When she saw all the dancing girls
Defiling the sacred landscape
We know that some of the victims
Were a long way from home
But why they were there still nobody knows
It’s an area of reverence
With shrines all around
But there’s only one lake like this in the world
Were iron balls thrown from the sky
By a goddess enraged?
When she saw all the dancing girls
Defiling the sacred landscape
A macabre mystery
Always more questions raised
In a place of mythology
Truth is easily erased
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Meandering Lights
05:19
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Meandering lights
He came into the world with the great comet,
and he went out with it as well.
Hynek’s temple of astronomy
Was on the shores of Bigfoot Lake
Worked for the air force, a relentless debunker,
a Sherlock Holmes of sky phenomena.
The nation’s foremost expert on flying saucers
Began to have his doubts
Meandering lights
Not explained by science
So much ridicule
Lampooned in cartoons
In Kubrick’s film
It all looked so real
His invisible college was looking for an extra dimension
He never stopped thinking about what must lie
Beyond all we can see
His interests lay in the limitations,
The places where logic broke down
Those military pilots were expert witnesses
Their testimony can’t be dismissed
Not Soviet ships on spying missions
It was something else he couldn’t explain
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3. |
Catfish Rule the Mall
04:10
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Catfish rule the mall
They built a palace
All shiny to attract hordes
who pray to gods
of fast fashion and technology
Then came a fire
Cut-throats left a brutal scar
A roofless shell in the monsoon
The water kept flooding in
Come see it now, it’s an urban aquarium
And shoals eat algae from the concrete
Now the catfish rule the mall
Yes, the catfish rule the mall
How did they get there?
It wasn’t some prophet’s miracle,
A measure of pest control
As mosquitos were filling the air
Above it may look ugly,
but there’s gold down there underneath
A perfect ecosystem
In the back streets of Bangkok
Come see it now, it’s an urban aquarium
And shoals eat algae from the concrete
Now the catfish rule the mall
Yes, the catfish rule the mall
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4. |
Utopia
03:22
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Utopia
Hair-shirted Thomas More wanted to go to a happy place
A man for all seasons and a man of many faces
A dialogue with a traveller about political activism
Was a strange way to introduce a cry for change so radical
Utopia - we’re always living in the opposite
Utopia - an ideal exported around the world,
but it was never created anywhere at all!
More’s state was puritanical, no free love or leisure time
With no excuse for idleness someone was always watching you
His real world was tyrannical so hard for a man of principles
Beheaded by Henry VIII because he wouldn’t take an oath
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Darvaza Stench
03:16
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Darvaza stench
I’ve never touched the parched badlands of the Karakum
But they hide a surreal site
The north-central plain opens up suddenly
To reveal a huge hole spewing fire
This is the stench from the gates of hell
A top secret soviet sink hole
The Darvaza Crater’s flames
Will scorch your soul when you die
Don’t mess with the dunes around here
You could cause another collapse
Crazy rigs lead to eternal flames
It’s bubbling under now
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Joe Peacock Birmingham, UK
I'm a prolific singer-songwriter from Birmingham - a genre-hopping storyteller, whose music has been compared to Bowie, Blur, Costello and many others. Mostly, my songs tell stories that I find interesting and thought provoking. My music has all been recorded at home so far and all money from the digital sales of my music go into paying producers/mixing & mastering engineers. ... more
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