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Interviewer: At the century’s end, with rising oceans and radiation threatening our very existence, once again humanity looks to technology for salvation.
Father: Ridiculous: your technology has brought us to the very brink of extinction. Destroy it all and banish those who believe otherwise.
I: You talk of banishment but the Mars mission is an exodus, using our last remaining technology to colonise a new planet. And how ironic that the leader of this mission is your wife.
F: It’s not irony - it’s treachery. But no matter: now we Luddites rule the Earth, technology is no longer tolerated here. We have camped inside the last skyscraper still standing and all of our youth strong enough to withstand the radiation are up on its roof sowing the last seeds. With God’s grace, our family of true Earthers will weather this pagan storm and see green fields growing under blue skies once again.
I: But surely all the young people are leaving for Mars?
F: No, no, not all of them…
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2. |
Alone
04:24
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Stars are in motion
Over the ocean
Sickening notion
Nothing is right
Sure as I stand here
Touching the dark air
There is a nightmare
Just out of sight
Post nuclear farmer
High up on the altar
There’s only one answer
And so I obey
Sound of a door key
Turning so slowly
Everything tells me
I have to stay
Alone
Fish out of water
Lamb to the slaughter
Nobody’s daughter
Nobody’s son
Odd sock in the sock drawer
Washed up on the seashore
What’s left of the hardcore
I’m only one
Lost out on the North Sea
Deep under the oak tree
No end to my journey
I’m trying to breathe
Here in the darkness
Seeding the harvest
Stuck in the madness
Never to leave
Alone
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I see you
I feel you
I know you
But I’m not with you
Can’t touch you
Can’t hold you
Can’t show you
How I miss you
Out in space,
far away
See your face
every day
Lost on the horizon
I feel you standing so close to me
But time has been frozen
Reaching for you through eternity
A veil of pollution
Hiding the path that would lead me through
The only solution
Sending my life force to rescue you
Say my name precious one
All this pain nearly gone
I see you
I see you
Until then hold on tight
Promise I will make it alright
I see you
I see you
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4. |
Get The Message Through
03:47
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Surfing into the sky
Time to bid you goodbye
In the blink of an eye
Constellations go by
Sanity, gravity
Doesn’t mean that much to me
On my way to you
Get the message through
Calculations are done
Wheel of fortune has spun
Set my phasers for stun
Burn my wings on the sun
Reprogram, zap my ram
Let me draw you a diagram
On my way to you
Get the message through
The earth is coming faster
Now I need to use the blaster
And the countdown is beginning
And the sky is slowly spinning
Now I feel the pull of gravity
I know the timing’s right for me
I hear a rushing sound and now
I’m landing on the ground
On my way to you
Get the message through
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5. |
Metal From The Skies
01:38
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D: Metal from the skies - run and hide!
R: Don’t be frightened.
D: You’re tech - you’re evil - don’t touch me! Father - let me back downstairs!
R: I have come with a message from your mother.
D: You’re lying! My mother abandoned us years ago - she chose her Tech friends over me - she’s a million miles away on Mars.
R: Not so - she never left. All this time she has been watching from a satellite up above. Now she needs you to come with me, so we can power up the
last spaceship.
D: Shut up! You’re trying to trick me!
R: She said you would not believe me. She told me to play you this.
(Lullaby)
R: She said that you would remember.
D: Yeah, yeah, I remember.
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6. |
I Remember
05:04
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I Remember - Daughter
I remember
All the places that we went
I remember
All the joy you’d represent
I remember
When your love was heaven sent
I remember
I remember
Every time we’d take the bus
I remember
How you used to make a fuss
I remember
Knowing it was really us
I remember
Couldn’t feel
Couldn’t let myself go through
this ordeal
Now I see
All the time you should’ve been here with me
I remember
It hurts so much but I remember
I remember
I remember
Your gentle touch and I remember
I remember
Now I know
That you never really wanted to go
Can it be
Can we go back to just you and me
(spoken)
You used to bring me orange juice
And I would smile at you
And we would play.
And then you were gone.
Now, are you back?
Where are you?
I can’t see you.
Can I do this?
I don’t know.
I just don’t know.
But I remember
It hurts so much but I remember
Your gentle touch and I remember
The way you loved me I remember
The way I loved you I remember
The day I lost you I remember
The years I missed you I remember
The day I find you I’ll remember
I remember
I remember
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7. |
Rush
04:26
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On a ride
Through the night
Through the sky
Hold on tight
See my life
Left behind
Strangest thing
I don’t mind
Cos it’s a rush
Being here with you
As I learn to trust
Everything you do
Voices in my head
Getting in the way
Listen to my heart
Saying I’m OK
Yes it’s a rush
Being here with you
As I learn to trust
Everything you do
Letting go of all
That I’ve ever known
Chase the waterfall
Spirits having flown
Crystal beam
From the ground
Blinds my eyes
Brings us down
Rushing air
Body numb
Nearly there
Here we come
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8. |
The Pyramid
01:03
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D: But where are we?
R: The pyramid - repository of all the technology remaining on Earth - and the last spaceship. Our way to her is inside.
D: But how do we get inside?
R: Put your hand into the beam.
D: But it’s tech - my father told me it’ll tear me apart!
R: Just trust me.
D: OK…
FX: Electronic surge of energy
D: Aargh - what’s happening?
FX: Door opens.
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9. |
Future Magic
04:41
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Flashing lights have come to woo me
All their colours gently soothe me
My whole being falls asunder
As I open to the wonder
The wonder
The wonder
Such delights I see emerging
Pulsing currents softly surging
Many puzzles I will ponder
Many worlds where I can wander
Can wander
Can wander
Here is the future that I never knew
Here is the darkness that they overthrew
Myriad miracles glistening and new
Can all this magic be true?
And the network has a rhythm
Light refracted through its prism
Let it fill your nervous system
Feel the power of its wisdom
Its wisdom
Its wisdom
Travel through this magic kingdom
Ride the flotsam and the jetsam
Deep inside the inner sanctum
I can hear the sound of freedom
Of freedom
Of freedom
Here is the future that I never knew
Here is the darkness that they overthrew
Myriad miracles glistening and new
Can all this magic be true?
Future magic
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10. |
Come To Me
04:25
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Come outside, we’ll sit
and talk
There’s so much I need to know
If you want to leave my flock
This is not the way to go
I can show you how to live
And I know what you will need
There’s so much I want to give
If you follow I will lead
You don’t have to be the last
There are things you do not know
Seeing you repeat the past
Turning me into your foe
There’s a way we can be friends
There’s a way we could agree
There’s a way to make amends
If you’ll only come to me
Come to me
Now we’re running out of time
Come to me you know you must
In my eyes you’ll see that I’m
I’m the only one to trust
I’ve done nothing that was wrong
You’re the one who brings the shame
Do you want me weak or strong
Can’t you see we’re just the same
Now I’m down upon my knees
If you join me we can pray
I will beg you till I bleed
But you know you have to stay
I can’t turn my back on you
I’m not going to set you free
I’ll do what you want me to
But you need to come to me
Come to me
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11. |
You Never Knew
04:20
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I have loved you all my life
But every time I reached for you
You would gently smile and turn away
Better things to do
Suddenly you’re standing here
Asking me to start anew
What has changed that makes
today the day
I don’t have a clue
I don’t think you ever let
Anyone inside your head
I don’t think you ever heard
Anybody else’s word
I don’t think you ever saw
Just what I was looking for
I don’t think you ever knew
Just how much I needed you
You want to keep my hope denied
And come to me when you are stuck
After all the times that you have lied
You’re out of luck
I can’t call this place my home
It’s time for me to disappear
Leaving through this astral aerodrome
I’m outta here
I don’t think you ever let
Anyone inside your head
I don’t think you ever heard
Anybody else’s word
I don’t think you ever saw
Just what I was looking for
I don’t think you ever knew
Just how much I needed you
You never knew
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12. |
Goodbye Father
01:23
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D: Goodbye father.
F: No - wait - you can’t leave!
D: Is that a laser - are you using tech now?
F: I’m sorry love, but you have to go to sleep.
R: Not so fast!
FX: Laser gun fires.
R: Ow! Quick - grab the controls.
D: But I don’t know how to fly a spaceship!
R: Yes you do! Try and remember.
F: Don’t take her from me!
FX: Laser gun fires twice.
R: Ohhh - I’m blacking out.
D: No, no - don’t leave me to do this on my own - I’ll crash the ship! Oh - the control panel - it’s lighting up! This is happening!
FX: Ship powers up and takes off.
D: Hey, maybe I can do this.
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13. |
Bringing It Back To You
04:12
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I am standing here
Moving through my fear
As I feel these sensations so new
See the stars outside
They’re my only guide but they’re
Bringing it back to you
Through the dead of night
On a lonely flight
In a ship with no pilot or crew
Hear the planets hum
Their galactic drum is
Bringing it back to you
I can see your face
Cross the darkest space
A connection that I always knew
Only you and me
And this melody, feel me
Bringing it back to you
As we walk this way
Passing every day
We’re forgetting the moments are few
Like the accident
That you never meant it’s just
Bringing it back to you
Feel another force
Let it take its course
Realise that we haven’t a clue
All the times we kissed
All the rides we missed
They were bringing it back to you
Coming closer now
And I wonder how
I will travel the last avenue
In the final mile
It’s the moment
I’ll be
Bringing it back to you
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14. |
Through The Veil
04:40
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D: Step through the veil
Now I step through the veil
Oh Mother
You are home
You are holy
Now I have come
To your arms
Time moves slowly
M: Oh Daughter
As my heart feels the old you
I let life go
Though I wish I could hold you
Why did I leave you below
Reasons vanish
All that is here for you now
Is this message
War comes from Mars
And the Earth soon will perish
Here you are safe
And your love
I will cherish
I will cherish
I will cherish
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15. |
The End Of The World
07:06
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There’s a place I was born
Hills and dales weatherworn
But my days there were gone
Much too quickly
Now I watch from afar
On this spurious star
And I know that the scar
Will cut deeply
It’s the end of the world
No more silver and gold
It’s the end of my world so completely
Emigre
Cast away from you
Say goodbye to my love for you all
As the bombs starts to fall
They’re unleashing a ball of confusion
And the dark clouds of dust
Turn my dreams into rust
Any safety was just an illusion
It’s the end of the world
All the tales have been told
It’s the end of my world
So completely
Emigre
Cast away from you
It’s the end of the world
Watch the blackness unfold
It’s the end of the world
Now the last bell has tolled
It’s the end of the world
Feel my heart turning cold
It’s the end of my world so completely
Emigre
Cannot stay
Comes the day
Cast away from you
From you
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Don't Give Up
01:12
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D: So, metalhead, we struggled across the infinite blackness of space to meet a hologram of my dead mother - what was the point of all that?
R: The point was to save you.
D: My home is being obliterated by Martian bombs, my stupid evil parents have annihilated each other and now I’m stranded alone on this dying satellite - how is that saving me?
R: Don’t give up. That’s not what your parents wanted. They never meant to hurt you. They were only human, like me and you.
D: Me and… you?
R: Hang on - let me get this helmet off.
FX: Helmet comes off.
R: They loved you.
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Just Our Best
04:08
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F: When we destroyed the planet that you lived on
We were only trying to do our best
M: When we went at each other with the napalm
We were only trying to do our best
F: And all along you were the one who suffered
But you know we never even guessed
M: While we made war with psychic biohazard
We were only trying to do our best
Just our best
F: When you came we were blessed
It’s true
M: All our love we confessed
To you
F: But the years came to test
Us too
M: And the hate coalesced
And grew
M: So we gave our all
But now you leave
F: And was our family
Just make-believe
M: We hope the stars can take
Your pain away
F: And that you think about
Your folks some day
M: When I nailed your jacket to the table
F: When I told you that your hair looked awful
M: That time I put the dog shit in your bagel
F: When I realised you were completely evil
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Time To Go
05:33
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R: Come
Go with me my friend
We’ll write the tale
The tale that doesn’t end
Bring all your hopes and fears
Watch as life just disappears
Time to go
Time to go
D: Thought I knew it all
Pride and then the fall
Shoulder to the wheel
Nothing left to feel
Time to go
Time to go
R: Be
Be with me and see it through
Know
There’s nothing else for you to do
Look
Far across the sands of time
You
Walking with your hand in mine
Time to go
Time to go
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19. |
Into The Darkness
05:11
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Staring into the abyss
From the highest diving board
Don’t know how it came to this
But all the facts can’t be ignored
It is time to take our chance
Bet the stack and roll the dice
Step out on the floor to dance
And enter hell or paradise
Into the darkness
Into the void
Into the darkness
Post humanoid
Into the darkness
Our blood on the line
Into the darkness
Incarnadine
I don’t have a clue about this stuff
Kinda hoping we will be enough
Got no answers, don’t know what to do
If we die at least I’ll be with you
Sorry I don’t have a plan
But perhaps it’s meant to be
Just how could my tiny brain
Discover mankind’s destiny
See you on the other side
Now the time for words has gone
When I asked the Gods replied
It’s time to meet your fate head on
Into the darkness
Into the void
Are they all out to get you
Are you just paranoid
Don’t look over your shoulder
When you know it’s too late
Now you need to be bolder
Time to accelerate
Do it do it
Into the darkness
Into the void
Into the darkness
Post humanoid
Into the darkness
Our blood on the line
Into the darkness
Incarnadine
Into the darkness
It’s gonna be scary
You ain’t gonna like it
It’s gonna get hairy
You’ve still gotta do it
You can’t be afraid now
I know that you’re with me
But where are we going
I don’t know what I’m doing
But I see you are here with me
And I know we can do
Only this and there’s no
Other way so we’ll try
Till we fail or succeed
Will we know which is which
In the darkness
Here in the darkness
We’re in the darkness
In the darkness
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Fred Deakin London, UK
Fred Deakin was half of the Mercury/Brit nominated band Lemon Jelly who sold over half a million
albums.
In the last decade he has released three albums and produced many large-scale interactive gallery installations and innovative live performances blending music, and technology.
Huzzah! (Yes he has just watched The Great.)
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