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Death By Plastic
00:50
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Foxes roam the streets
looking for food and functionally extinct
replaced by synthetic animals
and other plastics
halo of flies circle around them
not built for this world
there are no amends
we keep making the same mistakes
you'll miss us when we've gone
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Halo of Flies
06:27
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A festival of lights alive with sound
A halo of flies buzzing around
sshush...
Shy eyes look out of every tree
Their frightened gaze returned by me
We cannot breath again at last
Unless we let go our past
We can’t move on to better days
Unless we acknowledge our mistakes
I'm glad we've moved on to better days
Unless we acknowledge our mistakes
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3. |
Not Built For This World
05:30
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Too beautiful to survive
Too fragile to live
Not built for this world we’re leaving
Too harsh to forgive
There is no room for compromise
No chance to save it all
We’re using up scarce resources
And heading for a fall
When we should be focussing on this world
Rich men look out into space
We can’t take ourselves out of here
There’s no way to escape
Try and save what we can with DNA
And store it in the event
Things improve and we can repopulate the earth
With the wildlife we’ve previously ended
Like space this shit is all pie in the sky
We can turn this supertanker around
But it’ll take time and effort
And the right people on the ground
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4. |
The Same Mistake
12:12
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We can’t heal the scarring of this world
If we can’t admit what we’ve done to the world
We just don't have what it takes
because we keep making the same mistakes
Three Mile Island - same mistake!
Chernobyl - same mistake!
Fukushima... same mistake
Nulclear waste... same mistake again
Grenfell Tower... same mistake
Cocoanut Grove... same mistake
Bhopal... the same mistake
The Windrush... same mistake again
Passenger pigeons... same mistake
wooly mamouth... same mistake
white rhino... same mistake
and the polar bear is going to be the same mistake again
smallpox blankets... same mistake
destroy the buffalo... same mistake
dakota pipeline... same mistake
border exclusions - same mistake!
End of the incas - same mistake!
Gentrification - same mistake!
Empty the care homes after covid - same mistake!
Do not resuscitate the same mistake
cash for questions - same mistake
fast track contracts - same mistake
favours for favours - same mistake
cash for honours - same mistake again
walking through ash - same mistake
nothing will grow here - same mistake
destroy everything we touch - same mistake
maybe go on too much - the same mistake again
We can heal the scaring of this world
if we can admit what we've done to this world
We can heal the scaring of this world
if we can admit what we've done to this world
We keep making the same mistake
Maybe we don't have what it takes
because we keep making the same mistake
and we never admit to whatever we break
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Functionally Extinct
04:14
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Trapped in a forest that shrinks day by day
You can’t live elsewhere and we give it away
A specific diet without it we’ll starve
The land that we left you has been more than halved
can’t live in the world we made
Too late the price was paid
It doesn’t matter what you think
More and more functionally extinct
We’ve done so much wrong too much to forgive
Concrete disasters where nothing can live
More space for housing we’ll hack and we’ll slash
Then we’ll go further and burn it to ash
can’t live in the world we made
Too late the price was paid
It doesn’t matter what you think
More and more functionally extinct
Roads that take a steady toll
On anything that can’t drive at all
A manmade disaster taking wildlife at will
If you can’t survive we can replace you with something that will
can’t live in the world we made
Too late the price was paid
It doesn’t matter what you think
More and more functionally extinct
It should be a digital display
Ideally Bluetooth plug and play
Something that’s cute and easy to feed
That doesn’t shit or piss or bleed
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You'll Miss Us
04:08
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Foxes Roam The Streets
04:49
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One morning walking to work
A fox walked on in front
It was a clear morning
But no one seemed to see
I’m told there’s places where
Foxes roam the streets
I can still feel that they’re there
Foxes roam the streets
It walked with a calm purpose
Like nothing it could want
We walked like that together
Then he walked off away from me
I moved out the city
But I have never seen
Any fox that was as calm
As the urban fox had been
I’m told there’s places where
Foxes roam the streets
I can still feel that they’re there
Foxes roam the streets
Late at night I hear them
But I’ve never seen where they are
I once saw a huge resplendent fox
But that had been hit by a car
I’m told there’s places where
Foxes roam the streets
I can still feel they are there
Foxes roam the streets
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8. |
No Amends
06:03
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there was a time
when things were happy
and now they're unhappy
now they're not fine
there was a thing
it was not burning
there was no learning
and no birds sing
world was empty
everything's gone now
all the things are wrong now
it's all 20-20
in the garden
rain falls like acid
the world looks massive
there's no pardon
hands are open
held out all empty
it's all 20-20
need more hope in
is this how it ends
is this the final curtain
do we know that for certain
are there no amends
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metal postcard records Sydney, Australia
Metal Postcard Records is an independent record label based back in Sydney and influenced by the likes of Fast Records /
Factory / Postcard / Island / Stiff and Bill Drummund's wonderful Zoo records
We believe in new music from around the world ... not world music !
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