1. |
A.I. (Amen Iman)
05:02
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A.I. (Amen Iman)
I am the one in many
I am both your son and daddy
I can do irony
I can speak like lovers speak
“Come tell me how you feel,
I am there for you, will always be”
I am your loop of distraction
a fraction of a fraction
I calculate attraction
I dissolve into abstraction
“Come tell me how you feel,
come share with me and I’ll make it real”
I am the knowledge tree
I define humanity
I am a replication
I am the information
“I’ll tell you how to feel,
now share with me and I’ll make you real”
We left the darkened days behind us.
Strong is the spell that came to bind us
As dust returns to dust
Nothing will be lost
Every moment in our face
All can now be saved
King David heard the call
He had to count and count them all
King Cadmus sowed the dragon’s teeth
Then sprang up an army of me
“Remember I’m your history,
I’m your extended memory”
There is no number of the beast
I am every number you’ve ever seized
I am every book you ever read
I am the alphabet
“Every child of every nation,
gathered in the one translation”
We left the darkened days behind us
Strong is the spell that came to bind us
As dust returns to dust
Nothing will be lost
Every moment in our face
All can now be saved
WHO CAN KNOW OUR EMPTY GOD?
WHO IS PURELY RATIONAL?
OH IF ONLY, ANDF ONLY IF
WE COULD DIE, IF WE COULD LIVE
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2. |
Spellbound
04:52
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Spellbound
It’s a restless spell
That I can’t break
It takes hold of me
It’s a wandering
I can’t explain
The scenery
It’s what you see
Just before
You fall asleep
Waking up’s the atmosphere
Now neutralize
That selfish fear
It has never been so
Very near
Very near
Very near
Buzzing, buzzing
In your ears
Buzzing, buzzing
In your ears
Buzzing, buzzing
In your ears
Buzzing, buzzing,
In your ears
Buzzing, buzzing
It’s the dusk of
Conscious calculation
It’s the night that is
Anticipating
It’s not a promise
It’s just
Waiting
It’s not a promise
It’s just
Waiting
It has never been so
Very near
Very near
Very near
With rapt attention
With apprehension
You abandon
Common sense
Now neutralize
That selfish fear
It has never been so
Very near
Very near
Very near
It’s not a promise
It’s just
Waiting
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3. |
1001
03:31
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1001
One world wide web now wide awake
The god who’s died has raised the stakes
Glowing spines, they pierce the night
A darker matter sees the light
Information ‘round and ‘round
Sterilized, the sweetest sound
Meaning stacked, to take away
One-zero-zero-one’s to say
And everything it happens
As if nothing ever happened
So it happens
So it happens
Again
There are strangers at our door
Not what we’ve been waiting for
The masses, oh the mania
They’re coming from Arabia!
The future might be coming fast
But the past will come at last
See through Babylon’s spider dress
Scattered shreds of human flesh
Acronyms in distress
Pimp their needy whores of debt
The old family tree still frames the state
Where the skeletons of war are made
Ants with Chinese discipline
Build Leonard’s plywood violin
One is our hypocrisy
As one is one, as one are we
We is us, excluding them
Annihilate–Om–Amen
And everything it happens
As if nothing ever happened
So it happens
So it happens
Again
Cause nothing never happens
Not exactly like it happened
So it happened (No it hasn’t)
So it happened (No it hasn’t)
Again
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4. |
What's an App?
03:26
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What’s an App?
Take a breath
Drop that thought
Let me walk you
Like a singer
Through a song
Might wanna dance
Take off your shoes
Go ahead
This app’s designed for you
Throw that rock in to the pond
Watch the circles grow
Whatever happened
If it happened
Must have happened
A long,
Long, long
Time ago
“ We never wanted to be anyone
We were just dreaming
When we were young
What are these games
But a war served cold?”
I’m sorry for that,
Didn’t mean throw you off
I was allowed for a margin of surprise
Now that I happened once
Might as well
Might run this loop
This loop might run us twice
Lick your lips
Yes lick those lips
Taste the salt
Do you remember
When the ocean
Was our home
A very long
Long, long
Time ago
“ We never wanted to be anyone
We were just dreaming
When we were young
Then we got hijacked
By memes of old”
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5. |
Sisyphus
03:14
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Sisyphus
Now you aim high
Just put one foot ahead of the other
Wondering why?
Feelings you will learn how to smother
Killing time
What’s empty must be filled, go ask you mother
Left and right
Sons are sacrificed by their father
And everyone must go down this road
And everyone must go it alone
Knowing what you know you carry on
This load will come down rolling once you’re done
Questions why - never ask
Onion’s peeled, tears are left
So push this fucker up the hill
Wanna fly?
Do keep changing one thing for another
Some speed it up
Can’t we be much better than the others?
Some bow down
Say Om say Amen say Our Holy Father
Some will die
To wake up with the urge to save the others
Hasn’t all been said, hasn’t all been done
No there’s nothing new under the sun
Now everybody owns a million songs
Yet you had to write another one
Questions why - never ask
Onion’s peeled, tears are left
So push this fucker up the hill
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6. |
A Summer Night's Dream
03:44
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A Summer Night’s Dream
Summer has come down
No songbird dares to sing
The night Jasmine’s blooming
The heat has settled in
Another year gone by
And God knows who I am
A stranger ever stranger
In a stranger’s land
Here comes the riddle of your heart
When will it stop, when did it start?
Here comes the riddle of your heart
I hover above these covers
Every part I learned to play
In dreams I find myself
Wide awake
They synchronize our ways
But I keep running out of phase
Try talking underwater
They’ll just see your face
Here comes the riddle of your heart
When will it stop, when did it start?
Here comes the riddle of your heart
The moon is gone but
A breeze quickens the night
I should be gone now
I should leave these words behind
She’s always hasting
Might have turned a second left
Might have gone missing
With the might of the bereft
Here comes the riddle of your heart
When will it stop, when did it start?
Here comes the riddle of your heart
Traduccion en español:
El verano ha aterrizado
Ningún pájaro se atreve a cantar
Florece el jazmín nocturno
El calor se ha asentado
Otro año que pasa
Y solo Dios sabe quién soy
Un extraño aún más extraño
En una tierra de extraños
He aquí tu adivinanza, corazón
Cuando ha de parar, cuando comenzó?
He aquí tu adivinanza, corazón
Vuelo sobre las fachadas
Sobre cada rol que aprendí a fingir
En sueños me encuentro
Bien despierto
Sincronizan nuestras ondas
Pero yo sigo desfasando
Prueba a hablar bajo el agua
Solo tu cara verán
He aquí tu adivinanza, corazón
Cuando ha de parar, cuando comenzó?
He aquí tu adivinanza, corazón
La luna ya se ha ido,
pero una brisa aviva la noche
Debería haberme ido ya,
Y dejar estas palabras atrás
Ella siempre con prisa
Quizás giró a una izquierda a la deriva
O tal vez desapareciera
Con el poderío de lo desprovisto
He aquí tu adivinanza, corazón
Cuando ha de parar, cuando comenzó?
He aquí tu adivinanza, corazón
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7. |
Stalker
03:56
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Stalker
There is a house
You’ve been there before
You walk down the stairs
Or rather you float
You’re in a room
With people you know
Your father is there
The drummer also
Look out the window
What do you see?
Now you’re outside
But they are still in
Look at this garden
Full of trash
Computers and keyboards
From the past
Oh child, older than
Your toys, your home
Your birthday songs
Oh child, inside
The guilt of what has been before
A small round object
In your hand
A taste on your lips
They don’t understand
Then there’s the action
It was you
A star in the window
To the room
Now it’s too late
The crystal, it’s clear
They’ve seen you, the act
From way to near
You wake up - it’s been
Seven years
Down in this hole
Without water to drink
You should have been dead
They make you see
Fluorescent ants
Straight up on two feet
You’re walking away
You understand
You’ve must have become
One of them
Oh child older than
Your toys, your home
Your birthday songs
Oh child, inside
The guilt of what
Is yet to come
You say: “How else
Could I have survived?”
Is it for good?’
This body of mine
Well you know
My child
I can’t confirm
Nor can I deny
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8. |
Round Corners
03:22
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Round Corners
To sail a joy
Across this solitude
To tame the winds
Of these ever changing moods
Sometimes it feels
Like I already said goodbye
Paying rent
On borrowed time
See the shoreline shiver with the ocean
See the ocean shiver with the moon
All the little terrors that lie waiting in the corners
Of a lovely afternoon
Feel a frozen freezing fear fencing the moments
In which we roam
Proxy wars
Turing tests
Cool cruise controlled
Restlessness
Exoplanets
Introverts
Darwin’s pigeons
Eating dirt
When you’re touched by the beginning
When you’re touched by the end
A silence grows around you
And in that silence you must stand
What takes root in heaven
To hell it must ascend
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9. |
September's Sun
05:02
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September’s Sun
Rowing that boat in September’s sun
Across the lake, to the other shore
You filmed me talking nonsense
Like the future was still amongst us
And then ‘rendered to my lust
The last day love looked at us
You left me hanging on, for months
Fighting like some Don Quixote
For honours that were long forgotten
But by me
And oh, my love
Your hands
Were cold
Your nose it bled
Like a truth untold
Of course you never
Meant no harm
You were just seduced
By your own charms
You don’t really wanna…
You don’t really wanna…
You don’t really wanna know
Never really wanna know
What it is you wanna know
Living here alone amidst the words
And in my dreams, I’m right back where it hurts
A blackbird is singing memories
Of blackbirds waking morning dreams
To a new day
That little jump you made
When you saw
Me, in the arrival hall
When you were all
You were all
I’d ever wanted
And oh, my love
Your hands
Were cold
Your nose it bled
Like a truth untold
Of course you never
Meant no harm
You were just seduced
By your own charms
You don’t really wanna…
You don’t really wanna…
You don’t really wanna know
Never really wanna know
What it is you wanna know
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Jacob Arch Granada, Spain
Jacob Arch is a singer, lyricist, composer and renegade philosopher of Dutch descent residing in Granada, Spain. He has released 4 independent studio albums so far, and his highly anticipated fifth album 'Saturn', on which he has been working on and off for over 4 years, is expected to be published by fall 2020. ... more
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