i did this in 2017 after i had been in bed for four days with the flu. my voice was completely fucked, i changed heaps of the lyrics, it was recorded it on my iphone, there's birds and cars and shit in the mix... but idk i like it.

Hearing Damage (thom yorke/broken voice/iphone cover)

So what did you learn?
I guess not to borrow
What I’ve no hope to return 
And what did you leave?
A smoke haze
And a cavalcade of dunces 
Fixated with dancing 

It’s true 
I was in love
But with process
Never what I could produce
So I was eaten away
And reborn in green 
In parts of land 
The sea forgot to claim 

And I have a pagan rejoice 
Soak my fields in man-made rain
It still rocks the living cradle 
It still functions just the same 

I know what I’ve left
I killed a lot of things
So I could save the rest
Has he asked who I am?
Does he wonder?
Whose intangible hand he reaches for
In my yearly hologram? 
And if he needs anything
He has the pick of the spoils 
All the riches I collect 
But not things I can’t give
Not the thing that I ain’t 

And I have a pagan rejoice 
Soak my fields in man-made rain
It still rocks the living cradle 
It still functions all the same 
And I raked out all the ashes
From this microstate I’ve made
I’ve been warring my whole lifetime 
So to peace I am estranged 

So what did you learn?
That I could do it better
If ever I return

In A Field

What else is out here?
We’re human debris
Aluminium cladding
Plastic satellites
Smart generation
Lest we may need 
Some saving 
And venerating 

Would you like to know
How I
How I
Got away? 

I could wrongthink
For epochs 
Time and salt
You were not stranded
In a red grave
You drank the water
You found 

Would you like to know
How I
How I
Got away? 

Would you like to know
How I
How I
Got away? 

Would you like to know
How I
How I
Got away?

How I Faked The Mars Landing

Cream of sulphur 
Pressed against the glass plate 
We divided 
Was it automatic?
Atomic town felt the fallout
I was speaking at his age
I was interacting      

We defiled ourselves 
It was us 
I can admit it now

Cream of carbon
What if he’s defective?
I had desires
I told you all about them
Is this the vision 
You said we shared?
Or is it perverted now? 

We defiled ourselves 
I saw it all 
Before it happened 

It’s too late
It’s too late
The exit
Already passed us

Cream of nitrous
Were we always fated?
Does your God
Allow for revocation?
Out of all the factories and foundries
Into hanging gardens 
Wearing clothes you made

One day I will
Write the whole thing down
Let some meaning 
Come out of all of this
Please promise 
To raise him like we wanted
I envy your faith more everyday

This is not some
Mistake or omission
I left the car at your mother’s house

Only The Essentials

Came to realise 
Only I am my jailer
Let them strip back the bark
All the psychometric tests 
And the meaningless work preferences

I’m aware I’m superfluous 
I just don’t want to cling to this life
As much as you’d like 
And so I quit

I’ll find another way
Have to find another way 

I will find another way

Three Facsimiles Of The Same Corporate Restructure

You believed that Jesus Christ 
Killed eternal pain 
I believed that our machines 
Would someday do the same 

But I was mistaken 
I was proved wrong 
We shared this conceit 
Then we fucked at eighteen 
And now we have proof
A sentient proof 
Who looks just like you 

How long can I rot
Gilding strangers’ tombs?
I want to buy him everything
And so do you 

But I couldn’t tell you
What is the use?
(What is the use?)
How will you let him know 
That you don’t resent him
As you rip out my throat
As you rip out my throat?

Do you really love him?
If you did, you’d buy a goddamn house
Do you really love us?
If it’s true, you’d find a way to work things out

(You’re always looking at me 
Like it’s all my goddamn fault 
Like we didn’t get here together
You’re gonna be just like your father
Just like your father 
Just like your goddamned father
Just like your goddamned father)

Cheap Narrative Device

Emmanuel

This was the place we went to get well
You could take anyone that you liked 
Please don’t see me as another green martyr 
I just don’t want to choke in a foundry noose

My little fella’s gonna save the planet 
If we can agree that the planet needs saving
Nothing ever gets through both your house and mine
Seems the more diluted, the stronger it becomes

Seven years
Three feet 
Seven years
And it takes a village
Seven years
Three feet 
Seven years 
And it takes a village

This Was (The Hospital)

(Something we both can love) 

You made it so hard to tell
Quick to vilify, I’ll extricate myself
You made it so hard to kill
Was it lesson?
Was it something else?

I thought you were proud 
A future-proof job in an automated town 
Baby’s coming any day
Something we both can love 

We can survive on this
You can’t save anyone in a fatalistic bliss
Me, the eternal optimist 
While you’re just plugging your brain 
Got no soma etiquette 

Still we’ve arrived somehow 
Future-proof living, destroying laters for now
He’ll be coming soon
Vulnerable to your love 

(Vulnerable to your love)

Fashion Slaves

Before we open the first crate
We say the team affirmation 
‘Let me be thankful, 
Let my back be strong 
And not give out’ 

Increasingly 
Things are pewter
From a computer
Analog cigarettes
A monochromatic fixation 

I’m going to see the great lakes 
(I’m going to see the great lakes)
Beyond the tides of refuse 
(swelling with tides of refuse)
In a bootleg hazmat suit
I printed out myself
In the break room

All a fantasy
But in seven-minute increments 
I’ll believe in everything 

Something’s always buzzing at me

Uninvited
‘Do I have to go?’
Body, mind and soul 
Is always aching 
They say ‘do your time
Just do your time
Time is in the mind’
But is that mind mine?

Before we open the first crate
We say the team affirmation

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