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Boldly Going
03:54
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Incalculable numbers
At unfathomable distances
Glitter and blink above me
Like a sequinned blanket
And all the while there's me
Alone on an empty road
No street lamps here
No hum of traffic
Just the sound of my feet
And the draw of my breath
And the heavens open up
Their magnificence for me alone
And there is a satellite
Cutting its path across the firmament
Signals and data all invisible
But I know it's there
And a full moon is rising
From over my horizon
Bringing a light so bright
It's casting sharpened shadows
And I think of the people
Working up there in space
Building a future
And running their experiments
And of rovers on Mars
They're drilling and tasting
And sending back pictures
Like the desert in Morocco
And only this week
We saw the launch of Falcon Heavy
With its cargo of Starman
Inside a Tesla Roadster
The draw and the pull of space
Its influence like a magnet
Like a mountain that's there and says
It's time you come and climbed me
And I think I'm kinda lucky
To be living in the space age
Seeing all these things
And feeling full of wonder
Remembering Apollo
And the men on the moon
The Eagle has landed
And what that giant leap meant
And here I still am
Walking down this dark road
Looking above me
With a crick in my neck
And wondering now
Where all this is heading
While all I am doing
Is walking to the pub
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The Golden Spike
04:05
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52.5163 South
By 169.1552 East
Planted here in 1905
I've been quietly growing
And all this while, that I've been alive
I've also been quietly recording
Out here on my own
I wasn't meant to be
But now forever known
As the loneliest tree
Beautiful record, golden spike
The great acceleration of human impact
Global boundary stratotype, section and point
There in the rings, that hidden artifact
Out here on my own
I wasn't meant to be
But now forever known
As the loneliest tree
Carbon 14 and all that means
Congratulations, we've made our mark
Welcome to the Anthropocene
Out here on my own
I wasn't meant to be
But now forever known
As the loneliest tree
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Quietly Loud
04:31
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It was there, for all to see
Back then, so long ago
We used to laugh, and let you be
We raised a monster
The writing was on the wall
In letters bold and black
It was clear to one and all
But no, we just laughed
We let you become this
We helped you become this
And now we cross the street
We look the other way
We let you become this
We helped you become this
While you bask in what
You think you are
Could you stop, would you stop?
Was there another way?
I wonder if we'd said
Would you still be in our lives today?
I know that fault, lays at our door
The thing you were, it made you proud
It grew the way that weeds will grow
We watched, as you got quietly loud
We let you become this
We helped you become this
And now we cross the street
We look the other way
We let you become this
We helped you become this
While you bask in what
You think you are
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ian harvey Diss, UK
so many things in life change for so many reasons but if there's one thing that remains a straight path through my life and everything that goes on in it, that's music...a song or a tune i wrote at some random point in time will tell me a story, document what was going on at that time and enhance that memory...i'm constantly exploring styles & methods and holding to my own path... ... more
ian harvey recommends:
What The Night Delivers...
by Scott Matthews
sublime in every detail...
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this album seriously blew my mind!...
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Decision Time - Remixes Part 3
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Klartraum - liquid dreams I [Psybient Album]
by Klartraum, Nadja Lind, Helmut Ebritsch
Expansive 15+-minute psydub that settles in like mist over the ocean, creating wonderfully moody atmospheres.
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