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Hindsight is... 2020
03:36
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At the end of the day
At the end of the road
No longer able
To carry the load
Always true to the cause,
Said all you needed to say
Was it really worth
The price you had to pay?
Wondering how it would have been
Wondering how it could have been
Wondering how it should have been
Hindsight is… 2020
The things you sacrificed –
The pain is all the same
The ones you’ve lost along the way,
Meaningless victories, losing games –
Was it worth the price you had to pay?
Wondering how it would have been
Wondering how it could have been
Wondering how it should have been
Hindsight is… 2020
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Carry the Banner
03:11
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And so now that it’s time
To pass on the torch
Just make sure it will shine
And never scorch
Carry the banner
The cause is what matters
Floodlight heralds the age of darkness
False values, misguided dreams
Stay on your course regardless
Forever against the stream
Carry the banner
The cause is what matters
You’ve got to take a stand
Now, all across the land
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Unseen signs
Unheard calls
Got to right the wrong
No chance to flee from reality
Better find yourself and stop day-dreaming
The truth you blind your eyes to,
All those facts you still ignore –
You can’t deny them anymore
Better find yourself and stop day-dreaming
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The Fire Raisers
02:52
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To another mass deception, we better get wise –
Arsonists have come to town in salesmen’s disguise
We just keep telling ourselves “At least it isn’t here…”
All the more we’ll be frightened as the end will draw near
All cards laid down now, all evidence is there
Still, we’re too gullible and distracted to even care
Accomplice in your own downfall
Accomplice in your own downfall
Let it all burn to the ground
A barrel of petrol, a box of matches
Behold, the door to doom unlatches
An almost unreal sound: the firefighters’ choir
Sings as we watch our homes perish in the fire
Accomplice in your own downfall
Accomplice in your own downfall
Accomplice – too naïve to admit
Accomplice – your own part in it
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Facing the Facts
01:57
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It’s not about you and it’s not about me
It’s not about a system or society
It’s not about what some people might call us, who cares
It’s all about facing the facts and being aware
It’s not about the doctrines that they teach
Unless we set our targets now, they will soon be out of reach
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Loss Breeds Loss
03:13
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Science warns
We’re fatefully close
To the stage of culmination,
The critical point for the collapse
Of terrestrial civilization
Once it’s started
There's no way to turn it back –
A domino effect:
The loss of one species
Will endanger others that depend on it,
The chain is getting wrecked
An accelerating rate,
About to escalate
Until it's far too late
As estimated
What would have taken thousands of years
In a matter of decades will appear
And leave our biosphere
Devastated
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The Ultimate Desertion
04:30
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“Like the world, of which he forms a part, man is governed by natural laws, regular in their course, consistent in their effects, immutable in their essence; and those laws, the common source of good and evil, are not written in the distant stars, or hidden in mysterious codes; inherent in the nature of terrestrial beings, interwoven in their existence, they are at all times and in all places present to man, they act upon his senses, they warn his understanding, and dispense to every action its reward or punishment. Let man then study these laws! Let him comprehend his own nature, and the nature of the beings that surround him, and he will know the regulators of his destiny; the causes of his evils, and the remedies he ought to apply.”
Volney's Ruins: Or, Meditations on the Revolutions of Empires
A secret power animating the universe –
“Gave to fire, motion and activity;
To air, elasticity;
Weight and density to matter”
Feeble work of the creator’s hand
Full of dreams and strife
He owes you nothing
And he gave you life
The world you’ve been placed in
Wasn’t made for you
You’ve only been granted the use of it
All the way through
Turned away from it all
Turned away from it all
Turned away from it all
Why have you?
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Never let it go
Never let it die:
There stands one final truth
In the age of universal lie
We may be the stray dogs
They’re out to clean the streets from
But we are the last ones standing up for it
Marching to our own drum
On and on
Witch hunts and show trials
They are everything
We despise
With all their preconceived
Manipulations and lies
Just let them think they make all the difference
After all, it only makes them look dumb
We’d rather remain the stray dogs
They’re out to clean the streets from
On and on
Witch hunts and show trials
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Wrongful Narrative
02:51
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There must be a language that’s not made of words
And yet understood by everything in the world
There must be a soul that’s hidden all around
And able to speak without making a sound
There surely is a world more complete
And more ancient than ours that we only tend to deplete
Treated as mere resources for human consumption –
There must be a way to unlearn this wrongful assumption,
A notion and narrative that must be put an end to
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10. |
The Final Requiem
03:46
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Note by note…Writing the final requiem…
We always need another reminder
That we don’t own the Earth
We’re not the supreme beings of it
Not owners, only visitors
Times of uncertainty,
Disease and war –
Someday soon we’re not going to hear
Mother Nature sing
No more
At the end of the day
At the end of the road
At the end of all days
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