1. |
The One That Lived
01:58
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It’s not enough
It’s not enough
It’s not enough
Just an answered question
Just a dance of light
Just a dream in motion
Just a journey into night
Just a memory of desire
Just a play for time
Just a roll of the dice for the mark inside
It’s not enough
It’s not enough
It’s not enough
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2. |
Everybody Knows
05:20
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Where do you go
With your pain?
Holding it tightly
To your chest
Resolved to keep
Its memory alive
A web of tensions
Spread through your breath
And you grow around them
As you move
Should be so easy to let go
Thought it would be easy to let go
Take the medicine you paid for
And wash it all down
It doesn’t matter if it’s bitter
You know need it now
You try to hide the ideations
As they manipulate your limbs
And fold you inwards and over
And wrap you up from within
There’s no pretence left in your gestures
There’s no agency at all
A puppet gone looking for its master
To come take over the controls
And you want it all to be over
You try and hide the tears that flow
It doesn’t matter if they show
Everybody knows
You wanted it all to be over
You kept trying to let go
Well you can let your tears flow
Everybody knows
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3. |
Drowner
03:56
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Laying out the cards to see what’s real
But shying away from damage
Pictures of towers falling
Just a sleight of a hand to make you feel
Looking to the horizon
I think the water's rising
Is there something there to fear?
Tie my hands to the mast and plug your ears
And you won’t hear the sirens sing
I think they’re drawing nearer
Saw you at the barricades again
Singing to raise our spirits
Over a hail of bullets
And hiding in the warmth of shared beliefs
Away from the storm that’s coming
I think the car's still running
Was there something there to fear?
Tie my hands to the mast and plug your ears
And you won’t hear the sirens sing
I think I feel them closing in
Maybe I want to let them
Come closer
And let them wash over me
Come closer
A let their voices burrow deep
Just to let the feeling
Come decide the road I take
As the waters hold me down
And the waves begin to break
I hear the sirens coming
I hear the sirens coming
Along a dark horizon
I hear the sirens coming
I hear the sirens coming
But it’s not the weight of the water
No, it’s the lack of air
Pulling the words from your body
Into a poetry of fear
And they control your vision
Until there’s nothing left to see
Just the static flickering
Of an electrical sea
Cutting into all your wonder
And weaponising your dreams
Into a golden nightmare
That keeps ambition from your reach
And the waves keep breaking
And the sky ‘comes overcast
And the sirens call out to you
As you hold on to the mast
Hold fast
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4. |
Lexicon Fever
03:32
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I felt desire and I followed
Moving away
Running away from home
I recalled a lie that I’d been told
And it pulled me under
Away from the charms of the world
Try to find the words that are left to speak
As you hide the secrets that you keep
I felt too many voices within me
All talking over
Wounded and open again
Scattering their thoughts all around me
Too late to wonder
What they all could have been
And you tried to starve the fever
Distort the function of its grammar
But you could never find an answer
To make any sense
To make any sense of it
Tried to make sense of it
Tried to make sense of it
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5. |
Shell Games
05:31
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Don’t you see the signs?
There’s nothing between the lines
Perhaps it’s better if you don’t find
If you don’t find out
There was a point that the balance tipped
A slow tilting coming over it
Without a sound, the circuits tripped
Applying wisdom to a game of chance
You held experience in disregard
But this time you just might be in luck
Why don’t you pick another card?
But didn’t you see the signs?
What if there’s nothing between the lines?
Perhaps it’s better if you don’t find
what you always want to find
This one’s a sure thing
I’m going all in
I know it’s mine this time
I can feel it down the line
I know it’s mine this time
I can feel it
This one’s mine
Think I’m in luck this time
I think I see the trick
This time I’m going to win
It’s not so easy to make your escape
When shattered glass still reflects your face
You played your part, so take your place
A message flashing on every screen
Distracting you from the periphery
You made your choice and we will see
Exactly what we want to see
Vai ficar a ver navios
Think I’m in luck this time
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6. |
Crossings
04:08
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I think the war started yesterday
Carried across the time zones
Captured in static motion
Scattered images you'll hold to you now
So you can identify them
A trail for their ghosts to follow
But is this what it seems
Feels like a memory to me
Something woken from a dream
Or was it another picture
Collecting the stones in your shoes
The earth tries to pull you closer
Like you have betrayed your author
Taking you along tracks hidden from view
Trying to hear the words spoken
A hand on your shoulder
But are things what they seem
Feels like a memory to me
A whispered voice from a dream saying
Leave your charms as you wait for the crossing lights
Leave your charms as you wait for the crossing lights
Leave your charms as you wait for the crossing lights
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7. |
Poisoner
05:17
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You drank the sun down into the moon
Until your dreams began to drown you
Was it a poison that you consumed
Now it consumes and it consumes
A wound you found gilded with wisdom
There’s always a price for the gifts you’ve been given
And now the cost of your decisions
It must be weighed
Be brought to the light of day
And there’s a shifting pressure
Run through the room
And there’s an invocation
Caught in my throat
Like a river swallowed
By the mouth of the sea
I hear the sound of her wings
Slowly enfolding me
As the body disappears
The words escape
Won’t you tell me how it feels?
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8. |
The Spinners
05:45
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I passed you on the way
looking over from
moving windows you
turned your eyes away
lost in memories of
fading tenderness
I chased the dogs away
hiding in our room as
they cried out for food and
tried to make you stay
Watched the night draw in
from an empty bed
And there was nothing to say
And there was nothing to do
As the past moved away
Moved away from me and you
I passed you on the way
traveled with you for
a sunlit moment but
doesn’t it seem strange
to slowly turn together
and then spin away
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9. |
Days
05:05
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Did you arrive together
And will you leave that way
Somehow the thought hangs over
Until it’s pushed away
Maybe you’ll hold them closer
Maybe you’ll try to forget
Just let the waves drift to you
And drift out with the tide again
And the days always change
And they always stay the same
A moment’s lack of attention
Amidst the background noise
Brings you back to a moment
That you've been trying to avoid
Did it seem so easy
To keep yourself from the things you saw
Did you think that you had found
A heart as heavy as yours
And the days always change
And they always stay the same
You feel them turning over
They just go on and on again
They go on and on
They go on and on again
Over and over
They go and on again
But they always feel the same
Turning over
They go on and on again
Just a moment’s weakness
And the connection can’t be found
If I miss you
I guess I’ll see you around
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10. |
Earthquake Weather
05:35
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Fall to your knees again
If the connection comes apart in your hands
Just echoes and dreams now
Let them come down on you
A flicker of memory comes drifting by
Tensing up all your limbs
And you shiver inside at the thought of it
Feel it crawl along your skin
It sickens the stomach to dwell on it
As it plays on repeat
Spinning round you like an unfinished melody
Binding you in its strings
So fall to your knees again
As the connection comes apart in your hands
Echoes and dreams sing
And you let them come down, come down on you
Little twitches that colour your gestures
Break the rhythms of your speech
Undermining the sense that you wish you made
And the secrets you keep
Tell me when everything began to fall apart
Tell me all of your fears
And I’ll show you the path that you’ve walked along
And all the lies you’ve believed
It’s a deceptively simple dance
It’s an overpriced cheap trick
Calling your name till you don’t know any better
You’d check your plans, I think it’s earthquake weather
And you’ll fall to your knees again
As the connection comes apart in your hands
Tired echoes of dreams cry out
And you’ll let them come down, come down on you
Just another way to look at all of this
Just a thought that won’t leave
Let it build in its strength as you nurture it
Let it grow in belief
And your habits will form into patterns
Like a virus taking hold
Until the words build themselves into a new story
Maybe it’s time that it gets told
I’ll fall to my knees again
If the connection comes apart in our hands
And your echoes and dreams, my love
I’ll carry them on, carry them with mine
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11. |
King Sleep
05:36
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When was it you realised your mistake?
Thinking isolation meant escape
Left looking for someone else to blame
Roll the dice once more
Just a veil over your eyes
Just another cheap disguise
Till you don’t recognise
What you think you want
I carried desire and it brought me here
Left alone with my thoughts and all my fears
And the broken wisdom that the years
Will just keep on and on
Now cover your windows and shut off the lights
It’s time for us to descend into night
As memories wash over your tired eyes
Just let them close again
And follow the path you find laid out
Tread softly as it carries you down
And try to remember how you felt
When you thought all this was yours
I looked for an answer to the lies
I’m so tired of these dreams
How they persist in the light
I don’t have enough left now to fight
Just let me sleep tonight
Too many colours in my head
Just let me sleep tonight
And the walls come away
And the light disappears
And my heart comes apart
And gives up all my fears
And the night opens up
With its longing embrace
I’m so tired of these dreams
I’m so tired of these dreams
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12. |
The One That Died
06:10
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I always wanted to be a traveller
But so it goes
So it goes I guess
The rose remains in fixed position
And the world slows
Slows as it turns again
But there’s not now much to remember
There’s nothing much left here to say
Just fading words on scraps of paper
Just dreams forgotten in the day
And you could tell me your story
It might be true, it might be fake
Perhaps it never really matters
Just what it leaves in its wake
And so I’ll fall into a slumber
As comfortable as I can make
What was that song you used to sing me
The one to keep the nightmares away?
We proudly present our last transmission
If you bought a ticket you have to take the ride
The time is over for hiding in shadow
Just step right up folks and come inside
It’s one final offer for some understanding
A last chance to satisfy your appetites
Please gather round now ladies and gentlemen
As we pay our respects to the one that died
I needed
I needed more
I need more time
I needed more time
I needed
It’s not enough
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Closed Circuits Tomar, Portugal
Chris Page is a musician and poet based in Portugal. He makes apocalypse pop for electronics and voice.
theeclosedcircuits@gmail.com for contact
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