Listen to Your Leader

Volume one of the neo-retro collection.

Tracklist         

1. The High-Rise in the Sunshine
   
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   LYRICS:

   Their footprints in skylines
   Where lifelines decay
   A honeymoon ended
   And the sky's bullet grey

   The high-rise in the sunshine and cries in the daytime
   Get carried away
   The high-rise in the sunshine and cries in the daytime
   Get carried away, away

   My mind is on preset
   And I'm told I'm someone
   Maybe I'll fly like a missile
   Or just sink like the Sun

   The high-rise in the sunshine and cries in the daytime
   Get carried away
   The high-rise in the sunshine and cries in the daytime
   Get carried away, away

   The high-rise in the sunshine and cries in the daytime
   Get carried away
   The high-rise in the sunshine and cries in the daytime
   Get carried away, away

2. The Loudness of Silence
   
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   LYRICS:

   Am I a souvenir, floating through space and years?
   Emotions come and go, no-one sees what I know

   Clattering people fly, into the star-robbed sky
   Leaving their thoughts at home, find a life shielding hope

   It's you and me and fallacy, the fantasy of silently waking
   You're bold it's true, it's up to you, the world's a cloud
   The silence awakes you now

   Grant me an empty shell, to crawl in to be myself
   Turn off your civil ways, show you're real show your face

   But I'll stare at empty walls, I'm trying hard to recall
   Where is that far-off dream, when was I ever free?

   It's you and me and fallacy, the fantasy of silently waking
   You're bold it's true, it's up to you, the world's a cloud
   The silence awakes you
   It's you and me and fallacy, the fantasy of silently waking
   You're bold it's true, it's up to you, the world's a cloud
   The silence awakes you now

3. The Old Lady’s Rosary
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   LYRICS:

   You're lonely, living lasts too long
   Modern life is no place for you
   And everything is wrong

   Why worry? There's so much you can do
   Just wait for the big sleep to call you
   You'll make tomorrow's news

   But oh, when you're empty, you blow it away
   When life is not on your side, for time you must pray

   There's laughter and maybe they're laughing at you
   Imprisoned, wizened visions of youth
   They're sometimes trapped in you

   You're living, but why you cannot say
   Those rituals, chatshows, slumbers through days
   Will hide your death-warmed face

   But oh, when you're empty, you blow it away
   When life is not on your side, for time you must pray
   But oh, when you're empty, you blow it away
   When life is not on your side, for time you must pray

4. Billy and His Gun
   
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   LYRICS:

   There's people rushing to their windows
   Net curtains twitch to watch the show
   A hero's exit from the scene's marked with oaths as he will flee
   Leaving threats with pride he runs
   Cos Billy's got a gun

   Make plans of plans resocialise him
   Hug him and make him use his skills
   Give him a useless HND in stacking shelves or making tea
   But mother's angel finds his fun
   When it's just Billy and his gun

   BILLY GO! BILLY RUN! BILLY GO! BILLY RUN!

   Poor Billy's found a new profession
   Picking up leaves to earn a crust
   And ashes, dust and brimstone cry, he knows his numbers up he lies
   Waiting for what he'll become
   It's just Billy and his gun

5. The Chemical Times
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   LYRICS:

   Smells like a Monday, asleep on a train, sign out from senses play games
   Everyone's happy, no islands no strays, tuned in to emptiness pays

   Don't ever cry, don't ever cry

   Fading faces fade to one in the earth and sky and Sun
   The chemical times, chemicals tie beautiful lives beautiful lies
   As the starlight strikes a pose over rows of council homes
   The chemical times, chemicals tie beautiful lives beautiful lies

   Smileaholics jump into screens, where everyone's happy it seems
   Feeling empowered in powders of dreams, consciously floating downstream

   Don't ever cry, don't ever cry

   From the everlasting shame to the park bench with your name
   The chemical times, chemicals tie beautiful lives, beautiful lies
   Seen an island in the Sun to a breeze they breathe as one
   The chemical times, chemicals tie beautiful lives, beautiful lies

   Fading faces fade to one in the earth and sky and Sun
   The chemical times, chemicals tie beautiful lives, beautiful lies
   Seen an island in the Sun to a breeze they breathe as one
   Incredible times, the chemical times, beautiful lives, beautiful lies

6. Battles and Wastelands
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   LYRICS:

   Deep magical trees murmuring breeze, carry me home
   Tell stories of hope, hope there's a light

   Tight energy thieves laying their wreaths outside unmarked doors
   A war is just a recourse to show that we're bored

   Battles and wastelands, battles and wastelands in me
   Magical tree where nobody grieves the island, I see
   Battles and wastelands, battles and wastelands in me
   Magical tree where nobody grieves, the island I see is in me

   Poor tourist you're lost you're just a cost to average man
   A plan leads to a plan and you're told that you can

   You can be just who you want be what you feel, be someone real
   Climb high to excess, and you'll be a success

   Battles and wastelands, battles and wastelands in me
   Magical tree where nobody grieves the island, I see
   Battles and wastelands, battles and wastelands in me
   Magical tree where nobody grieves, the island I see is in me

   Battles and wastelands, battles and wastelands in me
   Magical tree where nobody grieves the island, I see
   Battles and wastelands, battles and wastelands in me
   Magical tree where nobody grieves, the island I see is in me

7. Cold November
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   LYRICS:

   Wasting my time, drinking corked wine
   All of our sorrows collide
   Trying to remember cold November
   Try as we may to hold time

   You're composed calmed, released, harmed
   Charmed by a day lost at sea
   But do you remember cold November?
   Just close your eyes and you'll see

   That I'm just a no-man to your sublime silence
   Foreign lands await for your sign
   Now I'm just a nomad as I wade through silence
   Far away and not quite in time

   Wasting my time, disgracing our minds
   Adrift on two parallel lines
   But do you remember cold November?
   Fading its way out of time

   I see déjà vu, asleep I see you
   An image of sketches I rue
   Those flickering embers, cold November
   Watching a dream slip from view
   While there's no news

8. Bullet Man
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   LYRICS:

   There's a world inside his head
   Paranoid and running scared
   But bullet man, don't waste your time on me

   Panic rooms electric chairs
   Make him calm and make him fair
   But bullet man don't waste your time on me

   Let him charm, don't let him see
   The bullet man's a light relief
   On the screen he'll never go away, away

   Someone said he can't find peace
   The winds of change were just a breeze
   But bullet man don't waste your time on me

   Innocence is not his way
   The penance found in killing bays
   Hope and prayer won't make him go away, away, away, away

   So close your eyes and close your ears
   Stick around and love your fears
   But bullet man don't waste your time on me, don't waste your time on me,
   Don't waste your time on me

9. Domino Effect
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   LYRICS:

   Superman's cracked his head
   Fully clothed and snores in bed
   Empty bottles battling for space here

   Our hero lies can't see the Sun
   It's wandering off to spy on someone
   The heroes of the elsewhere aren't around here

   But he could be singing this song
   But his mind has gone, will he sing along
   But he could be singing this song
   But he shot his load, domino, domino

   A pitbull barks throughout the night
   But no-one stirs nor turns on the light
   The tv's buzzing out among the ringtones

   There's the sound of angels in his ears
   Calling out another man's fears
   Masturbates from nine-to-five on weekdays

   But he could be singing this song
   But his mind has gone, will he sing along
   But he could be singing this song
   But he shot his load, domino, domino

   But he could be singing this song
   But his mind has gone, will he sing along
   But he should be singing this song
   But he shot his load, domino, domino

10. Choices Chosen
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    LYRICS:

    Driver's in the backseat cranking up the heat
    Passengers with free rides oozing history
    Barking out an order for the underclass
    Get this monster moving ‘cos I cannot be arsed
    But driver can you see them can you feel the noise?
    And are you just a failure of choice?

    Why'd you take a chance on what was bound to fail
    All that speculation's landed you in jail
    Bullish bearish boorish words that mean nothing
    You're trading in your wife and your neighbours start to swing
    But driver does it kill you knowing that you're shunned
    When the chosen one's say “you're choice is chosen for you”.

    Feeding them on popstars nutrition in soaps
    Greedy little jumped up apparatchiks joke
    How his life is easy when the autopilot's on
    You're selling mines for fortunes when you bought them for a song
    See the engine driver's knuckles start to bleed
    Maybe he'll take heed that

    You're choice is chosen for you

11. The Sandman
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    LYRICS:

    Sandman sprinkle your sand
    Send me away from this land
    Century's gone
    Battle's been won
    But mostly my life's out of hand

    Sandman shut off this world
    Maybe someday I'll be good
    Will you help me
    Sink into sleep
    Away from the cruel mockingbirds

    Sandman come back tonight, in my dreams there'll be someone by my side
    Sandman end all this pain, as my mind spins across the milkyway

    Paper bag people don't care
    Gasping my last breath of air
    The sandman found peace
    In some far-off dream
    And I don't have to be to just be

    Sandman come back tonight, in my dreams there'll be someone by my side
    Sandman end all the pain, while my mind spins across the milkyway

    Sandman come back tonight, in my dreams there'll be someone by my side
    Sandman end all my pain while my mind spins across the milkyway
    Sandman come back tonight, in my dreams there'll be someone by my side
    Sandman end all my pain, while my mind spins across the milkyway

12. The Chocolate Sea
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    LYRICS:

    Rooms filled with smiles foretelling doom
    Where the guru shows his moves

    Someday when he sees shadows of graves
    In her face he will be saved

    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND
    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND

    Talk compare the worst things that they'd done
    Till they saw the rising Sun

    She sank into reverie, he'd seen
    There was no place that she'd been

    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND
    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND

    Drift as the chocolate sea's ablaze
    Will the moon return my gaze

    The snow makes him quiver, shake and fall
    But it's magic traps us all

    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND
    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND
    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND
    SOMETIME YOU WILL FIND HOW TO OPEN UP YOUR LITTLE MIND