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Faster Than Light
07:14
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Faster than the speed of man
At the speed of wind
Shall be the speed of mine
Faster than the speed of wind
At the speed of sound
Will be the speed of mine
On the other side of the wind
You’re waiting for me
Faster than the speed of sound
At the speed of the Earth
Is to be the speed of mine
Faster than the speed of the Earth
At the speed of light
Shall be the speed of mine
On the other side of the light
You’re waiting for me
And the speed of dreams
And the speed of mind
Slowly guide me your way
So that I’ll find you again
Beyond the speed of death
And the speed of light,
The speed of life
Will preserve you for me
Faster than light
The velocity of the Earth's rotation at its equator is 460 meters per second. The celestial body of the Earth orbits its single star at the pace of 30 kilometers per second. On the edge of the Orion Arm, revolving around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center, the Solar System wades through the Milky Way at the speed of 220 kilometers per second. Within the galactic Local Group, the Milky Way hurls towards the Andromeda Galaxy with an impetus of 130 kilometers per second. And, 200 million light years away, the Great Attractor is pulling the Virgo Supercluster towards the constellation of Hydra inside Laniakea with a crushing celerity of 1000 kilometers per second. Even beyond the Great Attractor, 650 million light years gone lies the gargantuan Shapley Concentration, behind the Zone of Avoidance, outside the realms of known measurement.
Eventually all and everything will slow down. The deceleration will come to pass, as even the Universe itself is bound to face The Certainty.
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In My Room
02:04
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Here, hand in hand lingering, I saw you
With my old ghost
We stood by the windowpane
Looking out
And beyond
There, in light of a million suns
We'll rejoice with wine and song
At the end of this vast universe
In a free festival
For everyone
You looked outside and laughed
My tale did not ring true
Time caught me then
And blew them ghosts of dawn away
Here I stand,
Shivering
In my room
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Table Mountain Top
03:47
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Woke up beneath a burning sky
Up high, above the trees
Mountains, like mushrooms made of stone
Grow all around
The fall
I now recall the fall
Crash landing on a mushroom side
No life has crept this high
So I am all alone
Below, red flocks of rubies fly
Shrieking into the setting sun
At night, big roaring beasts appear
As fire-eyes
I have got to find a way down
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“Lock the door and kill the light
I have to shun all things bright”
Croaked a voice in moonlit night
“Lock the door and kill the light
You don’t want me in their sight
But you have called and I’ve arrived
“Allow me to make this clear
I’m not a man, but hide your fear
You should know a friend is near
“‘Huff – ai ai – pssh!
Good children hush’
I sing my lullaby
“A cat may look at my green eye
Though even the Queen can’t rule what’s mine
But dairies here do stand their try!
“You can’t make it good with haste
My wisdom’s of those who price their taste,
Who don’t just close their eyes,
See, my digestion, like the House of Lords
Entertains me the most
“‘Huff – ai ai – pssh!’
Bad children hush
I’ll sing you an alibi
“And: all the night sky
And all its dark hidden truths
The Sun, in all its lies,
Is in your might
If you will take me into your heart”
And then,
When I awoke,
All I could see
Was a cat
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5. |
The Livin' Dead
04:33
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Summer
Breathing down on me
I don’t know what to do, ’cause you’re not there
You are sunshine,
You are days of gold
I start, avert, slide right down into a melody
Shivering in my dreams
Stardust falling like a silent rain of leaves,
down with the moonlight
Hiding, making known, the form divine
Stasis over Earth and all the barren sky
No white rainbow on this Bible black day,
Starless in the eye and in the mind
Purple
All the trees are gone
I smile as the comets dance on moonlit sky
Like puppets,
I smile
until the vines that pull me into thy chill hands lie motionless
Porcelain
I've got to break
Clamour
There's a tidal wave
I breathe in the thick of it a box and a cat
We are seaweed
We are mighty sails!
I start, avert,
Slide right down into a solid sleep
Memories of my youth
Be still, listen:
Fa-la-la-la-la-la-laa!
We’ll be free!
Stardust falling, changing, calling
Mountains rolling out to the sea
Stasis over mind and all the might in me
A white rainbow on this Bible black day
When both the eye and the mind should’ve seen
That we’re dead alive for sure
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Skin Diver
04:56
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Egyptian eyes, white skin
A lake for me to dive in
Painted or real, they are yours
And beings of pure light swim across
From your source
I'm born again, for sure
From craving on for more
But now I don't care if I won't die at all
If living is to keep diving in
Egyptian eyes, white skin
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Rainy Dog Day
02:59
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Caught a smile from someone
I should not have caught a smile from
Passed it on to everyone
I passed by on my cold wet way back
Coming home, I found my house
Burnt down to steaming ashes
But I felt warm inside
Though all I had to keep me dry
Was that one smile
You gave me
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8. |
Leaving This Earth
03:43
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The sky
Unsparing with the sunlight,
again,
Is driving me to shade
And thoughts of you, my love
How I never came to you in life
And years went by as I became the man I am now
I write to you farewell
In clouds
Then in stars
Very high
I leave it to the winds of dawn
To bring home, to you
My days on this Earth are growing few
I’m nearly there, but a feeling holds me back:
Why now?
The Sun mars my work at noon
And at night, memories
The rains never clung to me like this
And clouds keep pushing my wings to the ground
Like hands
A thought hammers me:
Could it be?
That the Earth knows my name,
And in fear
It wants me to stay, never to go
My love? Could it be you?
Nowhere to go
No vertigo
I wouldn’t dream of going home
I’m all alone
Everything’s shown
In my old dreams of going home
Landing gear’s off
I’m out of this trough
Never to dream of going home
Air getting thin
I shouldn’t begin
Questioning dreams of going home
Leaving this Earth
I’m done with its dirt
Never to dream of going home
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Yet here we are,
Judging me
Oh, what a drag
And afterwards
A Waterloo
Here, looking out
I see the young lighting smokes
This is the first time they’re alive
No, no, no
Ought to be stars
They’ll never know how rare it is
With all these first times now around
So, so, so
Afraid to live I down the pill
To end a day
Two thousand tiny suicides
Be still and know,
I was so still I couldn’t breathe
Oh, what I knew but I wasn’t allowed to tell
And only in the end it's revealed
Now, honey, I know
That it will be quite mundane
But they wouldn’t know
So we won’t spoil the fun
And who’s around the bend
I don’t wanna go
And stop that show
Of insecurities
In the beginning
It’s more merciful
Than to be
In the know
So until comes he
Who cuts all ties
Suffocates the joy,
Populates the fields of the dead
You will,
Until comes he,
Be free
‘Tis just a fragment of
The Certainty,
The Certainty
The Certainty,
The Certainty
I name thee
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Inshallah
03:15
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I think about, now what’s his name
And the layers of this game in play
Exciting, frightening to the bone
Grinding my brain through hours lone
I raise my eyes
At all the million skies
I seek to recognize
Your face
Inshallah
And meet your gaze
Unabashed
At last
I think about this crooked game
They put on forth, all in your name
How it’s a play I wish no part in
And wonder why you take it in
Side by your side
Oh, if I could let it slide
Come death and hold me, kind,
Unblind,
And, inshallah
I meet your gaze
Unabashed
At last
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Gaspard Oil Sumiainen, Finland
A two-headed demon with five bodies and bi-wings of steel and cloth, Gaspard Oil sings and breathes flame the colour of the midnight sky. Named after the infamous French-Polish opium eater, adventurer and early space travel pioneer of the first half of the 20th century – Gaspard Oil the man – this Finnish band aims to capture & honour the wild spirit and demented creativity of its namesake. ... more
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