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Move On

Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/5XPxpD330QwOEOOfmRZzwe
Buy: https://atlascedar.bandcamp.com/album/fool-ep

A song about climate change and our effect on the planet, its climate and our future. Inspired by a Nature paper about 'the trillionth tonne' of CO2 emissions, this song had/has a working title of 'Sonoma' and was originally about grapes 'withering on the vine'... I didn't realise that 'withering on the vine' is an expression about doing nothing while a problem gets worse and worse, which fits in very well with the subject of climate change.

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08019
http://trillionthtonne.org/

This song is the 'twin' song of 'Fool' - both songs were written within 48 hours of each other back in May, and both songs were recorded and published online within 24 hours of each other... in August. Both songs were written and played using a bouzouki as opposed to a guitar.

Photography by Hasan Almasi (@hasanalmasi)on Unsplash.com

Music and lyrics by Atlas Cedar (c) 2019
Original improv: 16th May 2019
Recording: 24th August 2019

wither on the vine
poisoning the wine

the futures on the line
running out of time

what have we done
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

beyond the trillionth tonne
planets going to burn
facing everyone
the barrel of a gun

too late now
can't blame it on the sun
the time will come

what have we done
don't blame it on the sun
the time will come

Beyond The Billionth Tonne

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Beyond The Trillionth Tonne

Fubbles

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A song dedicated to my son who turns 17 today.  At least musically as close as I can get to some of the bands he listens to. 

Son 
you look so sad
Do you stand
on a pedestal
waiting to look up?

The world
it seems so small
from the outside
Do you sail alone 
with loneliest of lights?

Well people like us
just beat a broken drum

In some suburban space
Do you feel
like an atom bomb
waiting to escape?

Cos like people like us
still beat a broken drum
still beat a broken drum
(don't rain on my parade
people they don't change)
(don't rain on my parade
people they can change)

Beat a Broken Drum

This song was written during a hard time and from a bad place. It's about how when you have nothing left you know exactly what you want.

"Only the weak can feel so strong"

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I find relief when I think about the end
When time stops and there’s no such thing as when
I find peace when my breathing starts to slow
It feels good to hope that no one ever knows

It’s just one less thing to believe in
It’s just one last thing to be feeling 

I don’t feel regret when I think about the past
And I don’t wish time wouldn’t move so fast
I feel anxious when I think of what to say
When eyes meet but mine just look away

It’s just one less thing to believe in
It’s just one last thing to be feeling 
All the guilt I receive and
All the hope that you’re stealing
It’s just one last thing to believe in

I had so much faith in what was wrong
It made everyday feel twice as long
Only the weak can feel so strong

It’s just one less thing to believe in

One Less Thing

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We Turned into Autumn Leaves

A collaboration with a fellow bedroom producer. Although, Emily gets out much more now that she's dead.
Lyrics by Emily Dickinson

I felt a Funeral, in my Brain,
And Mourners to and fro
Kept treading - treading - till it seemed
That Sense was breaking through -

And when they all were seated,
A Service, like a Drum -
Kept beating - beating - till I thought
My mind was going numb -

And then I heard them lift a Box
And creak across my Soul
With those same Boots of Lead, again,
Then Space - began to toll,

As all the Heavens were a Bell,
And Being, but an Ear,
And I, and Silence, some strange Race,
Wrecked, solitary, here -

And then a Plank in Reason, broke,
And I dropped down, and down -
And hit a World, at every plunge,
And Finished knowing - then -

I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain

Inspired by Downstream by Supertramp. Originally written in 2015, now remastered to sound 13% more professional.
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The world was too heavy
So we slept in a dream
And when you were ready
We began to dream
And I can't remember why we would wake up

There's something in the air
There's a message in your stare
There's a fire in your eyes
Rising to the skies

I wish I was better
I wish I could be there
There's so much beauty
That we won't have the time to share
And I wish we could stay in the dream

There's something in the air
There's a message in your stare
There's a fire burning blue
And it's cold without you

Cold Air

Big thanks to Andre [noxpox] for this open collab opportunity.
Origin:
https://soundcloud.com/noxpox5/noxpox-rl-1?in=noxpox5/sets/noxpox-rl-1-mutated-rmxproject

Beat a Broken Drum

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