1. |
Soviet Union Playboy
03:11
|
|||
I must be the only one in 2147
Who feels they were born in the wrong generation
Said 2.7 billion children as they looked for themselves
On the internet
It's way too lonely, I'm feeling only
Connections from my digital feed
This must be love and
I'll have to trust in the mechanics of the
Twenty-second century
On my brand new antidepressants
I feel like a soviet union playboy
On a hunt
Ну заяц, Ну погоди
But I invented that reference
I was only born 140 years
After the fall of the Berlin Wall
Looks like I missed all the fun
I got wasted
They took me home in a taxi
That still can't fly
Back to the Future was a lie
Fuck you Marty McFly
Great Scott
It's way too lonely, I'm feeling only
Connections from my digital feed, I'm an
Imaginary dandy from a
Soviet Union Playboy magazine
It's way too lonely, I'm feeling only
Connections from my digital feed, I'm an
Imaginary dandy from a
Soviet Union Playboy magazine
|
||||
2. |
Blood economy
03:36
|
|||
Vampiric exercise in the gym at night
You can't waste your daylight
Work your hours
Or you'll get fired
And the milennials thought that the housing crisis was tough a century ago
Now there's 10 billion mouths to feed
10 billion souls
Hey, I don't trust you
You were born on the moon colony
You'll steal my job in this blood economy
There's no place for you on earth
The stimulants I take
Keep me awake for longer
And I can sleep when I'm dead
Then I won't feel hunger
With VR therapy to keep me sane
We are lovers but I'm paranoid
That you collect my data
Every time you listen to me
But a few pills put me in the mood
I get a few thrills then I'm out the door
There's voices down the corridor
And shadows In my head
Hey, I don't trust you
You were born on the moon colony
You'll steal my job in this blood economy
There's no place for you on earth
|
||||
3. |
Electric Love
04:34
|
|||
By the table with the levitating menus
I see your electric eyes
And any time I come by
You seem to generate that smile for me
The breakfast menu never changes
I'll have the usual, please
It's bittersweet
I'm always there
Wearing glasses with the paid subscription
Augmented reality feature
The space cafe never changes
And I'm still the same
Just a retro-fetishist seventies-sci-fi freak
Drinking my morning coffee
This reality is over the moon
The climate crisis was the last one
At the cost of our passions
And I'm feeling something strange inside
I can't reach for love but I can fly
Past the rings of Saturn
Oh My
Vision sharpens, my senses overdrive
I see a pretty thing I wanna dance with
But first I'll say hi to David Bowie's hologram
Ziggy's still in fashion, the latest model replicates his voice
But then she takes my hands and glides with me
Through the hologram that's singing songs
Of electric love
This reality is over the moon
The climate crisis was the last one
At the cost of our passions
And I'm feeling something strange inside
I can't reach for love but I can fly
Past the rings of Saturn
|
||||
4. |
VOYAGER 1
03:43
|
|||
We try to climb up to heaven
Cause quantum physics could not explain
Our God
Engraved in gold on a record
Voyager One's
Memory of Earth
Floating out in space
Like humanity's cries on
Radio waves
Our only footprint in the universe and
Why do we think that the aliens care about
A type zero point eight civilization
That tries to reach for the stars
By sending a Tesla roadster to orbit Mars
We try to climb up to heaven
Cause quantum physics could not explain
Our God
Engraved in gold on a record
Voyager One's
Memory of Earth
Will be a future relic
It will belong to the past
Like the bones of saints and catholic mass
And our concentration spans
In the attention-deficit generation
Don't you sometimes listen to half a song
Then take it off before the record ends
You know, I had a crazy dream last night
It was about people gathering in a room and experiencing death by instant disconnection from the program, resulting in the experiential merging of everyone present as part of a unified singularity
Yeah that makes no sense
Also, it says that for this café we need the Stardust overlay
Does it need a subscription?
Yeah
Man, why do all these overlays have a paywall?
Yeah, right I just wanted to check this place out
You know, I think I'll head on home I got some of those new pills I wanna try
It's not the first time you thought you should disconnect
But they'd make it all so inconvenient
And their ethical concerns must be prominent
Then you turn off the overlays and screens
Take pills to lucid dream
And you're flying
With increasing speed
|
||||
5. |
||||
The one true prophet
AliExpress has reached the west past the
Great Firewall of China
Increasing state production, conquering's the manifest behind the
Great Firewall of China
I hear the sirens
And someone's gone again
I thought I knew them well
I guess I'm wrong again
There's a red house over yonder
My friends and I sometimes wonder
What the cameras are for
And what they do behind the door
Keep out the Mongol hordes and western propaganda with the
Great Firewall of China
Ensure no thought crime and unpatriotic slander with the
Great Firewall of China
My friend's a black sheep
But white's the only way
We use a VPN to watch the NBA
And yesterday we saw the statue
They made us bow at his feet
And I wondered who is he
Looks like Winnie the Pooh to me
I wear my party emblem proudly on my chest, protecting the
Great Firewall of China
I love my warden and my labour camp's the best behind the
Great Firewall of China
An empire of thousand years will never be oppressed behind the
Great Firewall
|
||||
6. |
Camel and the horse
03:43
|
|||
Oil, they've run out of oil
They're all unemployed
I can't sell my stocks cause they're null and void
Withdrawal of US support
The peacekeeping force
Had to resort
To the camel and the horse
We've got the remedy
Pledge your support
We'll bring some culture
To the tourist resorts
We'll build a rave scene
On the spoils of war
Welcome to Persia
In Twenty One 'O Four
Crime, expression is crime
Law and order's divine
They'll stone you to death
Cause you have an open mind
Subcultural lines
Will mark the divide
And defectors keep joining
The protesting side
They've got the remedy
Pledge your support
They'll bring some culture
To the tourist resorts
They'll build a rave scene
On the spoils of war
They'll free Persia in Twenty One 'O Four
Secret fire, deserted order
Secret fire, deserted order
Secret fire, deserted order
Through darker days, in sights of Mordor
The company ever moving northward
Through darker days, in sights of Mordor
The company ever moving northward
Through darker days, in sights of Mordor
The company ever moving northward
Through darker days, in sights of Mordor
The company ever moving northward
Through darker days, in sights of Mordor
The company ever moving northward
Through darker days, in sights of Mordor
The company ever moving northward
|
||||
7. |
Two-and-a-half Serpents
03:21
|
|||
Pulling in the driveway
I take off my tie
Man, those freak kids next door
Got no education or drive
Oh, my son and daughter
Never gonna end up that way
They better get real jobs
And have a career someday
Honey I'm home, my promotion's secure
I'm the head supervisor of the advertising board
Respect is not on bended knee
To serpent tongues of corporate authority
The bricks fly through my mirrors
Happy home - two-and-a-half serpents raised as my own
There's time for vacation
And time for the wolves
Pray for deliverance
While they prey on you
To my timepiece I'm a mistress
To the markets - I'm a whore
Your attention's my product
Now buy, buy, buy
Respect is not on bended knee
To serpent tongues of corporate authority
The bricks fly through my mirrors
Happy home - two-and-a-half serpents raised as my own
Respect is not on bended knee
To serpent tongues of corporate authority
The bricks fly through my mirrors
Happy home - two-and-a-half serpents raised as my own
Respect is not on bended knee
To serpent tongues of corporate authority
With sacrificial rituals of war economy
Eternal flames cremating, ashes spread
While you scale the apex of instinctive dread
All love is lust and you lost yourself
Cause your lifestyle was designed by someone else
Two-and-a-half serpents' fangs inject venom in your chest
Respect is not on bended knee
Respect is not on bended knee
Respect is not on bended knee
Respect is not on bended knee
Respect is not on bended knee
|
||||
8. |
Eastern Fashion
03:54
|
|||
Slowly as you pull the handbrake
And step out on the street
Look down and turn up your headphones
There's blood in the snow at your feet
And you frame it in a shot with a caption
It's removed, that's not allowed on the feed
But did they flag an inappropriate shadow?
Or is the shadow in your post too real?
Oh baby
They're not really there for you
Oh baby
My fangs are dripping red on you
Oh baby
No crucifix or stake on you
Oh baby
The prophets only lied to you
You tell yourself it's just a nightmare
The pills will surely help you sleep
While others seek out paths through the alleys
Dissatisfaction to vision will lead
In the villa, the villa they find me
In Eastern fashion, persistence is key
I'd like to show you but you're not curious
Not curious enough for me
Oh baby
They're not really there for you
Oh baby
My fangs are dripping red on you
Oh baby
No crucifix or stake on you
Oh baby
You think you know it all, don't you?
Oh baby
They're not really there for you
Oh baby
My fangs are dripping red on you
Oh baby
No crucifix or stake on you
Oh baby
The prophets only lied to you
My fangs are dripping red on you
Oh baby
They're not really there for you
Oh baby
My fangs are dripping red on you
Oh baby
No crucifix or stake on you
Oh baby
You think you know it all, don't you?
Oh baby
They're not really there for you
Oh baby
My fangs are dripping red on you
Oh baby
No crucifix or stake on you
Oh baby
The prophets only lied to you
|
||||
9. |
Strobe Light Halls
04:33
|
|||
I don't need you
To share my fears
I fly alone
Like birds of prey
I can't Shed tears
But I'll Shed my skin
Like the serpent
And Shed this love
I found my reflection
In strobe light halls
My shameless complexion
Is dripping down the walls
And all the rulers I detest
I deflect their javelins
I re-route their storms
My laugh must be thunder
My dance like a hurricane
To the pawns and their lords
I'm like a shadow in their minds
I'm not reflected in the mirrors they define
I'm like a shadow in their minds
I'm not reflected in the mirrors they define
I'm like a shadow in their minds
I'm not reflected in the mirrors they define
I'm like a shadow in their minds
I'm not reflected in the mirrors they define
I'm like a shadow in their minds
I'm not reflected in the mirrors they define
I'm like a shadow in your mind
|
||||
10. |
World’s 1st Rock Café
04:52
|
|||
Through white brick houses, avenues
In a blacked-out anorak and shoes
You roam in search of new delights
And leave some tags with spray paint
On the walls, you bring some life into the city
Because your government is terrible
Oh, what a drag to go out for a smoke
Harnessed by the capitalist yoke
They took my cell phone on the street
I only wanted to call her today
Their mafia methods at the rock-cafe
Man, they taser you for smoking a j
I'll never give in
Let them try with all their might
My fleeting moments scatter by the wayside, crawling home
Where I'll kiss her again
And taste a sour regret
I'll take my chances on the street, she's not the one, I've got to leave
We'll never give in
Let them try with all their might
Those oligarchs gentrified and vain
Will fall from grace
And a new age will dawn
And a new love will bloom
And her tears will dry
And we'll fade to nostalgic pictures
In each other's heads
|
Streaming and Download help
If you like Perestroika, you may also like:
Bandcamp Daily your guide to the world of Bandcamp