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Thought camera
04:20
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The thought camera
Most people are oblivious
to what is within themselves
They say seeing is believing
Let’s project it onto a wall
An ultrasound of ideas being born
New clothes before they’ve been worn
So I can make sense of your world
So I can make sense of your world
I need the thought camera that Nikola dreamed of
The thought camera, the thought camera
Being alone is the secret of invention
And instinct transcends knowledge
Egos, beliefs, and fears separate us
Why not make our minds an open book?
Could we light the world up with the electricity
Generated by your hatred?
These electrical impulses should be put to use!
How will we know if this is all an illusion?
So I can make sense of your world
So I can make sense of your world
I need the thought camera that Nikola dreamed of
The thought camera, the thought camera
You can think deeply and be quite insane
Are there signs we should look out for?
Mr Orwell might be quite amazed by the surveillance
But we still don’t have a mind-reading machine
So I can make sense of your world
So I can make sense of your world
I need the thought camera that Nikola dreamed of
The thought camera, the thought camera
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Poltergeist
03:24
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Poltergeist
What does it take
to wake your poltergeist
And send the saucers
Spinning out of control?
They whizz right past your head
How much are you haunted?
Is that what makes the furniture move?
Are your pent up
emotions breaking through?
Scaring everyone like a poltergeist
Have you opened the door into another mind?
Can you tell me what’s wrong?
We sat round a table
feeling spooked
And fed our unease
The letters trembled,
And so did we!
Maelstroms don’t form
without a cause
The coal in the fireplace jumped out
We’re under siege
Scaring everyone like a poltergeist
Have you opened the door into another mind?
Can you tell me what’s wrong?
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Cult of fake heroes
04:26
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The cult of fake heroes
Every school kid learned his name
The storyline was powerful
At the time they needed heroes
From a village in Siberia
Got his dad into trouble
Murdered and made an icon
Pavlik Morozov
Cult of fake heroes
Filled the labour camps
Useful idiots
Spent time inventing
Fanciful stories
But they have crumbled now
You should have seen the statues
Watched the opera of his life
Pioneer hero number one
Stalin called him a snotrag
A hoodlum singing obscene songs
Inspiration for red terror.
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The outsider
04:54
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The Outsider
Darger The outsider
Saviour and betrayer at once; what a conundrum
Throwing ashes in her eye, a dangerous Peter Pan
Indulged excessively in playing with himself
Dragged back to the asylum lassoed behind a horse
ah-bah-suh-duh
Trash hunter, speaking nonsense alone
A mimic with half a stolen painting
Repaired rubber bands and broken glasses
Why are there bricks under your mattress?
Darger The outsider
15,000 pages of fantasy, in the realms of the unreal
9-foot-long drawings on both sides, his panoramic sagas
Emotionally arrested, he didn’t know what to do with freedom
He wrote about the weather, when not in fantastic battles in his mind
ah-bah-suh-duh
Thought he was a shell-shocked war veteran
No-one knew what he did there for 40 years
A cluttered room for a crowded mind
He was taken ill but his art was left behind
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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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