burn out bright SWITCHFOOT
a spark ignites in time and space; limping through this human race; you bite and claw your way back home; but you're running the wrong way; the future is a question mark; of kerosene and electric sparks; there's still fire in you yet; yeah there's still fire in you!
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Clarke's First Law of Prediction: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is probably wrong
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the spectator THE BRAVERY
he is a nocturnal always alone; but you'll speak in secret codes; that he has never known; in this world, but not of it; so he watches from above it; a visitor here, this is not home
• I am moved by fancies that are curled
around these images, and cling:
the notion of some infinitely gentle
infinitely suffering thing
. funnyman KT TUNSTALL
funnyman, gotta try to be something wonderful; funnyman, listening to the world turning on its sail; turn it into a brand new universe; funnyman could never be anything else.
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And in the passage from the cradle to the grave we are born, madly dancing / Rushing headlong through the crashing of the days / We run on and on without a backwards glance / We run on and on without a backwards glance
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standing on the threshold of eternity THE SNAKE THE CROSS THE CROWN
eternity is pressed against my eyelids; by brittle fists that i cannot avoid; and though each finger's grip has been relentless; the moments they just keep on slipping by; and i am now aware that i am and always have been at this moment; sadly sitting by the fire and blue waiting for you; and though ive been expecting; i have never quite accepted that
• The time is out of joint: O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right
! scientist THE DANDY WARHOLS
in me the scientist, / always stuck on, always trying this. / i try to live on science alone. / analysis and freaky sensitivity, / we've gotta live on science alone.
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Those words no one had stated bespoke a time we’d all forgot, / memories all jaded by what since the world had wrought. / but since that’s all calmed down now, to the past we’ll toast a cheer, / the things one can’t remember
can’t be the cause of any fear.
last light MATT POND PA
sky hangs heavy in lowest light; as the day slips down past the sun; black and blue in the forest green; shadows are gone, they have run; they have run, they have run, they have run.; as the days last light now is done; in the end we can see perfect endlessness; when we're gone, when we're gone, when we're gone
• awake, arise, or be forever fallen
. orange sky ALEXI MURDOCH
sometimes, sometimes; my mind is too strong to carry on; too strong to carry on; when I am alone; when i've thrown off the weight of this crazy stone; when I've lost all care for the things i own; that's when i miss you, that's when i miss you, that's when i miss you; you who are my home; well i had a dream; i stood beneath an orange sky; yes i had a dream;
i stood beneath an orange sky; with my brother and my sister standing by
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Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars
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electioneering RADIOHEAD
i will stop; i will stop at nothing; say the right things; when electioneering; i trust I can rely on your vote; when I go forwards you go backwards and somewhere we will meet
• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys
. airborne MY ARCHITECTS
rise and take what you want; all of the time or never; 'cause you, you could be unkind; if you weren't right all of the time
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