The Legend of Legends

Volume two of the neo-retro collection.

Tracklist         

1. You can go to hell
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   LYRICS:

   Can you hear a rocket? Has the bullet dropped?
   Is the last life flashing? Take a pill and rot

   BUT YOU CAN STICK YOUR FLAGS AND ANTHEMS
   YOU CAN WHOOP AND YELL
   TAKE THE FREEDOM THAT YOU’RE TRYING TO FEED ME
   YOU CAN GO TO HELL

   Are you patriotic? Do you stand as one?
   Do you feel neurotic? Or just alien?

   BUT YOU CAN STICK YOUR FLAGS AND ANTHEMS
   YOU CAN WHOOP AND YELL
   TAKE THE FREEDOM THAT YOU’RE TRYING TO FEED ME
   YOU CAN GO TO HELL

   Can you be more civil – learn to see what’s right
   Enemies are evil – better stand and fight
   Wage a war on terror – wage a war on sin
   Stage a war on telly – let me know who wins

   STICK YOUR FLAGS AND ANTHEMS YOU CAN WHOOP AND YELL
   TAKE THE FREEDOM THAT YOU’RE TRYING TO FEED ME YOU CAN GO TO HELL
   WELL YOU CAN STICK YOUR FLAGS AND ANTHEMS YOU CAN WHOOP AND YELL
   TAKE THE FREEDOM THAT YOU’RE TRYING TO FEED ME YOU CAN GO TO HELL

2. The Zetetic Astronomers (Feat. the Lone Gunman)
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   LYRICS:

   There’s no globe the sun is near
   Believe what you believe in but the answer’s here
   We’re motionless the earth is flat
   And if you see a distant lighthouse can you answer how’s that?

   Gravity is just a tool and science keeps you grounded
   But don’t be a fool
   You know the world’s deceived except the few
   Can you hear the round-Earth sceptics calling out for you

   They say don’t walk too far or you will drop
   F-f-falling through the cosmos so you’d better stop
   Because the world is flat and that’s that, say
   That Australia aint down under, it’s a bike ride away. Hey!

   The movie blonde, the chief the King,
   The leader hanging lifeless, you must stop and think
   Just close your eyes and find the truth
   Or those aliens and those masons they will come for you

   They say don’t walk too far or you will drop
   F-f-falling through the cosmos so you’d better stop
   Because the world is flat and that’s that, say
   That Australia aint down under, it’s a bike ride away. Hey!

   A syndicate a smoking man
   Send explosions under oceans can you read their plan?
   That plane that crashed those bodies lost
   They define it on ‘their’ mission as “collateral cost”!

   CHORUS
   WE’RE ZETETIC ASTRONOMERS, WE’RE ZETETIC ASTRONOMERS
   WE’RE ZETETIC ASTRONOMERS, WE’RE ZETETIC ASTRONOMERS (well I’m the Lone Gunman)

3. The on the Fence Offence
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   LYRICS:

   Are you feeling up there’s a smiler in the news
   A quirky little throwback with her lover’s name tattooed
   She can nod, bow, kowtow, wow! If she works real hard she can be a star right now
   
   There are stars on every street, in every pokey household in the workplace
   In your wildest dreams
   You can eat bread, watch games, die
   When you try to break the programme watch your life become a light

   Your whole life, makes no sense
   Everything you do and did caused no offense
   Because your whole life is on the fence
   And everything you do and did caused no offence now

   Poor girl the crooning fool – her secret’s in a paper
   Selling romps and drunken capers
   Watch the world stop, catch your breath, stretch your legs
   Try and delegate your regrets

   ‘Cos your led and fed and lost and crossed
   The hostages surround you first they gagged and then they banned you
   Now your tongue-tied, your time’s gone by
   The God of Silent things says the final bell must ring

   CHORUS

   Spent your whole life on your back
   You’re never to be seen so you’ll never go back
   You spent your whole life on your back
   You’re never to be seen so you’ll never go back…

   CHORUS

4. Sun Shines On
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   LYRICS:

   Somebody’s sky talks to her
   Somebody’s future’s told
   Nobody’s lost, just resigned
   And am I in time?

   Copycat muse and déjà-vus
   Calling your crop to move
   Out in parade lined in grades
   And maybe you’re saved

   Sun shines on, shine on
   Sun shines on, shine on,
   Sun shines on shine on

   Repeat play, replay

   Sun shines on, shine on
   Sun shines on, shine on, Sun shines on
   Shine on

   Repeat play, replay, erase

   Remedy now, the memory
   Of who you once were last night
   That heavenly brow, that arch that frown
   And maybe we’ll drown

   CHORUS

5. The Search for Sadness
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   LYRICS:

   The winter’s freshness turns to rain
   A windswept summer carries names
   To distant shores where naked no-ones lie
   A silhouette through windowpanes
   A harlot feeds her shame
   The city’s stars are narrowed hardened eyes

   Though the seasons will change there’s a mask on your face
   Hiding sadness, hiding anger, hiding pain
   All the seasons must change but for you they’re the same
   There’s the anger, there’s the hours there’s the pain

   The search for misery goes on
   In peace the spectre of the bomb
   A melancholic melody resounds
   Borders come and borders fall
   But you’re the one who’s building walls
   And every little whisper’s like a call

   CHORUS

   Take a chance and find your station
   Take your seat and reservation
   Take a chance and find your station
   Take a chance on now...

6. A Legend of a Legend
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   LYRICS:

   The Friday feeling being wasted losing everything you lacked
   You’re looking leaner, meaner, tougher looking like a real cool cat
   Taking bets on silent killers perking up your empty heart
   The second hand is motionless I like to watch you fall apart

   You see a parody and parallel to everything you felt
   Where all the spiritual and dutiful will offer up their help
   They’re waving crosses, beads and bibles saying how your life could be
   Disbelieving in your reasons disbelief in what you see

   Cut! but you don’t bleed

   Now, there’s a rocket in your pocket, seen an effect but no cause
   And all the energy in vengeance sees you opening old sores
   The world of jokers, brokers, mockers say you’re rotten to the skin
   And all those bones that creak below it sign confessions of their sins

   Now there’s a legend of a legend and a classic being made
   But all the legend’s are just legends and the classics seem to fade
   You see the second hand rotating like a turbine in a gale
   Say goodbye to yester-morrow where the challengers all failed

   A legend of a legend never fails

7. All That Remains
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   LYRICS:

   All that you were is all that I was
   And all of the terror from errors I caused
   All of the hate is all that remains
   With conflict and contempt and conscience untamed

   All of the damned and all of the dazed
   Are making a stand are you showing the way?
   And all of this light, will it ever fade?
   As the hunched, paunchy punch drunk devour then decay

   WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

   All that I was and all that you were
   I thought I had purpose but now I’m unsure
   And all that remains and all that I meant
   Is only a name others came but mine went

   WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

8. We’re Glad That You Came
   
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   LYRICS:

   Forces of good, make me feel numb
   Powdered-up messiahs go beat your drum
   It’s making me deaf through channels, benign
   Panels of speakers desecrate my mind

   “How do you feel”? a hologram said
   Better and better with the off switch pressed
   There’s hopefuls in hordes, for now they’re adored
   But hounded tomorrow, sing

   It’s lucky you came when you came
   And they knew you would come when you came
   And they’re glad that you came when you came
   But nobody knows you by name

   So when did it start and when will it end?
   Cos when you’re the clique down here you must pretend
   The pap and the pop, the puppets all drop
   A blank manifesto leads the empty crocks

   So learn to revise and learn to revere
   The leader among us is your friend your peer
   Forever the twain shall meet when the blind
   Deaf, dumb among us sing

   It’s lucky you came when you came
   And they knew you would come when you came
   And they’re glad that you came when you came
   But nobody knows you by name

9. Blackguard Soul
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   LYRICS:

   It’s time to be erased, just hide your well-worn face
   Everything’s wrong, when all words have gone

   There’s metal in the sky and weapons in your eyes
   Everything’s wrong, when all words have gone

   BLACKGUARD SOUL WON’T YOU GO
   YOUR WORD LEAVES ME COLD
   BLACKGUARD SOUL WON’T YOU GO WON’T YOU GO

   Fake a smile don’t cry and see another life
   Where everyone’s gone and nothing is wrong

   The lemmings dance ahead you smile and mock the dead
   And everything’s wrong when all words have gone

   BLACKGUARD SOUL WON’T YOU GO? YOUR WORD LEAVES ME COLD
   BLACKGUARD SOUL WON’T YOU GO WON’T YOU GO?
   BLACKGUARD SOUL WON’T YOU GO? YOUR WORD LEAVES ME COLD
   SO BLACKGUARD SOUL WON’T YOU GO WON’T YOU GO
   SO WON’T YOU GO?

   CHORUS

   The tunnels all you’ll see, your friends and enemies
   Sing everyday songs of how we were wrong
   And everything’s wrong when all words have gone

10. A Home for the Brave
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    LYRICS:

    Fire in your sleep’s colder, you preach
    You see through allies see fields in your mind

    The world spins and weeps for those words you won’t keep
    The galaxy sleeps you are fallen and weak

    There’s a clock there’s a grave
    There’s a home for the brave
    There’s a tree there’s a spire
    Where’s the funeral pyre?

    Those names on a page shrivel and age
    When all that you meant was borrowed and spent

    The world spins you weep for those words you won’t keep
    Your gallantry sleeps when you fall you are weak

    There’s a clock, there’s a grave
    There’s a home for the brave
    There’s a tree there’s a spire
    But no funeral pyre
    There’s a clock, there’s a grave
    There’s a home for the brave
    There’s a tree there’s a spire
    But no funeral pyre

11. Vincent Price
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    LYRICS:

    Bar brawls cheap thrills photos
    Updates on a screen
    Streams of consciousness in a submarine

    Yellow-bellied monkeys
    Objects placed somewhere
    Vincent’s price is not so high so it seems

    Zen-like inside, outside go blind
    Make this go away
    Chinese smiles a snail sprints miles
    To make his getaway

    Yoko says she loves me
    She mends my cups and plates
    Sigmund spies as mermaids fall out of space

    Reading dictionaries backwards
    Describing the letter ‘A’
    And everything you learnt it was so passé

    CHORUS

12. Calling out for More
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    LYRICS:

    Nothing in your garden all the plants have gone to seed
    Ravaged and you’re savaged by the socially diseased
    Release all the zombies go and join their evening show
    Dancing to the rhythm of a distant radio

    All the animals and vegetables are miserable and calling out for more
    Show you’re able and you’re stable show you’re capable of calling out for more

    Turn into a hippie meditating in Tibet
    Your pupils are dilating as you see what you won’t get
    With a little perseverance an exchange of pleasantries
    Redefining what you wanted redefine necessity

    CHORUS

    The cuckold and the scolded growing older in their bliss
    The gatekeeper is calling as they notice an abyss
    Their kisses taste of sorrow as they wallow one last time
    Saying goodbye to tomorrow and farewell to what was mine

    All the animals and vegetables are miserable and calling out for more
    Show you’re able and you’re stable show you’re capable of calling out for more
    Hear the blackbird singing and the brass band playing out for more
    Show you’re able and you’re stable show you’re capable of calling out for more
    Calling out for more c-c- calling out for more

13. The Unicorn
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    LYRICS:

    Letters fly through space there’s no more human race
    Only emptiness

    I won’t go back again, there’s no more trusting them
    Are you empty now?

    But someday you will rise
    On the day the unicorn died

    Trouble found it’s way
    It brought me endless shame
    Now I’m happier

    On my little cloud and on my meager pay
    Visiting your page

    But someday you will rise
    On the day the unicorn died

    But someday you will rise
    On the day the unicorn died
    On the day the unicorn died
    On the day the unicorn died