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1.
Colour 03:24
I exercise twice daily now Why can't I breathe This city now, it suffocates Is it just me? I walk around, I talk it up I quit coffee I socialise but I can't disguise Just how I feel (Instrumental) I customise, I rearrange Make it my own I move in small circles now Nowhere to go On paper now, I'm feeling like I can't complain But being around This city now, it's getting stale Chorus: Colour, where'd you go Kill me slowly, muted tones Turned down low I cultivate an aura now I choose my clothes So carefully, I'm walking tall Look like I know But underneath I'm dreaming of Another place Another me, forever now Or just a taste (Chorus x2) My food is lacking taste I let it go to waste No longer moved by art Music you break my heart My food is lacking taste I let it go to waste No longer moved by art Music you break my heart (Chorus x2)
2.
Close the doors, buildings wait To persist, to remain so dark and brooding To protect the absent humans, oh yeah And moonlight shines Through the ripped office blinds In the corridors the dust dances In the tiny gusts of stale air Chorus: Oh won't you creep beside me Through abandoned buildings Won't you defeat the fear inside me By standing near The cracks in the walls The noise of tall abandoned buildings Show me the city from the roof and Whisper in my ear In these halls children played On these walls hang the paintings And the calenders With mandarin reminders on them Through my soles it vibrates Because I know That the built it on the cheap And now it sinks into the deep Inch by inch (Chorus) Come with me, take my hand Topmost floor I have candle-lit a room, yeah Made it a bit more human for us Leave two sets of footprints, yeah I haven't felt this good since it began (Chorus)
3.
Cosmonaut 03:24
Could it be They launched and forgot about me? The dials and the counters agree I am not where I'm meant to be Is this true? Is this something a human could do? Was it so secret nobody knew? Blue planet I bid you adieu Once more I turn up the volume and roar привет you son of a whore What was I supposed to explore? Can you hear me? Do you speak my tongue? What great nation do you hail from? Are you old? Are you young? Is my plight known to anyone? Will you tell the world what they have done? I'm pale How long till my life support fails? Gets closer with every exhale Is this what the mission entails? And is this true? Is this something a human could do? Was it so secret nobody knew? Not even the poor bastard who flew Will you tell the world what they have done?
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Reversism 04:14
Let, let the colours fade Procrastinate, delay Aspire to getting by That's our way Why can't you do it right? Drink and smoke and fight Pretend you're someone else Wait, wait Can I see some identification? 'Cause I don't believe you are who you are You might have got past emigration But you won't get too far Not with that smile on your face Not with those clothes When you're on your way up baby We'll pull you down by your toes 'Cause you've got the wrong blood in your body You've got the wrong brain in your head As soon as you start to be somebody We'll wish you were dead Yeah, with that smile on your face With that gleam in your eye The only thing we hate more than a looser is Someone whose doing fine Play fair, team player We have opened our arms to you Act slightly, step lightly Gotta see the project through And don't stop the rot, embrace it, face it Nobody here has a clue Act slightly, step lightly Credit, where credit's due But can you believe, can you believe Can you believe the nerve of this guy? x4 Let, let the colours fade Procrastinate, delay Aspire to getting by That's our way Why can't you do it right? Drink and smoke and fight Pretend you're someone else Wait, wait Can I see some identification? 'Cause I don't believe you are who you are You might have got past emigration But you won't get too far Not with that smile on your face Not with those clothes When you're on your way up baby We'll pull you down by your toes

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released June 10, 2011

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Sounds of System Breakdown London, UK

Sounds of System Breakdown is a live electronic music project led by London-based Dubliner Rob Costello. It began as a response to passive, head-in-laptop elec- tronica - an attempt to bring live instruments to bear on the flow and structure of dance music.

Now it exists as a kinetic, instrument-swapping three-piece - with longtime collaborators Ed Costello and Richy Kelly.
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