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Prologue / atoms enter
02:51
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Each atom in you,
Was once part of something else.
And each of those, 7 billion, billion, billion atoms, Will go on, to lead other lives,
In other beings and objects, long after you're Gone.
The beauty of a living thing, is not the atoms That go into it,
But the way those atoms
Are put together.
The youth in bloom,
The ocean jostled and swelled.
The sun's children.
Everything, somehow, fits together.
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72.8% Water
05:09
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How do you do you?
Ponder plenty, full.
You do how you do.
Happenstance and sky.
How you came to be.
We crawled from the sea...
And you happened to collide,
Liquid longing to learn.
And this tiny, brief existence
Is old fragments of light,
Of happenstance and sky.
And this whole place, is pulsating,
Is pulsating with life.
Is pulsating with life.
LIFE
How do you do you
Ponder the plentiful?
Fed by sunlight we tend to the soil
Perspirating the moisture
The residue
Navigate, navigate, Oh.
Born of sky joining
Joining
Born of star endless.
You do how you do
Ripple the happenstance,
Moon so helpful she jostles, she stirs,
Thank you for you for leaving the
Residue
Navigate, navigate, Oh.
Born of sea liquid, liquid
Born of stone restless, restless,
Born of sky joining, joining,
Born of star endless
You are,
Liquid.
A description of nature:
From stars, to cells, to sentience to sentiments, To sentences, the sun overhead, how curious!
It's highly likely that no human eye will ever see The sun die, how fortunate!
A description of nature, not an explanation, There will probably never be
A question of finishing.
In one sense, humans are nearly, nothing,
Containing something like 1 cubic millimetre of real matter - the rest is empty space - nearly Nothing.
Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make Each of us up
The iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth,
They were born in suns, overhead, how curious!
Except for hydrogen, all the atoms that make Each of us up
The nitrogen in our DNA, the carbon in our apple Pies, they were born in suns, overhead, how Curious!
A description of nature: Vessels and veins, Bundles of cells, stumbling, how fortunate!
The oceans, jostled and swelled,
The youth in bloom,
How fortunate!
The whatness, the quiddity,
The whole room is pulsating with life,
How fortunate!
We need the tides to exist,
Without the moon we wouldn't be here
The person you love is 72.8 percent water.
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And this tiny, brief existence
Is old fragments of light.
Of happenstance and sky.
The sun, overhead.
How curious.
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Liquid
01:39
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Send me hope we are akin
Distant parts of one machine
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In one sense
Humans are nearly nothing
Containing something like one cubic millimetre of real matter
The rest is empty space
Nearly nothing.
Born of sea,
Liquid.
Born of stone,
Restless
Born of sky,
Endless.
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6. |
Home
03:26
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Motion a mending, muscle amass,
Mighty the moment can be
We remain rooted out feet in the soil,
We want to be home, to be free.
Minding the spaces, minding the gap,
Hand in hand we go,
Silent to swallow a journey to nowhere,
Marching along in tow.
Standing alone with my feet on the throne,
This is not what I thought it would be,
Running and running our feet in the air,
Is this the way home, the way home, the way home, the way home.
Look high, and fall, to the arms of the land,
And slide
Through the cracks in the earth.
Soon, soon
Soon the day will...
Soon, soon
Soon white daisies will grow.
Is this the way home, the way home?
(Hand in hand we go)
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There's as many atoms, in a single molecule of your DNA, as there are stars
in a typical galaxy.
And we promised to be lost.
To be upright,
And vital.
Regenerate.
Look high, and fall, to the arms of the land,
And slide
Through the cracks in the earth.
Soon, soon
Soon the day will...
Soon, soon
Soon white daisies will grow.
Born of sky joining, joining
Born of star, endless.
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8. |
Nearly Human
05:22
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Lose an endless
Longing counting
Merely being
Human nearly being
Left behind, dust left behind
Many footsteps
Make one journey
Trundling wondering
The whimsy and the story
Brave and lost, stay brave and lost
All those places
We have been to
We have pondered
Land and sea and statues
Left behind, skin, left behind
Lose an endless
Longing counting
Merely being
Human nearly being
Left behind, dust left behind
Nearly Being, merely being
Human
Lost an endless joining being
So we cut our teeth,
Brave and lost, stay, brave and lost
Liquid long
Endless fleeting
Only butterflies
Left behind
Dust
Left Behind
Nearly
nothing
Nearly human
Vessels and veins
Nearly Human
Indifference
Nearly Human
Sinew and streams,
And bundles of cells, stumbling
Nearly human
And stretch, and breath, and love.
(Just love)
It's highly likely no human eye
Will ever see the Sun die.
Belong.
The chances of your existence
Is miniscule my friend.
Miniscule
Water, rise and remain.
Lose an endless
Longing counting
Merely being
Human nearly being.
Vessels and veins
Bundles of cells,
Stumbling.
How fortunate.
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It's highly likely,
That no human eye,
Will ever see the sun die.
How fortunate.
From stars, to cells, to sentences, to symbiosis. The sun overhead (overhead)
How curious.
We are, each of us, a little universe.
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10. |
My Word
03:52
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Sometimes the bird, it just doesn’t crow
Sometimes it sings, it sings, it sings
Sometimes the bell, it just doesn’t toll
Sometimes it rings, it rings, it rings
The bird, it flew as it was frightened by the ringing of the bell.
A startled starling joins the sky.
The strike of every single hour, rings around the tower
Bringing starts and ends to all of those nearby.
You know you’ve got the best of me
But please don’t take the rest of me
And oh, my word you are so beautiful
Sometimes the phone it just doesn’t ring,
Sometimes you call, and call, and call.
Sometimes your star, it just doesn’t rise
Sometimes it falls and falls and falls
The man, he ran as he was frightened by the ringing of the bell.
The startled starling joins this guy.
The strike of every single hour, rings around the tower
Bringing starts and ends to all of those nearby.
You know you’ve got the best of me
But please don’t take the rest of me
And oh, my word you are so beautiful
You know you’ve got the best of me
But please don’t take the rest of me
And oh, my word you are so beautiful
And oh, my word you are so beautiful
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Except for Hydrogen,
All the atoms that make each of us up
The iron in our blood,
The calcium in our teeth,
The nitrogen in our DNA,
The carbon in our apple pies,
Were manufactured
In the interiors of collapsing stars,
Thousands of light years away in space
And billions of years ago in time.
We are starstuff.
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12. |
Squashing Pennies
03:42
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I promise to pay the bearer
The sum of,
Self.
A ritual, your currency
I'll pay you,
Fair.
And I promised to be lost
Be upright and be vital
The thrum and hum on the tracks
The metal and the pressure
Squashing, pennies
And
loss
Only, only, ever
After, after we're, gone
Pennies, memories some change
Sleep deep, sleep deep
And rest
Returns the other sun set
And I want to tell you that I love you
And these words these words they don't say Enough
And I want to tell you that I see you
May our stride be strong and always,
Upright and vital
And you showed me strength and play and
Acres of wisdom
All we were doing was
Squashing the pennies…
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If you removed
All of the space in our atoms,
Humans are
Nearly nothing.
The entire human race,
Would fit into the volume of a sugar cube.
The rest is empty space.
(Nearly nothing)
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Bloodhound
03:51
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Though I’m alive
There’s wreaths of dust
And a desert around
But what’s that sound?
As heaven is my witness
I am broken,
I’m stuck awoken
Face turned down
Like the Bloodhound
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Humans have evolved to wonder,
Understanding is a joy,
Knowledge is prerequisite
To survival.
Extinction is the rule,
Survival is the exception
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16. |
Hear it Coming
04:57
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We fought through water
To the land
We used to be
Sea
We came from seeing
Only water
We’ll find ourselves together
Born of stone
From stone to star
-ing on our own
We used to be
Sky
We’re now just lighting our own way
To find ourselves together
Born of stars
Hear it Coming
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17. |
((mutualism / you are))
02:41
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Writing, cities, art, science and love.
These are some of the things
That hydrogen atoms do
Given fifteen billion years
Of cosmic evolution.
You are
You
You are
Liquid
Endless
You are
You are
You are
You are
We are the embodiment
Of a cosmos
Grown to self awareness
Starstuff
Pondering the stars
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18. |
Joining the Skies
04:08
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Shall I lie, or shall I leave?
As I’m so squashed, I
can’t breathe.
Am I dumb or am I damned?
To me it’s large, but
stars they frown,
look down at me,
A grain of
sand,
….
Whilst they are grand.
Send me hope we are akin;
distant parts of one machine.
Sunlight flashes on my eyelid.
Sunlight feeding me with D.
Sunlight dances on my dermis.
Sunlight joining the skies to me.
Joining the skies to me
Do I do enough to die?
Live enough to
say goodbye?
Far along as I appear
I’ve not done much and
I do fear
my rent’s not paid
Stars don’t fade.
….
Come to my aide.
Send me hope we are akin;
distant parts of one machine.
Starstuff making up my atoms
Starstuff hardening my teeth
Starstuff flowing round my arteries
Starstuff joining the stars to me
Joining the stars to me
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19. |
((epiphany / decay))
02:07
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Starstuff, making up my atoms
Starstuff, hardening my teeth
Starstuff, flowing round my arteries
Starstuff, joining the stars to me
Your last death,
Is that moment,
Sometime in the future,
When your name is spoken
For the very
Last
Time
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20. |
Hurt the Fly
03:29
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Hurt the fly. Spray it with your pain.
Hurt the fly. Shorten its 30 days.
Fly.
When does a life count?
When does pain?
No emotion.
Just nociception.
No emotion.
Just nociception.
FLY
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21. |
Epilogue / atoms onward
01:35
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We are like butterflies
Who flutter for a day
And think it is
Forever.
Exploration is in our nature.
We began as wanderers,
And we are wanderers still.
We are ready,
At last,
To set sail
For the stars.
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