1. |
Visitor
05:58
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Sanity in a place that is crumbling
A reminder of dark days
Visitor in a bright light, overwhelming
Take in the streetscape
Messed up and scarred
Poised on the screaming motorway
Concentrate on the hundred metres ahead
Took a wrong turn somewhere
Not a soul out here
Eerily quiet highwalks and gardens
Not a soul out here
Heading for the ruins, heading for the ruins
Out here all night
Something's wrong
She tells me there's treasure
Follow at a safe distance but she's gone
She was talking about you
Ordinary places in this evolving city
Interrupt the horizontal flow of the road
A haven in the modern world
We tried to keep away
A ruin so confusing it's intoxicating me
Messed up and scarred
Poised on the screaming motorway
Concentrate on the hundred metres ahead
Took a wrong turn somewhere
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2. |
Miles From Home
04:16
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Miles from home
The stark truth hurts
Wishing in vain
Us versus us
A legacy
Emerging from peace
Over the sea
Places out of reach call to me
The light strikes me, a spectacle
A kaleidoscope of senses calls to me
It's our own fault
Suddenly exhausted and feeling empty
Looking back it's growing dark
Falling under the stars
A flower opens to the sky
A useless abstract primal cry
Incomplete
A structure falls
Broken places
Fallen to the floor
Echo chambers
Decimated and dispersed
Devastated
But we’ll forget it ever hurt
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3. |
Closing Days
05:20
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In relative safety
In the weeks and in the months before
Closing days
Tongue darts
A false start
Testing the water
Closing days
However however
They promise us all
Palatable
There's something
Terribly wrong
It's incompatible
And impossible
Escape through time
We saw structures stretch for miles and miles
A sea of new
Repeating and evolving
Is it out there somewhere
Just being new
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4. |
Fated and Alien
04:40
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Absorbed
A pilgrimage
A metaphor
Fated and alien
Always leave us wanting more
Somewhere to crawl when the light fails us
Resurrection
Unresolved
It's a cold place
Thought it would fall
Always leave us wanting more
Somewhere to crawl when the light fails us
Between sickness and health
Towering over us
Sculpted from circumstance
It's a continuum
Looking into the shadow
Retreating into ourselves
This isn't what we imagined
But it's the place where we fell
Can they hear
Along the shore?
Co morbid
To the core
Always leave us wanting more
Somewhere to crawl when the light fails us
Translated
Now we walk
On firm ground
Just as before
Always leave us wanting more
Somewhere to crawl when the light fails us
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5. |
Negative
04:16
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Hollowed out of this shell
Vulnerable, the sun could glow
And the sky could be full
Of wandering stars
Showering down over us all
I have a weakness though
And it follows me
Silently biting at my heels
Delighting in my unease
And I obligingly
Hold out my arms
And it won't let me go
Offering a beaten down heart
It won't let me not know
In great detail
These intruding thoughts
I want to lose
Out of my head I can see
That mindset that's misleading me
But why be so cruel
In a parallel world
Where the sun still sets over us all
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6. |
Another Time
05:20
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Windswept in a bitter winter
In the underground of here
The best intentions
All three dimensions
We're getting out of here
Experimental and incomplete
Becoming normalised
Off limits to me
That enthralling life
The roads move before me
And the streets close in
Fleeting and beautiful
I'll try my luck again
Another time
Falling from grace
Undenied
Your love of yesterday misplaced
Obsessing and progressing
I can see it in your face
Can you find your own way from here?
I don't think it's going away
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7. |
Nothing Left
04:56
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The process mystifies me
The temperature rises
And cracks are forming too quickly for me
there's nothing left
There's nothing left at all
But a liquid me
I became what consumed me
Stealing their solidity
Grasping at those who dare
Travel along this journey with me
Warm and enveloping
Succumbing and becoming
Just holding us together in the sea
Freeze me
And thaw me out
Broken to pieces
So easily now
Into the deep
It tore me down
Fragmented me
Just watch me go
I've travelled so far
Pulled along by
Currents stronger than me
To a shallow ocean grave
The water surrounding me
Just holding myself together in the sea
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8. |
Frozen In Time
04:45
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A way to cool off
From our solar system
It's nice to see the sun again
We're right through the mist now
Cold heavy flesh
I remembered something I had to do
There's a spirit and ambition
It's not coming back for you
Frozen in time
Even in the dark
You might never get the chance
That I had to throw away
It's not coming back
Strange futures
Down here in the dark
It can feel sinister
Tough love in action
Glossed over
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Strange Futures Bristol, UK
Strange Futures (Alastair Power, Alice Sheridan) came into existence at the beginning of 2021 in Bristol,
UK.
Emerging from somewhere between euphoric darkwave and melancholic synthpop, this is a soundtrack for an uncertain future - for both the bleak and the good times.
Strange Futures' debut album Joyful Dystopia was released in September 2022.
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