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Electropunk
02:20
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Together we'll make it through all of this my friend
Will our lofty perplexity manifest once again?
I've no prophecy it's not policy just an obvious portent
We'll fall often but not the way we've together fallen in
It's all the love I know
It's what I have to show
Learn to let it go
Together we're pushing through to the end my friend
Unbridled confusion rampant destined to ascent
Revelation evades the doubts invade & it's pointless to pretend
We've all fallen but few will fall as deep as this again
Relinquish the controls
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Anachrotrash
04:22
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Energized
And the feel is all deranged
Now we're good for something
Give it all to rage
Several times now
We've seen it's all been staged
The source of our compulsion
Cynical & safe
This spark remedial
Repose & drone
In dark & tedium
The deed is done
A spark remedial
We pose & drone
Unmarked & bleeding
Comes the fortunate son
Anesthetized & oblique
We're out of range
Burning our emotions
Gave it all to rage
No sense of time
In this place of loss embraced
Guileless in hybrid moments
It's our atomic age
Benighted insolvent dreams
We find it along the seams
Refined niche to hold us
Somehow we knew they sold us
Benighted insolvent dreams
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High Lo-fi
02:53
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Wield the plagiarist's edge
Embrace the site
Of the loss
Supplicated referent
Dissolved in bliss
Fascinated by the cost
And we still
Break the seal
Things are more like today
Than they've ever been before
Violent commodity
Now don't you want
What everyone else wants?
Pull back the curtain
Let us see - illuminate
Annihilate it all
And we still
Pay our bills
Things are more like today
Than they've ever been before
Take the deal...
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Keep our enemies close
Hold fire
Until we see the whites
In their eyes
A message beamed from the coast
Encrypted on an unknown host
Parasites
In disguise
On these barricades
We prevaricate
Now it's too late
Effort oblique to the goal
Hide & seek on a storm-swept shoal
Sycophant
Compromised
We blessed the meek as they rose
Losing streak in the coolest clothes
So relevant
And surprised
At the pearly gates
Get our story straight
Now it's too late
As we contemplate
Our empty plates
Now it's too late
Our silence & shade
Can't silence that shake
Now it's too late
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The Retro-Futurist
02:45
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In nineteen seventy-never
Our ties to tradition were severed
Untethered youth struck out
To blaze a path unknown
In nineteen seventy-never
We vowed to stay awake forever
Won't ever backslide
Into habits we've outgrown
With cleaner folds than a designer
Jacking off to a police lineup
You reign in silence
You will never feel safe
Who knew our future was behind us
Punks & pinheads pick through detritus
Shake chains with violence
And you will never be safe no
In nineteen seventy-never
Learn to embrace virtue & terror
Reclaim our share
From parasites we've overthrown
In nineteen seventy-never
Reject imposition of measure
Clerical error
Bureaucratic to the bone
What is the status
Of the status quo?
What is your status?
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Anarchitect Oakland, California
Unrealized futures of an apocryphal past drowning out a misbegotten present. Punk's not dead - it's broken.
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