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Alien Obduction
04:49
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Strange lights in the distance, then they disappear from sight
And secrets held by the powers, just how do they sleep at night?
We’ve no resistance should they be hostile, should they decide to turn
Send out a warning, across the distance and pray that we don’t burn.
And are they hiding in the hills, deep beneath the oceans, elusive in the skies?
Appearing in your dreams or are they just hiding in your mind.
In the early 21st century we still have no concrete evidence, no convincing photography or video footage despite living in a society where every thing is under constant surveillance.
You say they took you in the night time to some “far out” places.
They stood around you but made no sound from their cold grey faces.
And do you think that they’ll come again to manipulate your mind.
I wonder why they don’t appear to the rest of humankind.
So are they hiding in the hills, deep beneath the oceans, elusive in the skies?
Appearing in your dreams or are they just hiding in your mind.
Since the late 1950s, millions of people have claimed they have been taken by extraterrestrial beings, often onboard a craft and include reports of invasive medical procedures.
It has to be asked – why travel lightyears across the universe, spend decades buzzing a planet full of intelligent life and not introduce yourselves to the brightest minds and most creative souls on the planet?
Hundreds of thousands of Americans insure themselves against alien abductions every year. Insurance includes indemnity against alien inflicted pregnancy in both men and women.
The insurance companies are doing very well!
Hiding in the hills, deep beneath the oceans, elusive in the skies?
Appearing in your dreams or are they just hiding in your mind.
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2. |
72 Times Round The Sun
04:29
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Old and past prime
Remembers her time
When she danced for the princes
They were dumbfounded
Who was this child
So pure and wild
The whole court was beguiled.
Every last line
A moment in time
Laughs out at the memories
Of men dumbfounded
That look in their eyes
Hearts are like fires
She’s all they did desire
Oooh the beauty fades away, the colours run
after 72 times round the sun.
Oooh everything fades to grey
In her mind she’s still young
After 72 times round the sun.
Brittle and dry
Face full of lines
Catches her own reflection
She is dumbfounded
Where’d it all go?
Where is life’s glow?
Who would ever know?
Oooh that beauty fades away, the colours run
After 72 times round the sun
Oooh everything fades to grey
In her mind she’s still young
After 72 times round the sun.
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Celebrities!
04:01
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Oh Lord please save us from Celebrities
Every night on my TV set the girl say’s she hopes she’s going to see me again
In what strange world can she see me?
Oh Lord please save us from celebrities!
A guy’s at a famine sown in Senegal is on a million quid a week just for kicking a ball, wants my money for his charity! Oh Lord please save us from celebrities
Oh Lord please save us, Lord please save us, Lord please save us from celebrities
Oh Lord please save us, Lord please save us, Lord please save us from celebrities
A girl tumbles out of a limousine, drunk in the pages of a magazine,
Tells us her drinking is a tragedy! Oh Lord please save us from celebrities!
A flash of inspiration from a flash in the pan,
Sees the flash of camera, shows a flash of pants
Fame’s more important than your dignity! Lord please save us from celebrities
Oh Lord please save us, Lord please save us, Lord please save us from celebrities
Oh Lord please save us, Lord please save us, Lord please save us from celebrities
Eating worms in the Jungle or just dancing on ice
Crying about their ancestors terrible lives
This is what the TV calls reality
Lord please save us from celebrities
They think they matter, they think we care
They think their lives are more than hot air
But I know the world revolves around me
So Lord please make me a celebrity
Don’t you know who I am!
Oh Lord please save us, Lord please save us, Lord please save us from celebrities
Oh Lord please save us, Lord please save us, Lord please save us from celebrities
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4. |
Dark Side
05:31
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There’s things I’ve said, just to make myself look good
Lies I’ve told, ‘cause the truth would hurt too much
Hearts I’ve broken, without a second thought
Words I’ve spoken, and denied when I’ve been caught
There’re things I didn’t do, for which I got the blame
Things I got away with, for which I am ashamed
points I’ve won, on things I didn’t believe
But even Angels Fall…
‘cause this is life, we all have a dark side to hide
and this is life, we all have a dark side to hide…
Behind each light, … a shadow deep and dark
Behind each kiss … a selfish beating heart
Behind each lie… a tiny grain of truth
The world has two poles and each coin has two sides.
Those that pray, whose thoughts are so unkind
And those that preach…. hide a dark and dangerous mind
The smiles they wear, …just masks to hide behind
But even demons fly...
‘cause this is life, we all have a dark side to hide
and this is life, we all have a dark side to hide
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5. |
Light-Years Away
04:22
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Life slipped through my fingers like a kite upon the wind
I kept the world at bay I never let it in
I can’t turn back the clock I can’t change what I am
Though my dreams are strong I can’t hold back the dam
“I’m still calling” Can you hear me?
“I’m still calling” Can you hear my voice come from light years away?
“I’m still calling” Can you feel me?
“I’m still calling” Can you see me though I feel so far away?
There’s no second chances, grab your kite and fly
There’s no easy answers just try and touch the sky
It’s just so easy to find your hopes and dreams destroyed
The world will pass you by and leave you in the void
“I’m still calling” Can you hear me?
“I’m still calling” Can you hear my voice come from light years away?
“I’m still out here” Can you feel me?
“I’m still out here” Can you see me though I feel so far away?
Too little recklessness and too much sense of fear
Too much hesitation, too weak to risk a dare
No point in waiting for the life you want to lead
Go out and make it happen, go out and succeed
“I’m still calling” Can you hear me?
“I’m still calling” Can you hear my voice come from light years away?
“I’m still out here” Can you feel me?
“I’m still out here” Can you see me though I feel so far away?
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6. |
Lost In Space
04:35
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Standing in an ice-age
Feeling like I don’t belong
Wishing I could slowly melt away
You chilled me to the bone
Nothing here to keep me warm
surrounded by the coldness of your heart.
There’s no you and I
Now I’m lost in time.
Floating in an ocean
Drifting on the open waves
Clinging to the driftwood of our lives
There’s no sign of land
Not a soul for miles around
Just the circling sharks to hear my cries
There’s no you and me
Now I’m lost at sea…
Floating in the vacuum way out into space
Drifting through the voids
You took my world away till nothing else remains
Just one more lonely soul
There’s no time and place
Now I’m lost in space
There’s no time and place
Now I’m lost in space
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The Mariana Trench
03:30
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There are things in the dark, deep, deep down.
Down in the Mariana Trench
Bioluminescent, transparent, iridescent
Down in the Mariana Trench
The kraken awaits, the leviathan sleeps
Megaladon hiding in stasis
All the worlds’ nightmares, tentacles and teeth
ready to rip off our faces
They can smell your blood
they can sense your fear.
As the cold and darkness both consume your soul
The dark shadow circling your feet
The fin rising up from the water
The dead black eyes staring you down
And the jaws of the devils daughter
Flailing around, fighting for breath
As something is dragging you down
As the creatures slide past you, clammy and cold
You begin to pray that you’ll drown
They will taste your flesh
They will make you scream
As their grinning teeth tear your soul apart.
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From key tracking software to surveillance cameras
and satellites above the earth
They’ve got your email and your name and number
Your bank account and date of birth
They tell you spying isn’t their intention
They say its only crime prevention
Cause everyone’s guilty, until they’re proven guiltier
B B I W Y Big Brother Is Watching You
B B I W Y Big Brother Is Watching You
Your mobile phone broadcasts all your details
and your emails are all being read
They can watch you through your lap top camera
Even when your battery’s dead
They say they’re only trying to make you safe
If all this interfering makes you chafe
Well you are living, living in a nanny state.
B B I W Y Big Brother Is Watching You
B B I W Y Big Brother Is Watching You
Motions sensors, and bugs in the bedroom
A microphone in your pen
Fingerprints and DNA and retinal scans
They’ve got you and could make you again.
B B I W Y Big Brother Is Watching You
B B I W Y Big Brother Is Watching You
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9. |
Autumn's End
07:26
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The last of the red kites
Pin-wheeling on thermals alone
over ploughed fields
The last of the oak leaves
drifting like snow flakes
past dew-frosted webs
abandoned and torn
A feather, a bone, a shell all alone
Lost among the scattered stones
Here at the Autumn’s end
Here at the Autumn’s end
Old, wise and wanderer
Searching for comforts
of a roaring log fire
out of the rain
Shakes off the water
Remembering summer
And hopes that there’ll be more
At least one more
A shelter, a home, a man all alone
Lost among the scattered folk
Here at Autumn’s end
Here at Autumn’s end
I ran out of breath!
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Cotton Salamander Melbourn, UK
Cotton Salamander is a solo project by Martin Randle (Species, Glowsticks, Van Gogh's Ear) featuring prominent guest
musicians.
Martin is a veteran multi instrumentalist and writer who has worked with Ezio, Paul Richards, Helen Arney, Ray Manzarek & Daryl Reid. He regularly writes music for the BBC and has produced countless up and coming artists, most recently stayvicious.bandcamp.com.
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