Music and Lyrics written by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker
Produced by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker 
Post-Production & Mixing by Jack McLaine
Mastered by Francesco Fabris

LYRICS

When I, wrote
This song
It opened up
My third eye
Holding up
The fall guy
Might, go
Satellite

When I, wrote
My heart out
And I know it’s not
All it’s cracked up to be
But there is always 
Hope inside of me

A lifetime
Ago
This life
Lives on
In every look
Is to say in a word
That it all never goes away

The light 
Of the sun
Alone

Will give 
Enough
Life

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LYRICS

Bands of colour
Blades and bayonets
We’ve done this before
All the ones we’ve left behind
All the ones we’ve left behind

Crimson heads
Plumes of amethyst
We’ve been here before
So easily forgotten
So easily forgotten

Iron seeds lay under the snow
Waiting for the season to grow
Light the violent ones we miss
Cool and still under the soil
When the sun comes out
We’ll be photosynthesis

Call the others
All our nemesis
All are human
The ones we left behind
The ones we left behind

Bare or clothed
Waterworn
All the pain
So easily forgotten
So easily forgotten

Iron seeds lay under the snow
Waiting for the season the grow
Light the violent ones we miss
Cool and still under the soil
When the sun comes out
We’ll be photosynthesis

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Music and Lyrics written by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker
Produced by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker 
Post-Production & Mixing by Jack McLaine
Mastered by Francesco Fabris

LYRICS

Silver and silent
Caught in the night air
Hidden in your hands
Filled with desire
Lead with a soft kiss
Into the darkness

Feed on 
The way you feel
Like an animal hunted

Sleep with the light on
Hearing your voice there
Filled with desire
Gilded with fire
Lead with a soft kiss
Into the darkness

I still feel you breathing so slowly although you're far away 
I won't leave until it is safe to be together
If you wait, I’ll wait, here, I'll wait, here, I’ll wait
If you wait, I’ll wait, here, I'll wait, I’ll wait, I’ll wait, I’ll wait 

If you wait, I’ll wait, here, I'll wait, here, I’ll wait
If you wait, I’ll wait, here, I'll wait, here, I’ll wait
If you wait, I’ll wait, here, I'll wait, here, I’ll wait
If you wait

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Music and Lyrics written by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker
Produced by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker 
Post-Production & Mixing by Jack McLaine
Mastered by Francesco Fabris

LYRICS

More than once I’ve felt like this
When the strong wind comes over the mountains
I remember

This line sweeps me along
Frequent companions
High clouds
And I can hardly stand

After all, what are we searching for here?
When we are thin and broken 
We are light

And this balloon can carry us further
How much further must I go?
Must I go?

After all, what are we searching for here?
When we are thin and broken 
We are light

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Music and Lyrics written by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker
Produced by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker 
Post-Production & Mixing by Jack McLaine
Mastered by Francesco Fabris

LYRICS

Demon at the door
Demon at the door again
Feathered nevermore
Demon’s at the door again

Inside you’re frozen over
Waiting on Utopia
Your Holy Roman Empire (sticky sinking)
The bite is much worse than its bark (collective critters crawling)

What’s inside you? (hive mind)
What you hide (hive mind)
What’s inside you? (hive mind)
What you hide (hive mind)

(Slide, slip around me
Strange, screaming fears)

Futures at the door (heart pounding)
Futures at the door again (paralised)
Standing in the mirror (sucking, scattering thoughts)
Futures at the door again

What’s inside you? 
What you hide 
What’s inside you? 
What you hide 
What’s inside you? 
What you hide 
What’s inside you? 
What you hide 

(it’s within you)

(Paralised
Panic
Panic)

Close it out
Keep it safe until I return
Hiding out
Frozen solid in the desert

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Music and Lyrics written by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker
Produced by Adam Ouston & Tash Parker 
Post-Production & Mixing by Jack McLaine
Mastered by Francesco Fabris

LYRICS

Do you believe in love, falling at first sight 
I felt my heart miss a beat when I caught your eye
In that moment I hoped you’d be my mine tonight
So get a little closer to me, come on dance

Though we’re perfect strangers
I know in my heart
That we can dance and we can be happy 
You know everyone needs love
Here at this party
I know in my heart
That we can dance and we can be happy 
You know everyone needs love

Everyone needs love
Yeah everyone needs love
Everyone needs love		(Come on dance)
Yeah everyone needs love

I know you felt the spark 	(When we get old will you still hold me tight)
I’m glad I took the chance 	(The stars in our eyes are perfectly aligned)
I know you’re from Hobart	(When we get old will you still hold me tight) 
But I still wanna dance	(Come on dance)

Though we’re perfect strangers
I know in my heart
That we can dance and we can be happy 
You know everyone needs love
Here at this party
I know in my heart
That we can dance and we can be happy 
You know everyone needs love

Everyone needs love		(Come on dance)
Everyone needs love		(Come on dance)
Everyone needs love		(Come on dance)
Everyone needs love		(Come on dance)

Though we’re perfect strangers
I know in my heart
That we can dance and we can be happy 
You know everyone needs love
Here at this party
I know in my heart

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FM-2030 bears witness to the exquisite ceremony of the carving and serving, making sure everyone gets an equal portion, of heads of state and men of wealth, the bleeding gums of binary dumbness, and dismembered right and left. All that remains is up up up!

FM-2030 comprises Launceston-based musician Tash Parker (PARKER, Runaway Belles) and Hobart-based musician and writer Adam Ouston (COSTUME). Having performed together in their individual guises, the pair felt the need to collaborate on a project that gave vent to their shared frustrations and need for catharsis. ‘Especially in Australia - everyone is so comfortable and complacent. But nothing works! And the people in charge are playing us all for fools.’ Their fury and shouting for change is summed up in the music, which uses a variety of unique, often industrial, sounds, primal beats, tribal chants, horror film soundtracks, and expansive synths. ‘We wanted the sounds to be of the landscape, so we did a lot of recording of scraping, banging and clanging against industrial structures around the island, as well as sighing and singing into huge abandoned mining tunnels.’

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