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Archaeopteryx Tango
05:38
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Cicatrix
All we are is bones and skin
Dancing like an archaeopteryx
I'm not sure of where to begin
So many ghosts
Cramping my style
Pulling my hair in frowned on shapes
Everyone else
Unhauntedly
Obliviously unconstrained
So sorry boys
I'm petrified
Like it's a fundamental fact
Too flawed to flow
Too sad to glow
To rearrange my atoms
Fly, fly like you're in mortal danger
Freeze, freeze like an enormous glacier
Lock, step, unlock, misstep
Cicatrix
All we are is bones and skin
Grab onto the air and pull it in
Archaeopteryx tango
Slight malfunction
It's nothing to beat yourself up for
Plimsoles squeak the vinyl floor
From the back of the bar
Some staccato beats lost on their own
Wings rise
Tail fanned
Flightless
But you feel like a million rehatchings, rehatchings
Muscles contract
To the beat of dropped pins
At the tempo of tuts from the crowd
Fingers
Strafing
Ground pound
Jump as high as the planet will allow
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Sorry Boys
04:42
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Sorry, I still get overwhelmed sometimes
Squandered the last chance to say goodbye
Dredged all the anguish up to your eyeballs
Took you so long to just form the words
That we’d all moved on and they couldn’t be heard
I still get overwhelmed sometimes
Chertsey Business Park 2005
Everyone’s asking why I’m still alive
“Why’d you resort to self-sabotage?
There’s customers waiting stop with your passions”
District attorney I’ve got no evidence this makes me happy
“Oh just grow up and pretend”
Imposter, imposter
I’m lost in your crosshairs
Repeating, repeating
If it don’t fit beat it
Til everything’s perfect and smooth-edged and boring
We all smile in tandem
Until we’re by our selves
And just as the sun sets
It all seems so hopeless
A darkness confusing
A silence consuming
So call off your henchmen
Your army of yes men
You’ve already lost this
Your argument’s baseless
And just as the sun leaks
From over the houses
Believe in your feelings
And sing, “All you arseholes can die”
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Sycophantic ants (I won’t trouble your ghost)
Riding parallel elevators down into hell (I won’t gnaw at your bones)
Weeks of tumbleweed (All we left was the Earth)
Artificial intelligensia (Practise being alone)
All along the road seems so calm
But I’m starting to think that we’re alone
It’s been days and no one’s coming to our rescue
Anyone?
But it’s alright to pretend it’s alright
Rapturous applause
Only from the lightning that sheets the foot of your bed
Wires quietly
Vanishing transmission between the trees
All along the road seems so calm
But I’m starting to think that we’re alone
It’s been days and no one’s coming to our rescue
Anyone?
But it’s alright to pretend it’s alright
Cue the regrets
I never break danced
We never got over our nervousnesses
I never called you up on that weekend
You could be here but we’d still wind up dead
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Letters to Wimpy
04:41
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Brace yourself
It’s pure linoleum this time, unplanned office
Mechanised
Like your attention to detail got you somewhere OK
Integrate
The way a plasticine figure responds to pressure
Kid yourself
Another pina colada and you will be just fine
Case
Lower your case
Debunked
Beds made to rest
I’m tired of rest
Of motionlessness
Let’s escape
But escape to what?
I don’t know
Paperwork
And our reduction to numbers, collateral
Retrograde
I feel myself slipping under mountaintops of songs to be sung
There’s no time to be stung
Staves filled with rests
I’m tired of rest
Of motionlessness
It’s a chore
Just staying still
For so long
Hold up, hold up
I remember days of young
Hold on, hold on
How much longing is too long?
Hold out, hold out
Are we just coasting til the end?
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Fly Fly Triceratops London, UK
Fly Fly Triceratops are a math rock band from London, UK.
Bookings: flyflytriceratops@gmail.com
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