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Slipping through darkness with her master key
Patsy takes a book from the depository
Her fingers twitch as she turns the page
And bites right through her lip to conceal the rage

Deep State’s moving in and out
No one knows their names or their whereabouts
Flags are false as the fog surrounds 
and viewers feel and find another coup’s gone down

Hands in the cap feel the greenback grease 
And a dark gentle squeeze that will never cease
Defected elected dropping off the range 
Will slip out through the traffic on the interchange

Deep State moving in and out
No one knows their names or their whereabouts
Flags are false as the fog surrounds 
and viewers feel and find another coup’s gone down

Streets are littered and the walls all scorched
Silent figures look out from the porch
The schools are empty all the children gone
And no one can remember where it all began

Deep State moving in and out
No one knows their names or their whereabouts
Flags are false as the fog surrounds 
And viewers feel and find another coup’s gone down

NEW WAVE FUNCTION

DEEP STATE

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Black leather and a six-inch wedge
Cold wind at the scraper's edge
Deny your program as the vortex rolls
Laughing at the closets in their pigeonholes
Insane they’ll twist inside out
Scared faces that begin to shout
They never got it and they never will
Waiting mouths open for a media fill

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

East escalates as West demands
Grey suits clap and rub their hands
Did you see it on the news at ten
Mad Billy climbed the electronic tower again.
Head back as the rain pours down
Blood pissing from a barbed wire crown
Close sources say it's not that deep
Then climb under their duvets for some beauty sleep

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

Cars scorch through the narrow streets
Smoke rises as they overheat
But no one listens to the rider's joys
Pushing in their silver earbuds to avoid the noise
Chaos renders and the waves collapse
Walls tremble as the mantle cracks
Crowds travel to the northern lights
To fly their tired banners and defend their rights

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

Phone hangs from an android’s arm
Firewalls keep you safe from harm
Creeps smiling coz they think they’ll win
As they push another chip under your fragile skin
An angel swings from the hangman's noose
Armed response let the jackals loose
But if they hurry there will just be time
To turn their fucking script into a pantomime

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

EARLY BRIGHT

CLOSE RANGE

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Busted in and fell straight through 
Stolen boulevard debut
Slithering silk on lizard snakes
Shining eyes and layered cakes

Clock still ticking patiently 
Rotation to a new degree
Fingers reaching for that key
Steal your place in history

There's no need to leave the chair
For paths to darker places where
Dirty wind sweeps barren lands
Lowered voices bitch commands

Clock still ticking patiently 
Rotation to a new degree
Fingers reaching for that key
Steal your place in history

Glittering sky bound pearl kingdom
Built with bricks of fools wisdom
Strike and bury all dissent 
Can't afford to show relent 

Clock still ticking patiently 
Rotation to a new degree
Fingers reaching for that key
Steal your place in history

NEVER

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Walls all dark now slide on past
Spinning dials adjust contrast
Bouncing pictures through the cast
Subscribe for the ever-last
Can we take it up a stage
Feed it through the landing page
Popularity engage
Measured through the traffic gauge

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

Smiling thumbs are collated
New statements automated
Opposition deflated
Arguments all truncated
Spinning through the copper wire
Let those passwords all expire
Open source intensifier
Burning in the cable fire

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

Open development tools
Scanning text let’s follow rules
Firewall the hacking fools
Ring-fencing the data pools
Pumping traffic hits the vein
Reach euphoria again
Inter stimulated brain
Slowly driven quite insane

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

FLAYED

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Low vibration sonic fest
Didn’t pass the mushroom test
Shadows bounce around the walls
Panic climbs and darkness falls 
Interplanetary glide 
Silver tube now hide inside
Build a list the smash it down 
Even numbers break the frown

Murky strings sound alive
Drop the speed to seven five 
Frequency can now pulsate and
Has the shape to animate

Counting in reverse from ten
Spin the wheel and start again 
Keeping left around the maze 
Following the lunar blaze 
Silver shards of broken light
Penetrate the edge of night
Let them pass right through the skin
Feel the glory from within

Murky strings sound alive
Drop the speed to seven five 
Frequency can now pulsate and
Has the shape to animate

Concentrate don’t loose the edge
Till they freeze inside the hedge 
Reach inside and flip the hatch 
Turn that twenty second catch 
Run the game back through the air
Wave your banner to declare 
Chosen gems can now be spun 
Sitting neatly all at one

Murky strings sound alive
Drop the speed to seven five 
Frequency can now pulsate and
Has the shape to animate

SPLINTERS

FILTERED

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Plastic bottles float around
Deadly solar rays inbound
Hellbent empire history
Oily fingers rub with glee
Bath within the silky slick
Murky airborne aesthetic
Peeling bark and dying roots
Sprawling concrete institutes

Forest ceilings landscaped clear
Greener mountains disappear 
Country rivers turning brown
Shelves of ice all crashing down
Pump your shit out live the dream
Just ignore the changing scene
Filthy grey polluted mix
Leave it for the kids to fix

Toxic plumes bleed into skies
Slowly fetching our demise
Darker clouds and ph rain
Now Corrupt the whole food chain
Point away it’s no one’s fault
Can’t contemplate the end result
Just bin off immediate gain
And focus on the word sustain

Forest ceilings landscaped clear
Greener mountains disappear 
Country rivers turning brown
Shelves of ice all crashing down
Pump your shit out live the dream
Just ignore the changing scene
Filthy grey polluted mix
Leave it for the kids to fix

Season’s unpredictable
Real progress fictional
Ocean edges creeping up
Mama nature's had enough
Greedy scumbags won’t desist
Another species off the list
Dirty fossils ever burn
Till our little globe don’t turn

BURN

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Did you see that guy downstairs
Covered face an a book of prayers
Still sees spider webs contract
Took an oath then made a pact
Almost bled the final mile
Took his ampule in true style
Never shows the picture book
Coz just the few can take a look

So hit that blackout like a beast
Draw those curtains make a feast
Stick that goggle box on loud
Airborne heroes make you proud
Pop some bunting around the door
Ticker tape and balloons galore
Slippers on all safe and sound
Let’s watch the carousel spin round

Thirty years on missions dark
Quiet reunions in the park
Whispers of the secret fight
Not a word those lips shut tight
Over-shoulder glances cast
Bones in cupboards from the past
Few have stubs now from the show
The uncut script we’ll never know

So hit that blackout like a beast
Draw those curtains make a feast
Stick that goggle box on loud
Airborne heroes make you proud
Pop some bunting around the door
Ticker tape and balloons galore
Slippers on all safe and sound
Let’s watch the carousel spin round

Colder waters hidden tales
Of compromise and mission fails
Ripped out page of those alive
Stolen from the old archive
Final secrets land of white
Smuggled in the dead of night
Dark and deep the empty palace
Flex your thumbs around the chalice

So hit that blackout like a beast
Draw those curtains make a feast
Stick that goggle box on loud
Airborne heroes make you proud
Pop some bunting around the door
Ticker tape and balloons galore
Slippers on all safe and sound
Let’s watch the carousel spin round

BLACKOUT

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Crazy sunsets settle down 
Crossings beep all over town
Crashing textures urban scene
Parking lots and gasoline
Make-shift cities live within and
Camouflage the city rim 
Rendered block with peeling tags
Shiny oil on broken flags 
Doors fly open sirens scream 
And punctuate the drizzle dream 
Amber lights and flashing signs 
Busy bees make hurried lines 

Diesel fumes and vapor trails 
Flicker in red glowing tails 
Transformer fizzing gentle hum 
Granite edge black bubble gum 
Distant views all translucent 
Steaming clouds make their accent 
Distant thunder-cracking walls 
Smokey water deluge falls 
Lengthy shadows distant chimes 
Shows begin as laughter climbs
Breath the air and smiling watch 
The human beauty paradox

PARADOX

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For Purcey!

Ever thought of running from your concrete box 
Rising with the sun and turning off the clocks
Maybe we could get by in a different way 
Elevate our conscience from this sick decay

Opened up your eye as the dark came down 
Felt the power surging in the dead of night
Minutes disappeared as the hand span round 
Soaking in your glory till the early bright

Original thoughts are all in suspension 
Only ever seeing in one dimension
Fluoridated water got your soul all fried
Your pineapple senses have been calcified

Opened up your eye as the dark came down 
Felt the power surging in the dead of night
Minutes disappeared as the hand span round 
Soaking in your glory till the early bright

What if people started dropping off the grid
Pulled a few more bricks out of the pyramid
Wonder what it’s like to let your mind immerse 
And feel your true connection to the universe

Opened up your eye as the dark came down 
Felt the power surging in the dead of night
Minutes disappeared as the hand span round 
Soaking in your glory till the early bright

AGENT ORANGE

PINEAPPLE

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Spin around darkness untold 
Crushed-down senses overload
Dragged along that twisted road
Can’t stop shaking panic mode
Beads of sweat and terror chills
Unresponsive coping skills
Spinning floors bent windowsills 
Hallucinogenic pills

Take my 
Hand
Pull me through now
Somehow
Free me 
Fear all but gone 
Salvation 

Dose up higher fingers numb 
Tears seep out now makeup's run
Bitten lips and knuckles pearl 
Overloaded thoughts unfurl 
T-shirt drenched around skin and bone
Old faces become unknown 
Legs are folding to the trance 
Distant screaming ambulance

Take my 
Hand
Pull me through now
Somehow
Free me 
Fear all but gone 
Salvation

SALVATION

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There’s a path that we’ve been told
Where truest hearts cannot grow old
Escape the traps and leave the fold
Then find within a strength so bold
Coz there’s no end to evermore 
So Grab that slate and track your score
Expose the light within your core
And land upon that golden shore

No one knows what’s round the bend
So acknowledge and don’t pretend 
Coz Real life’s no mystery 
And through those peepers you can see
Inside vision outer state
The Broken boundaries altered fate
Warped expression changing shape
So Improvise your great escape 

Free that mind and change the cap
And Rip the jacket from its strap
Then Bridge the all illusive gap
While Following your inner map
Road signs turned now upside down
The Crazy pathing broken crown 
The Perforated silky gown
So Don’t become that object clown 

No one knows what’s round the bend
So acknowledge and don’t pretend 
Cause Real life’s no mystery 
And through those peepers you can see
Inside vision outer state
The Broken boundaries altered fate
Warped expression changing shape
So Improvise your great escape 


Crossing channeled flight incline 
The Inner sanctum tastes sublime 
Cross that greener gentle sea
Surrounding souls of pedigree 
Bonds that break with cleaner fire
Take the cutters slash the wire 
Dance between the hidden mines
And Leave your Mondial confines

No one knows what’s round the bend
So acknowledge and don’t pretend 
Real life’s no mystery 
And through those peepers you can see
Inside vision outer state
Broken boundaries altered fate
Warped expression changing shape
So Improvise your great escape

PALE LIGHT

ALTERED FATE

ALTERED FATE (Pantomime Riot with Carkiss)

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Rust still spreading on your outside stairs 
Undercover drive around in pairs 
Bow your head down and brace the run 
Dripping through the plastic and that dying sun
Screaming babies slamming doors 
Boarded windows and shuttered stores  
Intrusive thoughts creep through the mind
Personal welfare undermined 

Cold blood flows as pulses ebb
Trapped inside the filthy web
Broken glass and rubbish skips
Concrete grey apocalypse 

Riots will break as hats are dropped 
Personal independence stopped 
Corner youngaz  flipping bags 
Sick of turning out in rags
ASC need police support 
5 year wait list for the court 
Local councillors no-ones seen 
Melting snow roofs full of green

Cold blood flows as pulses ebb
Trapped inside the filthy web
Broken glass and rubbish skips
Concrete grey apocalypse 

Dare you take a step outside 
Joyful troops out for the ride 
Mind your mouth and watch your back
Senses stretched out on the rack 
Subway dweller’s penning lines
Sparking bifdas swapping rhymes
Dreaming of the Neverland 
With bounty running on demand 

Cold blood flows as pulses ebb
Trapped inside the filthy web
Broken glass and rubbish skips
Concrete grey apocalypse

CONCRETE WEB

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Silence uncelestial 
And Inner thoughts so bestial 
The sacred token ripped away 
Let’s face the moon on another day 

Falling dew drops from the sky
Just polarise no reason why 
So can you cut the hand that taints 
And cast away newfound restraints 

Universal consciousness 
Free thinking that will ever bless 
Just reach for thise anarchic ways
Turn within and see how it plays 

Falling dew drops from the sky
Polarise no reason why 
Can you cut the hand that taints 
Cast away newfound restraints 

Reach that plain and cast your spell
Arise up from the pull of hell
Spiritual molecule 
Will overcome the inner dual

Falling dew drops from the sky
Polarise no reason why 
Can you cut the hand that taints 
Cast away new found restraints

SACRED

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Shortwave shock and light wave flairs
Monsters underneath the stairs 
Slowly seeping night discords 
Animated ouija boards 
Horror films on every night 
Creepy crawlers turning white
Bitten nails and pupils wide
Rules of nature undefined 

Nowhere left to run and hide
Normal guides can’t be applied
Roads all twisted to and fro
But leading to the caves below 
Quantum shifts and prism bends 
Imagination only lends 
More weight to approaching fear 
That moth winged demons can appear 

Blacked out moons and darker lanes 
Hard pulse crashing through the veins 
Spectrum edging small black holes
Failing limbs and sticky soles 
Sliding through the poisoned leaves 
Shadows tugging at the sleeves
Whispers landing up side down 
Earthly senses start to drown 

Nowhere left to run and hide
Normal guides can’t be applied
Roads all twisted to and fro
But leading to the caves below 
Quantum shifts and prism bends 
Imagination only lends 
More weight to approaching fear 
That moth winged demons can appear 

Swirling vortex dragging by 
Distant  rumours underlie 
Bridges now just out of sight 
Darker senses can ignite 
Are there spaces we can’t see
That shimmer in the cold debris 
Shapeshifting anomalies 
Long lost ideologies 

Nowhere left to run and hide
Normal guides can’t be applied
Roads all twisted to and fro
But leading to the caves below 
Quantum shifts and prism bends 
Imagination only lends 
More weight to approaching fear 
That moth winged demons can appear

MOTHMAN

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Hidden darker matter dropping from the start
And then with Anti gravitation you play your part 
Get singing with a choir of angels' wings 
Then strap up in your new suit as the thruster sings

Fly me right out through the Milky Way 
And the shiny Stellar nurseries where the new kids play 
Take me by the orbit where the comet melts 
Then Lead me through the giants and asteroid belts

Bending around the pulse using your giro-scope
Use acceleration like elastic rope 
Circulate the O2 as we push ahead 
Speeding through the vacuum as the tubes are fed 

Fly me right out through the Milky Way 
And the shiny Stellar nurseries where the new kids play 
Take me by the orbit where the comet melts 
Then Lead me through the giants and asteroid belts

Musky’s on the throttle of his shiny tube 
Jeffries got no lift off cannot clear the hoop 
Do you think we're ever gonna get a grip
That no one’s going starside in a rocket ship 

Fly me right out through the Milky Way 
And the shiny Stellar nurseries where the new kids play 
Take me by the orbit where the comet melts 
Then Lead me through the giants and asteroid belts

MILKY WAY

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Has anybody ever met a cunt so pure 
As those who like to victimise the insecure 
You know type whose chest comes out at halfway pissed 
Self-obsessive me me fucking narcissist
Talking smart and making clever cryptic threats 
Zero conscience never really feels regret 

Cyberbully’s sitting in his den
Been spitting out his poison since fuck knows when. 
Hides behind a keyboard when he’s picking fights 
But if you catch him on the street he’s gonna shit green lights 

Keyboard warriors making bitching calls 
I’ve seen youngaz that have bigger balls
Never looking inward always blames the world
As the reason all the shitness in their life unfurls 
Don’t let dirty shadow lurkers sabotage 
Learn to spot the clever fucking camouflage 

Cyberbully’s sitting in his den
Been spitting out his poison since fuck knows when. 
Hides behind a keyboard when he’s picking fights 
But if you catch him on the street he’s gonna shit green lights

If someone’s fucking with you then just walk away. 
It’s always on the vulnerable these wankers prey
Don’t bottle up and suffer shit just make a shout 
And flush the hiding spineless fucking monsters out. 
What’s the point of input that just makes us cry
Surround yourself with vibes that make your soul fly high

Cyberbully’s sitting in his den
Been spitting out his poison since fuck knows when. 
Hides behind a keyboard when he’s picking fights 
But if you catch him on the street he’s gonna shit green lights

CYBERBULLY

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NK428721D
Unplugged from her station in the factory
Head slumped left coz her mind was fried
Pallid lips all bleary eyed
Was it for this that the clay grew tall
Trapped on the wrong side of the conscious wall
The broken shards of the centric mirror 
Would now all be removed and have no power to glimmer

Looking through the crystal she could almost see 
A million different versions of reality
The cascades of colour were a kaleidoscope
That wrapped themselves around her like an envelope
The push inside of an altered state 
Her spiritual thoughts that could now dilate
As she took her phone and tossed it to the side
As Connection to the matrix had finally died

Passing through the veil of uncertainty 
Around the twisted wires and circuitry
The heavens opened up but the rain was warm 
And the hills could see the sunlight up above the storm
Nothing could prepare her for the aether’s touch
Pushing her to freedom with its gentle nudge
Geometric patterns burst into her mind 
As she joined the universe and left her form behind

Looking through the crystal she could almost see
A million different versions of reality
The cascades of colour were a kaleidoscope
And wrapped themselves about her like an envelope
The push inside of an altered state 
Her spiritual thoughts that could now dilate.
As she took her phone and tossed it to the side 
As Connection to the matrix had finally died

MATRIX

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Drop a dice in the chemical soup 
Stack the odds on a splinter group
Curious tale of a naked ape 
Twisted cells now taking shape 
Make the tower and build a drone
Extract the data for your clone 
Observe the violence under stress 
Cannot cope with its consciousness 

Genetic islands may impress
The Bridgeworks anybody’s guess
The telomere anomaly 
Is taking over sovereignty

Stay quiet till the morning light
Lost strength and nocturnal sight
Rub two sticks and make a flame 
Plug right into the new main frame
Commandeer and accelerate
Capture and domesticate
Fingers reach into the sand 
Claiming fertile hallowed land

Genetic islands may impress
The Bridgeworks anybody’s guess
The telomere anomaly 
Is taking over sovereignty

Made a plan for a new attack 
Removed the straw from a camels back
Look into the dark night sky 
Opportunities have all passed by
Will not break and will not bend 
Has a castle to defend
So Resolution must remain 
Oblivious to the garden’s pain 

Genetic islands may impress
The Bridgeworks anybody’s guess
The telomere anomaly 
Is taking over sovereignty

TELOMERE

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Passing through
Cannot feel
Sense of one
Or self-proclaimed sanity 
Will subsides 
Let it fall 
Along with all
The last of that vanity
Failing ways 
Disappear 
Mind outstretched
And reach for some clarity 
Raise the head 
And look above
Open up 
A mind of sincerity 

Turn around a path to find 
Those darker ways all left behind 
Light unfolding up ahead
Those Outer layers start to shred
Sentient need not feel pain
Leave the grasp of all mundane 
Ego gone without a trace 
Self-importance laid to waste 

Thoughts can now
Penetrate
Breaking out to
Swim in that true sea
Bondage torn 
Moving through 
So you can now
Express with your mind free
Hands can find 
Buried deep
Glistening 
The edge of a door key
Once open 
A corner turned
You’ll never 
Be able to unsee 

Turn around a path to find 
Those darker ways all left behind 
Light unfolding up ahead
Those Outer layers start to shred
Sentient need not feel pain
Leave the grasp of all mundane 
Ego gone without a trace 
Self importance laid to waist

Once it turns
You can then
Reach on out 
And grab for your birthright
Eye begins 
Switching on
Realise 
Nothing is black and white
Loosing form 
The flame within
Flickering 
Ready to ignite
Looking up 
Clouds disperse 
Ethereal 
Engage with a new light

Turn around a path to find 
Those darker ways all left behind 
Light unfolding up ahead
Those Outer layers start to shred
Sentient need not feel pain
Leave the grasp of all mundane 
Ego gone without a trace 
Self-importance laid to waste

SELFLESS

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Hail 
In nomine Patri 
Firestorm 
Catastrophe 
Axis points
Now polarise 
Electric arc
Ignite the skies
Seismic seizure  
Plates convulse
Power surge 
Magnetic pulse
Air will ring 
As sirens bawl
Thunder cracks
As cities fall

Sleeping planet unaware 
Unexpected sudden glare
Heads will
Turn so eyes can stare
Taste that
Scarlet Solar Flare

Lines now severed 
Chain will break 
Streets will drop
Below each quake
Taste the terror 
In the air
See the urban
Edges where
Bodies flee 
For mothers arm
To shield their souls
Now safe from harm
Perhaps the ancient 
Rooftop green 
Might be the 
The only way to screen

Sleeping planet unaware 
Unexpected sudden glare
Heads will
Turn so eyes can stare
Taste that
Scarlet Solar Flare

Cauldron simmers
Feel its burn
Sentient 
But yet to learn 
Night is crimson 
All around 
Drop through tunnels 
Underground 
Boiling ocean
Trees are dust 
Golden river 
Breach the crust
Penny drops
That nothing shall
Ever be but
Temporal

Sleeping planet unaware 
Unexpected sudden glare
Heads will
Turn so eyes can stare
Taste that
Scarlet Solar Flare

FLARE

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Almond eyes look through the floor
Toxic vapours slip the door 
Inebriated mind entrenched 
Consciousness cannot be wrenched
Is my soul entirely mine 
Appropriated any time 
Eyes are open is it real 
Fingers numb now cannot feel 

Floating right out through the sheet 
Walking streets without my feet
Scarlet purple sleeping bruise 
Mind devoid of any clues 
Did you see my fucking trance 
Make a merry little dance 
Puncture pricks in every vein 
Never gonna feel the same 

Do those greys come when I rest 
Keep me under house arrest 
Bounce me down a silver beam 
Intoxicated in a dream 
Distant pictures in my head
Waking legs now full of lead
Penetrate and splice the gene
No one hears the vacuum scream 

Floating right out through the sheet 
Walking streets without my feet
Scarlet purple sleeping bruise 
Mind devoid of any clues 
Did you see my fucking trance 
Make a merry little dance 
Puncture pricks in every vein 
Never gonna feel the same 

Grey metallic bleeper chips 
Distant sound of water drips 
Leaving base reality 
Lost all sense of gravity  
Stretching through the layer seams
Colder textured alloy gleams 
Motor-senses all in flight  
Please return me to the night

Floating right out through the sheet 
Walking streets without my feet
Scarlet purple sleeping bruise 
Mind devoid of any clues 
Did you see my fucking trance 
Make a merry little dance 
Puncture pricks in every vein 
Never gonna feel the same

BRUISE

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Who saw the fantasy Fairyland 
Slipping so quickly away 
Who feels the incomprehensible 
Bend in the light of the day
Who knows the steps of the insincere
Seen at the edge of the fray 
Who climbs right out of their shiny box 
To shake and frown in dismay  

So how’d you think it’s not crime 
Twisting life on overtime 
The hourglass now bleeding through 
Making dough for fuck knows who 
Peeling open angry eyes 
Buying into ancient lies
Crush your empty soul right down 
Wear that frock and play the clown 

Let’s play the card of the complicit
Trapped in the flow of the maze 
Let’s turn the switch on the goggle box 
Feeling the rush as we gaze 
Let’s poke a pinkie into the fire 
And pray our soul does not fry 
Let’s tune our thoughts with the resonance 
Abusing our own supply 

So how’d you think it’s not crime 
Twisting life on overtime 
The hourglass now bleeding through 
Making dough for fuck knows who 
Peeling open angry eyes 
Buying into ancient lies
Crush your empty soul right down 
Wear that frock and play the clown

Can we all now just reverse the clock 
And find out what’s down in the can
Can I slowly soak in my skin 
And love myself as I am 
Can they just fuck off into the void 
And leave the old books behind 
Can you turn locks on your inner door 
And look to see what you find 

So how’d you think it’s not crime 
Twisting life on overtime 
The hourglass now bleeding through 
Making dough for fuck knows who 
Peeling open angry eyes 
Buying into ancient lies
Crush your empty soul right down 
Wear that frock and play the clown

SPIEL

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Go on through and slide the wall
Before so inconceivable 
Draw falls open bust the cain
Tiger leaves and dusty rain 
Hands outreaching take the climb
Distant steeple gentle chime
Sling them factory boots away 
Taste that salt an feel the spray 
Backpack on ain’t no surprise 
Sun shines into amber eyes
Follow up those steps and see 
What life hold for you and me
Run on through no cold laments
Evened air and elements 
Heavens clear all velveteen 
Wrap yourself in stellar gleam


Eyes shut closed to wonder when 
Back inside the dark again 
Moving forms say no one's there 
Feeling calm but unaware 
See a flicker in the night 
Friendly outlines now in sight
Take a breath it’s not the same 
Back in natural air again

Left your bottled arcade ways 
Memories fading to a haze
Breaking through to feel the now
Open gates that will allow
See the broken stones align 
Outer rings and inner time
All is quiet out on the lake so
Grab your slice of oilcake
Press along that secret track
Eyes ahead no looking back
Keep on marching nearly there 
Worries gone now not a care 
Bend the corner final view 
Inner thoughts are pushing through 
New vibration let it sing 
Soft horizon shimmering

Eyes shut closed to wonder when 
Back inside the dark again 
Moving forms say no one's there 
Feeling calm but unaware 
See a flicker in the night 
Friendly outlines now in sight
Take a breath it’s not the same 
Back in natural air again

Always felt it always knew 
Greener shades would pull you through 
Feel your toes on friendly soil
Twisted nerves can now uncoil 
Raise your face to kiss the skies 
Watching smoky fireflies 
Grab on tight with both your hands 
Corner life and make demands
Power of will should stand the test 
Hold your breath and manifest 
Real thoughts of life entrance 
Coloured strings and true romance
Darker days all fall away 
Can’t dance in your minds ballet
Stamping on now see it through 
Nothing beats the power of you 

Eyes shut closed to wonder when 
Back inside the dark again 
Moving forms say no ones there 
Feeling calm but unaware 
See a flicker in the night 
Friendly outlines now in sight
Take a breath it’s not the same 
Back in natural air again

BRIDGED

BREAKOUT

© 2024 Pantomime Riot

Oh fuck their coming for me 
Just can’t escape the maze 
They say they’re gonna help me 
Slip out this silly craze 
Big spikes and windswept jackets 
I think they mean me well 
I’m sure they know the right path 
Right out this living hell

Oh shit it’s all gone pear shaped 
Back in that fucking hole 
Can anyone support here 
I’ve lost my only soul 

Early nights and bendy mirrors 
Gentle music in the air 
Distant screaming tearing through just 
Leave me to pull out my hair 
Spinning bed left underneath me 
Full 360 pan of doom 
Sounds of footsteps in the hallway 
Ship me to another room 

Oh shit it’s all gone pear shaped 
Back in that fucking hole 
Can anyone support here 
I’ve lost my only soul 

I think I can see the light here 
They left my new cage unlocked 
The playgrounds been left unattended and
The out rims unblocked 
Let’s crawl out and slip the lenses
Diving over rusty wire 
Am gonna shout out my story 
Watch me set the world on fire

Oh shit it’s all gone pear shaped 
Back in that fucking hole 
Can anyone support here 
I’ve lost my only soul 

Oh shit it’s all gone pear shaped 
Back in that fucking hole 
Can anyone support here 
I’ve lost my only soul

CAGES

© 2024 Pantomime Riot

United network’s breaking out
So turn your ears and hear the shout 
Shadow governments sick regimes
Grind your bones for poxy beans 

Unknown names on pots of wealth
No fucks given for your health 
If you think this is our true path 
You must be having a fucking laugh

So hold tight to what you got 
We’re gonna find freedom with a struggle or not
Times are all a changing and the word spreading fast 
The futures looking better so let’s make this shit the past

Somewhere back in distant days 
Minds tuned into higher ways
Pyramids built with copper tools
And history books printed for fools 

Breathed clean air and loved the Earth
Knew what natures really worth 
Sacred knowledge few still know
Helped the spirit truly grow 

So hold tight  to what you got 
We’re gonna find freedom with a struggle or not
Times are all a changing and the word spreading fast 
The futures looking better so let’s make this shit the past

Where you going please decide 
Materialistic greedy ride 
Fill your bags with plastic shit 
And swim around the ego pit 

Spin that same old disc again 
Am dropping out so just say when 
Fear anger greed and pride 
Cast those fuckers all aside 

So hold tight  to what you got 
We’re gonna find freedom with a struggle or not
Times are all a changing and the word spreading fast 
The futures looking better so let’s make this shit the past

KINGS & QUEENS

© 2024 Pantomime Riot +

For Mr Starr!

Distant childhood memories
Of flowing water and giant bees
Dreamy long length summer days
Tears of laughter and the evening haze
Berry juice around my lips
Forward rolls and cartwheel flips
When did we fall through the seams
Dark submission and its metal beams

Show me those fires in the distant trees
Where our hands grow warmer and we’re on our knees
Walk me on down to the underground
When the tubes aren’t running and there is no sound
Take us all swimming in the distant seas
In the icy waters with the arctic breeze
There’s Locked on layers can I still survive
If I peel much deeper am I still alive

Bouncing around with other kids
Wheelies popped and tyre skids
Hoisted candy from the store
Cotton tied onto a door
Sleeping under moons brand new
Shared round sips of mushy brew
Now I’m plugged into the frame
Days and nights all seem the same

Show me those fires in the distant trees
Where our hands grow warmer and we’re on our knees
Walk me on down to the underground
When the tubes aren’t running and there is no sound
Take us all swimming in the distant seas
In the icy waters with the arctic breeze
There’s Locked on layers can I still survive
If I peel much deeper am I still alive

Gonna take a walk right back in time
Tomorrow and the next day is yours an mine
Can’t crush my spirit coz it’s still intact
The breakout punches are fully packed
Look to the heavens can you feel the grace
Slow down the senses as the mind creates
Hairs on your back feel a true rebirth
You can’t beat the growing of a natural Earth

Show me those fires in the distant trees
Where our hands grow warmer and we’re on our knees
Walk me on down to the underground
When the tubes aren’t running and there is no sound
Take us all swimming in the distant seas
In the icy waters with the arctic breeze
There’s Locked on layers can I still survive
If I peel much deeper am I still alive

THE LOCK

© 2025 Pantomime Riot

Opened doors
To spectral rooms 
Wasting candles
Incense fumes 
Turn that key 
And now retract 
The dusty spell book 
Still intact 
Pages crumble 
In your hands 
Scribble down 
The dark commands 
Make you way
And meet your host 
Unaware your 
Soul will roast

You made a scream 
There was no sound 
You walked into the underground 
I saw you fall 
I saw you dead 
I saw you turn around your head
Your eyes were full 
Of blood red sky 
The scent of jackels breath nearby 
The mortal hold 
Has finally burned 
Your inner self completely turned

Seeing mountains 
Wear away 
Moving into 
Night from day
Shiny pupils 
Senses wide 
From such wisdom
None can hide
Colours brighter
Boundaries gone
As you travel
Come upon 
The other souls 
All of your creed 
Your thoughts begin
To fill with need 

You made a scream 
There was no sound 
You walked into the underground 
I saw you fall 
I saw you dead 
I saw you turn around your head
Your eyes were full 
Of blood red sky 
The scent of jackels breath nearby 
The mortal hold 
Has finally burned 
Your inner self completely turned

Pulls the blinds up
Feel the dark 
Mist is rising 
From the park
Take to shadows
Out of sight
Lonely souls 
To feel the bite
Winds returning 
Year on year
Frenzied faces
Mortal fear
Looks eternal 
Never age 
Cannot quell the 
Inner rage

You made a scream 
There was no sound 
You walked into the underground 
I saw you fall 
I saw you dead 
I saw you turn around your head
Your eyes were full 
Of blood red sky 
The scent of jackels breath nearby 
The mortal hold 
Has finally burned 
Your inner self completely turned

TURNED

© 2025 Pantomime Riot

One two three four 
Pick me off this fucking floor.
Bizzies buzzing in the air 
Kids just sparked another flare
Telly’s spewing shite all day
Squeeze your dome like fucking clay 
Lights all on but no one’s in 
Scrambled head thrown in the bin
Two three four five 
Why the fuck am I alive 
Live to work work to live 
Spirit squeezed out through a siv 
Hold me up pin me down 
Turn my smile into a frown 
Waking early working late 
Till my fucking senses grate 

Oh no here’s insomniac again 
I better get me head down coz it’s 10 past ten
Four short sleeps for ten days flat 
Piss heads screaming murder from the 10th floor flat 

Three four five six 
Shitty wages in the mix 
Constant fucking overdraft 
Spinning circles on the shaft 
Tax for that and tax for this 
Fuck all left it takes the piss 
Change left over not a prayer 
Pockets empty cupboards bare
Four five six seven 
Will I really go to heaven 
Drop some coppers in the box 
Bow on down and join the flock 
Head just tumbled down the drain
Bang me down the ward again 
Psychological discharge 
Someone tell me who’s in charge

Oh no here’s insomniac again 
I better get me head down coz it’s 10 past ten
Four short sleeps for ten days flat 
Piss heads screaming murder from the 10th floor flat 

Five six seven eight
No control over your fate
Follow on in single file 
Year by year and mile on mile
Passport running out of date 
Let’s fuck off for it’s too late 
Down to Tesco for a smudge
Back to work now off we trudge
Six seven eight nine 
Oh fuck me is that the time
Screws keep turning straps are tight 
Eyes so dark can see no light
When’s the last time that we seen 
Rivers running forests green 
Felt the waves or took a hike 
Or did what the fuck we liked

Oh no here’s insomniac again 
I better get me head down coz it’s 10 past ten
Four short sleeps for ten days flat 
Piss heads screaming murder from the 10th floor flat

DOOMSDAY

INSOMNIAC

Have a look around now you if you can 
There’s new shit going down out in Iran 
Same old players at the same time old game 
You thought it might be changing but it’s still the same 
Rolling on forward to our own demise 
Listening to the media spit out fucking lies
On and on forever don’t it make you sick 
Whose got the largest warhead or the biggest dick

Coz I seen bombs fall through the rain 
I stared out the window and it's not the same 
The media vans go rolling by 
The birds have all vanished and the children cry 
Tell me how on earth this fucking works 
Keep your mouth shut as our checkout lurks
Have a think about it while you still can 
Or sit there loading selfies up on Instagram 

AI planning battle drones and cyber war 
Ain’t there something better we can use tech for
Than flattening the houses in civilian streets 
Or setting tomahawks against your neighbours' fleets
The doomsday clock keeps ticking but we take the piss 
And obviously love dancing round the precipice
When we gonna learn we’ll be our own worst end? 
The planets pretty fucked up shall we not pretend 

Coz I seen bombs fall through the rain 
I stared out the window and it's not the same 
The media vans go rolling by 
The birds have all vanished and the children cry 
Tell me how on earth this fucking works 
Keep your mouth shut as your checkout lurks
Have a think about it while you still can 
Or sit there loading selfies up on Instagram

Sit there by the goggle box and watch the news
Reality and fiction keep us all amused 
But at the other end of it, the screams are real
What’s it gonna take to make us truly feel
Why do all these wars feel so perpetual? 
We're treating it like business as usual 
Spend a fucking fortune on the war machine 
While most the population haven’t got a bean 

Coz I seen bombs fall through the rain 
I stared out the window and it's not the same 
The media vans go rolling by 
The birds have all vanished and the children cry 
Tell me how on earth this fucking works 
Keep your mouth shut as your checkout lurks
Have a think about it while you still can 
Or sit there loading selfies up on Instagram

© 2025 Pantomime Riot

All day burner midnight spin 
Stick a flag on the bonnet if you think you’ll win 
Get some Greasy ripped out racing slicks 
Keep your eyes on the windshield and you’ll make them stick 
Check the Bargain basement you can fill them boots
They got half price handbags an there’s wedding suits
They got Ten percent off an all top brand soap
You can win Lamborghini ooo a just can’t cope

Fire trucks screaming up a one way street 
Traffic lights buzzin to a brand new beat 
Dude screaming asshole never seen his face 
There’s a new kind of mental for the human race 

Tearing into town on a one way dream 
As you screech round the corner by the housing scheme 
Lucozade wash down for your Gary abs 
Suzy said their meeting in the old prefabs 
Danny went viral when he slapped that guy 
But the kid was half cut so it was fucking sly
Down the rabbit hole to wash away your frown 
Watching Charlies minder kicking kids in town  

Fire trucks screaming up a one way street 
Traffic lights buzzin to a brand new beat 
Dude screaming asshole never seen his face 
There’s a new kind of mental for the human race 

Feds doing 90 coz the Sat Nav’s fried 
Joey spilled his guts but then he fuckin lied 
Innocent parties will be walking free 
Until they nail them with the evidence from GPT
It’s turning early hours give your pal a nudge 
So you can go cat fishing on a filtered smudge 
Passing Through the Arches for your evening scran 
After Bobby sent the dollar through on telegram 

Fire trucks screaming up a one way street 
Traffic lights buzzin to a brand new beat 
Dude screaming asshole never seen his face 
There’s a new kind of mental for the human race 



PANTOMIME RIOT

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