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The band Steam Powered Giraffe's space opera album!

Join the robots on a cosmic adventure as they journey into space with this two hour long 2-disc space opera featuring new age, rock, pop, and folk genres, all on 28 tracks!

Check out the Vice Quadrant Companion Timeline!
A timeline made by the band that helps tell the story of The Vice Quadrant along with the album!: http://steampoweredgiraffe.com/index.php/vqtimeline/

The Vice Quadrant

On A Crescendo

Lyrics:

Love letters scattered on the floor
One minute you say you love me, the next you say you’re bored
How am I supposed to know where your brain is at
Let me into your mind, I won't hurt you like that

I'll love you until the world runs out of pens
For the love letters I'll write to you
And the things that go unsaid

Love letters on the floor
With all that I would do for you, I'd never get bored
All I need is a little moral support
Let's make it through this night, you know I'm yours

I'll love you until the world runs out of pens (oh endlessly)
For the love letters I'll write to you
And the things that go unsaid
I'll love you ‘till all the trees dry out and rot
No paper to be made, no place for my thoughts

If all else fails, you'll hear my songs
Know the gestures I’ll make for you to feel loved
I'll love you ‘till all the stars burn out and die
Just our spark to light up the night 

(Oh, oh love letters scattered on the floor)

Mixed by Jonathan
https://soundcloud.com/meatmountains

Beat by Nathan P. on Youtube

love letters

I was hoping
You’d lead me to the ocean
And I could pull you under there
It’s always been
Sink or swim
I was hoping
You’d render an emotion
 How terrible it must be
To be concerned 
All the time
About time
Time

Every chance is your last
Put some muscle in it
Put your goddamn
  
Back into it
Feel the freedom of your obligation
Back into it
Held in place by the skin of your teeth
It would take a machine
To put the fear of god back into me

I was wretched
A little lie
A  sacrifice
I took what’s forsaken
Into my hands
You understand
I was letting you know
That the useful thoughts
Are the first to go
The rest  are waiting
For me to call t time
Because it’s about  time
About that time.

Every chance that you get
Bash your skull into it
Put your goddamn

Back into it
Feel the freedom of your obligation
Back into it
Held in place by the skin of your teeth
It would take a machine
To put the fear of god back into me

How cruel that they coddled you
It would take a machine to break the news
How cruel that they coddled you
It  would take a m machine, construction fee’s on me


Back Into It

Lost my brain cells in an experiment
You think i’d regret it
But I can’t remember because
I’ve got it all
Lost my train of thought by accident
now I can’t assure myself that I exist
But I’ve got got it all

Fiction can 
Slap the hands of providence
Leave me wanting what i have and more
Function
Orders every element
Vacuum of the evidence
Abhorred

Found an easy way to distract
Until the me that is that train of thought  is dead
I’ve got it all
He had it all
Researching myself on the internet
Learned that I might be eating when I don’t know that I am
I’ve got it all

Consumed
What was put in front of me
Like scarcity is someone else’s chore
Exhumed
Markers for uncertainty
The fire of stochasticity 
Will keep me warm


I've Got It All

I’m up to my neck
In counteroffers
I’m splitting open
I feel excluded
When I am reading
The future
I do this all the time
I’m tired of your warnings
An omen tells the time
You think I wouldn’t notice

The cycles were already  built in
You should have taken note  when you filled in

I’m already automatic
Don’t know who I am or what I did
But I know that I tore these walls down with my god damn
I don’t want to fight about it
I built a war machine and it gets hungry for me
It’ll beat you with its god damn
If you belonged then you would know
If there was any danger
Don’t  wanna get aggressive
But if I’m cornered I still know that it’s an option
I’ll beat you with my goddamn
Fists.

Dodged a nearly fatal
Encounter
With monsters invented to suffer
I get erased when
Replaced with
A  favorable model
I do this all the time
I’m tired of your warning
The battery ran dry
The gears are barely turning

But you didn’t see me kick the gear shaft
I’m patiently waiting for what’s left

I’m already automatic
Don’t know who I am or what I did
But I know that I tore these walls down with my god damn
I don’t want to fight about it
I built a war machine and you are not invited
It’ll beat you with your god damn
If you belonged then you would know
If there was any danger
Don’t wanna get aggressive
But if I’m cornered I still know that it’s an option
I’ll beat you with my goddamn
Fists.

And braver men than me
Never know that they’re machines.

I’m already automatic
Don’t know who I am or what I did
But I know that I tore these walls down with my god damn
I don’t want to fight about it
I built a war machine and it gets hungry for me
It’ll beat you with its god damn
If you belonged then you would know
If there was any danger
Don’t  wanna get aggressive
But if I’m cornered I still know that it’s an option
I’ll beat you with my goddamn
Fists.




Fists

I never learned
The proper ways
And now the weight
Is pressing down
I thought i’d  be
In a more stable place
By  now
I’ll never stray
Though it may ache
Sometimes to put
The pen to page
No mistake
Is any end
Of any world

Gossamer thin
Such a small incision
Such an empty plenum
We’re working within
Gossamer thin
I promise I learned
Not to take for granted after 
So long
I wanted it 
So long
Gossamer thin
I count my blessings
And I count this occlusion
As one of them

I never earned
A proper stake
In any trade
And now that time
Is passing by
For slowing hands
It’s enough to slip away
I need to re-evaluate
With fresher eyes
Because no delight
Is any means
Unto itself
Except to find  

Gossamer thin
Such a small incision
Such an empty plenum
We’re working within
Gossamer thin
I promise I learned
Not to take for granted after 
So long
I wanted it 
So long
Gossamer thin
I count my blessings
And I count this occlusion
As one of them


Gossamer

Steam Powered Giraffe is in another video game!
9 years after the band did music for the video game SteamWorld Heist, they did more music for SteamWorld Heist II!

The album Music From SteamWorld Heist II features 15 new original full-length songs written and performed just for the game! That's right! It's a full album-sized album of brand new songs! But wait there's more! The album is also has special instrumental versions of every song! 30 tracks in total!

For this album, we've got songs by Rabbit, Zer0, and The Spine with a quasi-nautical theme and of course a plethora of tasty vocal harmonies! We also had Lacey Johnson (our newest live concert backing musician and singer) contribute her instrument and vocal abilities to some of the songs on the album too!

The Steam Rises

Sparks Will Fly

Solitaire

Act Iv: Rebirth in Reprise

Is There Anybody Here?

Homestuck Filk, for the Rose/Kanaya pairing.

(c) Hannah M/PhemieC 2011 

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LYRICS
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You've got a new dress, you're a quick change actress
Your lipstick slides out of it's sheath
You're my neon-veined day-glow dame, how do you speak
With your tongue pressed so tight to your teeth?

You've got a lot of dead friends on this rock where we're floating
And there's darkness ahead, but I think it's worth noting
We're candles, we're matches, we're lights on a wire
So come with me, please, be my Sylph set on fire

In all honesty, I expected to be 
So exceptionally unimpressed
I do not trust kindness, in kindnesses lies are hid
And oft topped with makeup and winningly dressed

But you've got a mind, and if you don't mind me saying
It resides in a beauty not slightly betraying
You luminesce, I confess, I guess you're no liar
So come with me, please, be my Slyph set on fire

Back Into It

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