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Abandoned Buildings

from Colour by Sounds of System Breakdown

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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)

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from Colour, 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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