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"Pioneers over C"

We left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies,
reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited
Somebody help me I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling down
Into sky, into earth, into sky, into earth
It is so dark around, no life, no hope, no sound
no chance of seeing home again
The universe is on fire, exploding without flame
We are the lost ones; we are the pioneers; we are the lost ones
We are the ones they are going to build a statue for
ten centuries…

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"Killer"

So you live in the bottom of the sea,
and you kill all that come near you.
But you are very lonely,
because all the other fish fear you.

And you crave companionship and someone to call your own;
because for the whole of your life you've been living alone.
On a black day in black month at the black bottom of the sea,
Your mother gave birth to you and died immediately.

'Cos you can't have two killers living in the same pad
and when your mother knew that her time had come
she was really…

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"A Louse is not a Home"

Sometimes it's very scary here; sometimes it's very sad;
sometimes I think I'll disappear; betimes I think I have.
There's a line snaking down my mirror :
splintered glass distorts my face,
and though the light is strong and strange
it can't illuminate the musty corners of this place.
There is a lofty, lonely, Lohengrenic castle in the clouds –
Yes, I draw my murky meanings there,
but seven years' dark luck is just around the corner
and in the shadows lurks the spectre of Despair.
A cracked mirror mid the drapes…

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"The Lie (Bernini's Saint Theresa)"

Genuflection / erection in church.
Sacristy cloth / moth-eaten shroud.
Secret silence / sacred secrets
accumulate dust, aggravate the eye.
Incautious laughter after confession.
Benediction - fictional fear
Hidden faces… Grace is a name,
like Chastity, like Lucifer, like mine.

You took me through the window-stain,
drowned in image, inscence, choir-refrain
and slow ecstasy -
I'd embrace you if I only knew your name…

The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers :
ice-cold statue - rapture divine,
unconscious eyes,
the open mouth,
the wound of love,
the Lie.

You took me, gave me…

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"Arrow"

Stub towers in the distance,
riders cross the blasted moor
against the horizon.
Fickle promises of treaty,
fatal harbingers of war, futile orisons
swirl as one in this flight, this mad chase,
this surge across the marshy mud landscape
until the meaning is forgotten.
Hood masks the eager face, skin stretched and sallow,
headlong into the chilling night, as swift as any arrow.

Feet against the flagstones,
fingers scrabbling at the lock,
craving protection.
'Sanctuary!' croaks a voice,
half-strangled by the shock of its rejection.
Shot the bolt in the wall, rusted the key;
now the echoes…

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"Time For A Change"

Time for a change:
I felt bad, things looked strange.
Home, home on the range…
Yes, it's time for a change.
"Well, young man, when you grow up
what do you want to be?"
"Please, sir, if that's alright
I'd really rather like to learn how to be me."

Switch on the light,
getting late, almost night.
A shilling puts you right,
you can switch off the night.

The world was looking stretched and tight,
it's an overblown balloon.
I've got the feeling something big
has got to happen soon.

Oh, time for a…

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"Curtains"

Well, Tommy woke that morning
With a headfull of rocks
And Sylvia was in shock
The story they'd been faking
Had frozen on their lips
And fallen through the brush of fingertips
And though they packed their bags,
Ready for the road,
The curtains and the bedroom door
Stayed closed
For Sylvia and Tommy
This is a curtain call
They've been running away for years
But pride in flight
Precedes a certain fall
So Tommy rubs his stubble
As if to check his face is there
And Sylvia combs her hair
Just like nothing really happened
They'll…

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"170"

Slapp av, me komme snart igjen
(Me komme snart igjen)
Du vett me får tilstrekkelig med stipend
(Tilstrekkelig med stipend)
Nå går eg inn som frivillig soldat
Når eg går ut, har eg blitt far

Det var kveld og det blei dag og kveld igjen
(det blei dag og kveld igjen)
Eg skreiv brev på brev, men eg fekk aldri brev igjen
(Eg fekk aldri brev igjen)
Et halvt år med skudd og åpne sår
Et halvt år. Herre Gud, tia går så seint!

Takk Gud for sanitetens personal
(Sanitetens personal)
For de syr sammen rekrutt og…

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"The Comet, The Course, The Tail"

They say we are endowed with Free Will
- at least that justifies our need for indecision.
But between our instincts and the lust to kill
we bow our heads in submission.
They say that no man is an island
but then they say our castles are our homes;
it's felt the choice is ours, between peace and violence
…oh, yes, we choose, alone?

While the comet spreads its tail across the sky
it nowhere near defines the course it flies,
nor does it find its own direction.
Though the path of…

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"Wilhelmina"

Willie, what can I say to you to hold true in
your changing life? You've come into a cruel
world : little girls can lose their way in the
growing night —– I hope you'll be alright.
Willie, try to stay a child sometime, for as long
as you feel you can learn. Babies all turn to
people, and people can really be strange : they
change and, changing, bring pain.
Try to treat your parents well because they care,
and what more can you do?
When you find your lovers, be good to them as
you…