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Years ago folks thought a photo steals your soul.
When the shutter goes they own you and you know they know...
How far you’ll go and all the things you didn't want to show.
They’ll hold you in their grip and you, like sullied snow,
Will melt away and drip through all the cracks into the great below.
The camera clicks away all day. We love to tell and show.
We can't go long without a share
Does anybody care?
They care...
They want you there - right there
In ones and noughts and every thought and thing that you report
You shout you blare your secrets and your not so hidden depths
Your bold devil-may-care
Your wit, your shit
You shovel it right out into electric air
It travels to the farthest reach
You pay your fare…
You are the product.
You shout you blare your dumbest idle thoughts
Your calls for a revolt
You watch yourself
You send your observations out for all the spooks to share
You pay your fare
Cos If you're happy to surveil yourself you are the product.
Years ago they say that a person could go
About their business and nobody else would ever know
Where you might go. Or try to listen to you in your home
The little bit that's left of you would really like to know
What was it like.
But you must share and you must swipe
Left or right
And when you’re gone all that is left will be your cookies and your likes
You are the product
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Humanoids [2022 remix]
02:50
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No lyrics - it's an instrumental!
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Here comes THE SUN. It rises from the ocean
Tolerable while mist is in the way.
But soon that melts to vapour.
To then unleash THE LIGHT upon the day.
Into the sky THE WORLD below will whimper
The paltry shade no match before it's glare
And all is bleached before it.
There’s no escape, THE SUN is always there.
Put your shades on baby
Do not leave the shade yeah?
Stay inside now baby
‘Til it’s gone away!
THE MAN stares at the ground, his brow is furrowed
The holes and spots in vision burned right through
Can't bear to see the daylight
The webs and shadows mark and mar the view.
THE LIGHT is never ending in its vigor
THE HEAT which nurtures life will dry the bones
And though we might avoid it
THE Sun will never leave THE WORLD alone.
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Quit it
Quit what you’re doing
We don’t need that bullshit any more
With trouble brewing
Just stop it
Don’t let it happen
When the future’s falling from our arms
Just don’t allow them
There are monsters waiting at the door
Impatiently
There are forces that we can’t control
Driving us crazy
So
Stop
Stop it
Stop it now
Won’t you stop it now?
Quit it
Quit what you're doing
You're causing yourself some awful harm
Sitting there stewing
So cut it
Don’t take it lightly
Poisoning all that you might become
Doing it nightly
We all thumb our noses at the wolf
complacently
On our hands and knees and in the dirt
Eating it daily
So
Stop
Stop it
Stop it now
Won’t you stop it now?
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When you wake up and it’s cold
When you wake up and you’ve done as you were told
When you feel it’s getting old
And when you ask them it’s “a no”
And when you ask them why it’s “no” they won’t tell you.
They won’t tell you why they put the hoodoo on you.
They put it on you, they put it on you.
And then you ask them why it’s “no”
They tell you that it’s apropos
Oh, save me
Won't someone save me?
Please somebody, please!
Oh save me
Won't someone save me?
Please somebody, please!
In the morning in the mode
When you feel that you have got to crack a code
Or the pieces will implode.
It’s the power of ‘the no’
It’s the power of ‘the no’
Oh, save me
Won't someone save me?
Please somebody, please!
Oh save me
Won't someone save me?
Please somebody, please!
When you wake and it’s cold
When you wake up and you’ve done as you were told
When you feel it’s getting old
And when you ask them “it’s a no”
And when you ask them why it’s “no” they won’t tell you.
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Becalmed, not going anywhere
Pitch dark, the black an inky secret
Heaven up above but really hard to see a star
And the water lapping at the fringes.
Becalmed, the strings are trembling
Sweetheart, through the wall, breathing deeply
Trying to convince the cat to want to settle down
At the foot end and to let the silence swallow me up.
Find a way, please today
So I can have my say
Becalmed in the dark.
Becalmed, the sheets are wandering
The arm, so still that it must be dead
Millions of words to choose from but I can find none
In here, out there and waiting is a small forever.
Becalmed, the sails are fluttering
The stars are trying hard to twinkle
Searching in the bilge and pulling out a telescope
Well it might help or it might just make me search forever.
Find a way, please today
So I can have my say
Becalmed in the dark.
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Head North [2022 remix]
03:33
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Head North, when the ocean is frozen
Head North while the creatures are still
Towards the night
Towards the beating heart of it
Head North where the way is the will.
Head North when the willows are quaking
Head North when the beasts disappear
Because the night
Belongs to lovers and to love
Head North – go without any fear.
When you get there it will amaze you
When you get there it will be fine
All the problems you have will desert you
All the troubles will be far behind
Will be so far behind
Head North where a welcome awaits you
Head North where the icicles shine
The frosty floes
The aurora borealis
Head North while you still have the time
When you get there they will be waiting
In the fields and under the ice
They will take you just as they find you
To your failings they're going to be blind
Yes they're going to be blind
You’ll know
You’ll know
This is your home
This is your home, yeah!
Head North, when the ocean is frozen
Head North while the creatures are still
Because the night
Belongs to lovers and to love
Head North – go without any fear.
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Yummy Stick [2022 remix]
01:54
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Murder [2022 remix]
04:23
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In the gloomy cobbled dark
Where the streetlights fail to spark
In the back of somewhere grim something happened…
There was him.
In the void before the dawn
Where the cynics yawn
There's a subtle, muffled sound as another’s
Bought to ground
Screams ring out
What they’ve found - awful sound
Murder! Murder! Murder!
Run away!
Murder! Murder! Murder!
Run away!
Everything is coming out
Everything is falling out - everything
Black as night and pale as snow
And a face filled with surprise
Purple waves - a crimson cloak
And the out that should be in
Everyone is coming now
Clutching face and open mouthed
Fight or flight and flight wins out
Everyone Is Coming Now
Murder!
Murder!
Murder!
Run away!
Everything is coming out
Everything is falling out - everything
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Steve Chenlz Brighton, UK
I'm Steve Chenlz. I write songs and record them.
I make music to please myself. I enjoy
the whole process of composition and recording and am learning more about production as I get older.
I share my music here just for the sake of sharing. No pretence or high ideals. If you choose to listen then thank you!
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