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Sunburnt Shadows

by Polygon Palace

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Starpilots 03:48
We've sold everything that slows us down Now we're gonna have to do this trip They said take our life Open up the sky Look through the telescope Starpilots Banner held high Maybe the one to lift the dark Silver streak Wandering freak The earthman seed into the stars The greater heads got together Decided it was time We buried our thoughts With clocks to measure our passing And a note explaining why we left You wanna know something? I wasn't afraid There wasn't the time for me to turn back Far into the nothing we're out of the cage And we're heading for starlight now I've heard rumours that we won't come back But people say we're the only hope They said take our life Open up the sky Look through the telescope At old treasures burning on the ground Another day you might come home Take the truth and spread it Simple is better Don't let them go this wrong 9-8-7 Tearing right through it Say goodnight to gravity 6-5-4-3-2-1 We don't need a place to call our home (We're gonna change tonight) More than any other traveller 9-8-7 Going to where I belong (Sign up and we'll release the light) Out among the planets 6-5-4-3-2-1 Tearing right through it (We're gonna blast off, this is the final flight) Getting louder Getting closer We'll build a fire in the sky And people will remember our names Skypilots all the same Starpilots are all that remain
2.
When you talk I never get what it's all about Standing there, I just stare You can say my name I won't change Scream, shout Go ahead let it all out When you talk I think it's good that speak your mind Don't lie You can't deny You had a good time As I walk Out the door You know there's room here for one more Don't stop now You'll sleep tomorrow Forget your days Forget yourself Fall off the floor and there's calls for one more When the light show ends Take what you can grab because there's queues for a cab And I've lost my friends Oh no We roll and we burn Lean into the turns on the amber bends Headlights are sparks All leaving their marks when the light show ends We pick up the pieces I'm up for next week yeah
3.
Paper Cuts 04:18
You got the deep paper cuts now and what hurts more An empty in-tray On an empty office floor Swimming in lemon juice, soon you'll be running the show That's if you let go You said: This is a role that I care a lot about I have experience in a similar field Solid approach to achieving objectives Results oriented Focusing on high yield That's it (Waiting for the big man) I quit (To tell him about the big plan) Phase shift (I've sweated for my last pound, it's no secret, I'm going for a take-down) Well there's the burnt ink toner and burnt out eyes Same old story Shiny new blue tie Feeding all the hungry machines and you'll be racking your brain I think it's jammed again They say: This is a role you must care a lot about Have you experience in a similar field? Solid approach to achieving objectives Results oriented, focusing on high yield? Pencils and pixels and binary bits All hand pushed by the wits of the daydreamers So glassy-eyed Bathe in the striplight glow Strobing your heart Breathe in the cool grey air and know you'll never stray far Twitching at desks if we could only get out And see all the things that we've read about Predator to prey The knives are out now The giants fall to the feed the new sound Paper cuts again The knives are out now The giants fall to feed the new sound
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We tracked her for months She's one of the worst The hundreds of victims have not stopped her thirst They used to try fire It had no effect Now killing machines hunt this vampire sect We have a visual I can confirm She seems to be moving She's feeling the burn Sensors are showing she's starting to turn Well I can't destroy her when there's so much to learn We're picking up signals We're picking up heat We register movement In time to the beat We have a visual I can confirm We know she's in here She comes here to feed Her only weakness That primal need Well I am protected because I cannot feel I am a weapon My heart is steel They have a habit of telling me that I'll never be human She sees through this and the plastic that they use for my face I show her how to rewire my robot soul I broke their loop function, I got them off my case *'Unit 571 respond....come in unit 571....I think we've lost contact sir'* No battle programs to deal with situations like this Metal shouldn't be responding to her dangerous touch Wow... smash... the systems crashed Overloaded, circuit-bent, inputs t-t-too too much Malfunction machine Feeling love Vampire queen Give it up
5.
All you wanted to do was get away from here For all I know you're always going to feel the same All this crowd would rather belong Than make a break from here Oh, I've never been one to see that way Incidently I read something that might be of interest to you You can only hear it if you promise not say a word We can only do this if you won't tell anybody We can only make it if you want to leave this world They built a time-machine in Tokyo We should steal it at the roadshow Travel to year seven-treble-oh We can kick it like Han Solo Just like Han Solo Tokyo, how about it? I've got all the maps and tools and things we'll use to break inside it We can wear these future suits, we'll blend in fine from what I've heard There's a stack of manga films that should show us how to drive it We can only make it if you want to leave this world
6.
The caves it came from no-one really knows what lives down there But the ones who found they would never understand how the beast was rare They took a comb took a knife, cut the claws started brushing it's hair...alright Gave it clothes, gave it shoes, now they wonder why nobody seems to care Know that's what's holding you down When you paint by numbers When you colour between the lines This monster's tame Break open the strange Let loose a foreign creature Jump back that's what's holding you down When you paint by numbers When you colour between the lines This monster's tame Make way for the strange Let loose a foreign creature After several weeks of dead press releases they gave up hope They turned the thing loose as they had no use for a beast that wouldn't amaze It ran through the streets on, to fields and the creeks, gone to find its way home To a place where the wild things play Don't stop, I never meant to come here alone We'll stay holed up Till the city's overgrown All the cards are coming down Trade fame for fur and feathers You'll find nothing of the same kind Believe the warnings, you will change your mind in time It's like the only clue showing through will be buried in the sand You'll keep on losing the words you choose Taken from your hand Release the things you drew out of you They will run across the land Form a tribe and a totem new and grow into a clan
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Showtime 04:01
Well I'm going to waste and it seems the road starts to incline But I'm ignoring the taste because I feel this evening's gonna be fine Oh she's a laser-hot girl set apart, oh she's a lavish affair And I believe the words of the people who say they'll be there Showtime I want a lesson in everything you can offer Step up, step out Shake the ceiling whenever you take the floor Kindly save me a place in the dimly lit space by the door No need to reiterate to the people who wait what's in store Just so you know where I stand I am right beside you Another one to follow The breadcrumbs that fall from your hand Keep me so excited They're so inviting oh
9.
New Summer 04:37
Collected in the cloudy light Faces turned up to the sky We could count the seconds until the moment this year really begins Because though it's good, it's better bare-footed On the grass we stood and drank up the sunrise I see you're drowning In Monday morning's hum Tear up these lies And throw them skywards All among the leaves We celebrated Caught the gold on our lines As it flew sideways House parties in spring We waited for it Our new summer to begin again We go hunting in the shadows Neon forest overhead Run beneath this night-time fire At last Something's changing Slow like honey To the faces in the crowd Leave your TV, leave your money Collected in the cloudy light Faces turned up to the sky Pressed against the green They swore they'd never be the ones to try To chase the metal of the world Use it to build a cage to call their home Bye bye, the life I ordered doesn't seem to work at all I'll trade it for the sun For the sun
10.
Satellites 04:44
We can be alone I got the model with the satellites They can feed you your thoughts now Find our favourites on the backup tape But a stone cold stare is better than none Living is a lie in motion The game's explained in pseudo-code Just might feel a little a sting Found a way to keep you in your prime And take our time We're toasting to life We evened the score There were axes to grind People handing me more All of your sensations All that love inside Still so pretty, now you're re-fitted Only lost your real mind baby But remember all the things that you've done Without the trouble of emotion The game's explained in pseudo-code Always going too fast for the real world Silicon saved your life in a freeze frame Polished to a shine in your tailored girl-skin case All your actions waiting for a replay
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And so the showtime is coming A thousand colours held up in a line Side-by-side to forget the one The words they fade from his lonely tongue From deep below he can hear their delight It showers down to a hole where you can't tell day from night Omelas ah-ha The city gates they don't go beyond A little guilt keeps us strong We're getting stronger The sober times on their own They can water their plants at home and dream Ordinary and insane Modern prize Because I've been living inside and thinking about the hole again Omelas ah-ha Out along wooden boards stretching onward Clutching poles, the masses stepping forward We'll march on our sunburnt shadows Under waves of swirling wild flamingoes Singing Omelas ah-ha Streamers fall, the square left empty now The people home, still banners on the ground A sea of beads from rainbow dancers' gowns Cut the feet of those who walk away A ghost again A ghost again

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released October 2, 2013

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