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No Place in Time
04:26
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Staring at the walls
In this place you don’t pay for the view
No place in time
No place is mine
Some of the paper has come off
The screen makes for a window too
No place in time
No place is mine
Violence and guns
Don’t answer the door
Out on the street
The unholiest war
The lights gave out
I’ll wire the next installment soon
No place is mine
No place in time
Out on the street
They ransacked a store
Billboards as vistas
The ever closed door
Remarkable progress
That’s what I’m told
And on it goes
I guess it shows
I am let go, why do you ask
Live alone and you don’t answer
I am let go, no need to talk
Live alone and you don’t answer
I am let go, what’s there to ask
Live alone and you don’t answer
I am let go, no need to ask
Live alone and you don’t answer
I’m let go, why do you ask?
Let it go, there ain’t no answer
Gotta let go, a burdensome task
Fed up by it all
Billboards as vistas
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My Ambition
04:00
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My ambition
Holding all the cards
Acquiring all the necessary parts
My ambition
Connecting all the dots
Unravel threads of loyalty and loss
So I got a head start
The pillars on which we stand
So it took some guidance
Everybody needs a hand
Roll with the big boys
It is who you are
Now the grind is paying off
No room to rise but up
You’re going it alone
Making use of all you own
Don’t ask yourself
Towards what goal?
No room to rise but up
Buy the future
Buy the future
Bye future
Buy the future
Bye Bye
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With bags full of cash, nothing to lose
This new fad I got into
My eyes on the prize
Pave the way for the golden lies
The influencer, ads in disguise
What a bullshit enterprise
So I rob myself at a quarter to nine
It’s all the rage, why don’t you buy
Our drug of choice, in endless supply?
It is a rollercoaster ride
The perfect place to hide
I’m pretty impressed by your telephone
I’m pretty impressed by my telephone
I’m pretty impressed, I’m pretty impressed, I’m so impressed
How bright our minds, it’s a science you know
To sell the stuff you don’t need for the house you can’t afford
Serve the dark lord
In our down pay paradise
The perfect place to hide
Day time televised
Profoundly satisfied
Until the money’s tight
The perfect place
The perfect place to hide
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4. |
Decent People
03:32
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Don’t know what we’re going for
We will mess around, the rest is unsure
There’s no reason to it all
‘Cause we know we can, it means we’ll have to
And we’re glorious
Whenever we pull through
It looks like we’ve won, for all we know
It looks like we’ve won
Some may push against the tide
But they’re just passengers, along for the ride
I don’t dare to hope for more
What can we do that’s credible?
I don’t aspire anymore
And we’re glorious
Whenever we pull through
It looks like we’ve won for all we know
When the deed is done
It’s the story that we grow
We’re buried and gone before you know
No, we’re decent people
No, half decent people
And we’re glorious
Whenever we pull through
It looks like we’ve won for all we know
We’re decent people
Half decent people
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5. |
Human Capital
03:45
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Monday morning
And I wake to the beep
Don’t care for breakfast
But the coffee can't keep
Modern commuting
Our jugular vein
Ever forward we’re moving
Take a seat on the train
By cost reduction
We’ll raise revenue
Outsource production
I don’t care where to
Incentivize impact
Evolve and exploit
It’s all fair game
As long as we grow
Tuesday morning
And I wake from my sleep
Don’t care for breakfast
But the coffee can’t keep
Modern commuting
Ever forward we’re moving
For our growing pollution
It’s a win-win solution
It’s no longer an option
It’s a manifest gain
Return on investment
Take a seat on the train
It’s a win-win solution
No matter the cost
It’s all fair game
One you’ve already lost
Wednesday morning
And the coffee can’t keep
by offshoring labour
we’re keeping it cheap
User centric sustainable growth
It’s a seamless transition
For expansionist goals
Forge and foster
Generate growth
Embrace the vision
Through a corporate scope
Outrun competition
Through brand recognition
It’s all fair game
Don’t consider the cost
Thursday morning
Friday morning
It’s a win-win solution
It’s all fair game
Take a seat on the train
Embrace the vision
Embrace the vision
No matter the cost
No matter the cost
No matter the cost
Embrace the vision
No matter the cost
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Alone, you climb the mountain
Pull the vivid from the grey
You wear it all around you
It’s the daily price you pay
When nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same
You were used to being on top
Raised a home on single pay
But nowadays you feel you’re barely getting by
It seems no one can explain
Why nothing stays the same
Nothing stays the same
Unless you stay the same
No I’m not gonna lie
These things are bigger than your life
I’m not gonna lie
There’s no end to the daily strife
I’m not gonna lie
These things are bigger than your life
A magnificent lie
And we strain ourselves to reach the sky
We strain ourselves
Nothing stays the same
Unless you stay the same
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7. |
The Midas Touch
04:51
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Sway with flair
Look as if you really care
The game you play
How you always seem to find a way
A friendly smile
A friendly face
The lightest touch invaluable
And you want more
What’s your cause?
Without one you’re just here for the applause
From grace, you fall
There comes a time, the final curtain call
A friendly smile
A friendly face
Your Midas touch invaluable
That you adore
And you want more
You forgot
It’s not enough
Would you die of shame?
This hole, this hole you dug yourself
And you want more
And even more
And even
You let yourself go
We heard enough
We had enough
You went too far
You let yourself go
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8. |
Elections
03:41
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Why don't you learn?
Silly boy
Foolish boy
Do the devil’s work
Don’t be absurd
It’s not a lie
To justify
Words are only words
I only serve to please you
Common truth can’t die
I Promise I won't compromise
Won’t turn a blind eye
Don’t you worry ‘bout projections
You know the time is right
Exorcize these shadows from your mind
I can have no apprehensions
Alone I dare to cry
Alone I dare to cry
I only serve to heed you
Common truth can’t die
At least I say what we all think
I won’t turn a blind eye
Common truth won’t die
Pay no heed to misconceptions
We can wait on those reflections
There’s no time for your objections
We are rigging these elections
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9. |
Go On
03:01
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You know you work around the clock
Don’t even know just what it’s for
It’s what you need, it is a job
Go on, go on, go on
You are an ass with a degree
You’re even working in your sleep
You’re none the richer when you wake
Go on, go on, go on
Go on
Another hour, another lost
Give me a meaning or a cause
Some kind of abstract thing to cling to
That speaks straight to the heart
Go on
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You can’t spare a thought for anyone
“My Truth, my own truth
And nothing but my truth”
You’re free, independent, liberal
The facts you choose are trivial
Go on and deceive yourself
So you won’t have to change
Say they went behind your back
And rob us all of the gains
You’re wrong
Shroud your selfish petty needs
In a fight for the common cause
You keep whining like a child
There’s nothing that could please you
You’re wrong
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11. |
The Great Divide
06:26
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What we held close
We tore it all to pieces
The end, oh the end
We take our final steps, the staircase spirals down ever down
And even though
Time will grind our shells to pieces
The end, oh the end
I feel that I still have to reach for something I’m meant to do
Our kingdom came
And fell without a sound
The end, oh the end
In our bloom we set the wheels in motion long before the reins were found
We’re left to write
An ode; a beautiful surrender
To the end, oh the end
At least we’ll die in splendor, when we’ll cross the great divide
We’ll wave white flags
Backed by hollow pledges
The end of the end
The die was cast, the outcome rigged by those who came before us
We’ll drink and laugh
We’ll drown, we’ll drown ourselves in pleasure
Pretend ‘till the end
We drained and colonized the future, now there’s nowhere left to go
Now the love is gone
It slipped away from us
Watch and go
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Mixing dark synths and electronics with post-punk influences, Silent Runners made a name for themselves on stage with
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