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Controlled Environments
03:13
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There is no smell as foul
As of stale air
It will sit in your clothes
And in your hair
Like an infinite resource
Of infinite disheartening knee-falls
There is no sound as harsh
As of static
That can gnaw through your bones
Through your fabric
Like an infinite resource
For infinite disheartening knee-falls
There is no sight like that
Of an airplane
Taking off from the ground
It was built on
Like an infinite number
Of infinite possible outcomes
Waiting to unfold
There, before your eyes
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Blink
01:27
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Everything will be gone
We don't even wake
Everything comes undone
While the ground shakes
I just like the thought of
The end of the world
Seeing what we've built up
Return to dirt
There's not one atom more
Than there was here before
We think we're creators
While we redecorate
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3. |
The Explanatory Gap
02:18
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Where do these white chalk lines come from
That separate us as we run
Around this track
Too short and narrow
We've never melted into one
I doubt it ever has been done
We only rake
We never harrow
We keep our lanes around the track
We look to our sides and back
We run together
Dearest friends
And one can hope
Right till the end
And we can touch
But never blend
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4. |
Hymn
02:04
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I don't want to share your world
I don't need a thing from it
It's hollow and it works so strange
And I don't think I get it
Your world is engulfed in pain
Your world is so young and vain
It's hollow and there's no love in it
And I don't think I get it
And then I see the sun set
Then I see my place in it
And your world is bright and lit
And then I think I get it
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5. |
Life is a Liquid
02:45
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Our lives are like a liquid
Flowing through two separate grooves
One heading for the future
The other for the truth
Both end up in the ocean
One trickles through so steady
The other is spilling over
One stream will make you ready
The other into a rover
Both end up in the ocean
One wakes you in the morning
The other in the night
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6. |
Intermission
01:50
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7. |
Full of Knots
02:06
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A soul full of knots is better
Than no soul at all
A body that rots beats having
No body at all
But my head
Oh this head
Can I have someone else's instead
To simply exist is better
Than not being here
To have all these things
All these sights, all these sounds
All those years
But this head
Oh this head
I would rather have air there instead
A soul full of knots is better
Than no soul at all
A body that rots beats having
No body at all
But this head
Fuck this head!
I would rather have no head instead
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8. |
Peers
02:18
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I don't care for the afterlife
My present is my biggest strife
My peers and all their whimsical ideas
One week it's this, the next it's that
I don't know where to hang my hat
My peers all know exactly where to steer
I am a pale caucasian male
I have no fight, no real travail
I fear my only mirror is my peers
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Schmeers
01:07
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Bodies
02:41
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Bodies on posters in too little clothes
Bodies that fight and bodies gone cold
Bridges for bodies and bodies by sea
Bodies that move in tunnels beneath
Bodies that work and bodies that ache
Young bodies build while older ones break
Bodies in piles and bodies in graves
Bodies that fell for somebody's rage
Body of mine
You carry me well
Body of mine
My shelter
My shell
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11. |
Near Singular Experience
02:32
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Good friends!
The singularity is near
Think hard about the things
That you hold dear
Good friends!
I doubt that we will persevere
When bigger minds start
To get aware
Green leaves!
I hope they'll take good care of you
I hope they'll learn to love you
Like I do
Blue seas!
I sure will miss your smell
I hope they stand in awe
Over your wealth
Great skies!
I love the colours that make
I hope they treasure you
For heaven’s sake
Heartbeats
I held my breath for each of you
I hope they have a breath
To hold too
Good friends!
The singularity is near
Think hard about the things
That you hold dear
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12. |
Going Under
03:00
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Just like so many before me
I know that there's an end for me
And I am no master
I am no king
All of their voices are telling me
How I should live and how I should be
But I am no master
I am no king
But I know where I am going
I am going under
No one is out to correct me now
I have escaped their grip somehow
I am no master
I am no king
I am the wind
I am the rain
I am no one and have no name
I am no master
I am no king
But I know where I am going
I am going under
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13. |
The Limber Real
03:08
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Let me snap my fingers
And see where it might lead
The real can be so limber
And flex to fit your needs
Let me close my eyes
And stick a finger in both ears
When I am deaf and blind
Am I still really here?
And even though I see
That there is something there
I just can’t believe
That there is nothing there
I would never dare to
Completely shut my eyes
How can I be sure that
It won't lead to your demise?
And even though I see
That there is something there
I just can’t believe
That there is nothing there
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14. |
Stripped
03:28
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Strip me of my clothes
And burn all of my things
Let me be the blade
That severs all the strings
Strip me of my systems
Of all of my beliefs
Let me be the salmon
That gives up to the stream
Strip me till I'm gone
And hold me till I'm still
Let me be the mud
That slides down the hill
My skin dissolves
My muscles tear off
My eyes leave their sockets
And open
The world
To me
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EXEC Copenhagen, Denmark
EXEC is the moniker of Danish producer and singer-songwriter Troels Abrahamsen. EXEC features Troels' music stripped down to piano, vocals and raw human emotion.
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