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Butterfly Paradox
02:54
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I heard the music so loud
I dreamed but never slept
I’ve got a secret so proud
I screamed but never wept
Did the music hear me?
Did the music hear me?
Am I stuck in a dream?
I don’t know what’s real
Am I just a girl
Dreaming I’m a butterfly?
Or do I have really have wings and
I’ve been dreaming this whole human life?
Am I just a girl
Dreaming I’m a butterfly?
Or do I have really have wings and
I’ve been dreaming this whole human life?
‘Round the old clock it ticks
I wait for truth, unveiled
I feel a little bit sick from
Eating my own tail
Did the music hear me?
Did the music hear me?
Am I stuck in a dream?
I don’t know what’s real
Am I just a girl
Dreaming I’m a butterfly?
Or do I have really have wings and
I’ve been dreaming this whole human life?
Am I just a girl
Dreaming I’m a butterfly?
Or do I have really have wings and
I’ve been dreaming this whole human life?
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Flow
03:39
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A torrent of data, faces & code
Voices and lives that are not my own
Cursory stream of curious things
Babble like a river below
A torrent of tales, triumph & woe
Secret and sins that not my own
Cursory dream of curious things
Flicker with a turbulent glow
And I flow
And I flow
Flow
An accidental direct download
Memory banks that are not my own
Cursory stream of curious things
Where do they come from where do they go?
A river of data, faces & code
Somebody else manifesto
Cursory dream of curious things
Add them to my portfolio
And I flow
And I flow
Flow
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Love, you fall on the floor
With the sorrow of every heart
All you need is a little break from all this
Noise of living with yourself
These eyes, this mind
A life designed
It gets so tiring seeing so much of it
All, enthralled
By every call
I wonder the hallways, full of the dark of it
Love, you fall on the floor
With the sorrow of every heart
All you need is a little break from all this
Noise of living with yourself
These eyes, this mind
A life designed
It gets so tiring seeing so much of it
All, enthralled
By every call
I wonder the hallways, full of the dark of it
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Melting
03:21
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Waking next to you
The crack in the curtain lights the room and I am
Melting into love
Yes, melting into love
Waking next to you
The flower of tenderness is in full bloom and I am
Melting into love
Yes, melting into love
Do you remember the irises out of the windowpane
Do you remember I said I’d never be blue again?
Guess that I said it to entertain you
But since I fell into this
I haven’t been quite the same
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ROSIE PROBERT
From Duck Lane, Jack Quack twice and ask for
Rosie
SECOND VOICE
is the one love of his sea-life that was sardined
with women
ROSIE PROBERT ( Softlj )
What seas did you see,
Tom Cat, Tom Cat,
your sailoring days
Long long ago?
What sea beasts were
In the wavery green
When you were my master?
CAPTAIN CAT
I’ll tell you the truth
Seas barking like seals,
Blue seas and green,
Seas covered with eels
And mermen and whales
ROSIE PROBERT
What seas did you sail
Old whaler when
On the blubbery waves
Between Fnsco and Wales
You were my bosun?
CAPTAIN CAT
As true as I’m here
Dear you Tom Cat’s tart
You landlubber Rosie
You cosy love
My easy as easy
My true sweetheart,
Seas green as a bean
Seas gliding with swans
In the seal-barking moon
ROSIE PROBERT
What seas were rocking
My little deck hand
My favourite husband
In your seaboots and hunger
My duck my whaler
My honey my daddy
My pretty sugar sailor
With my name on your belly
When you were a boy
Long long ago ?
CAPTAIN CAT
Ml tell you no lies
The only sea I saw
Was the seesaw sea
With you riding on it
Lie down, lie easy
Let me shipwreck m your thighs.
ROSIE PROBERT
Knock twice, Jack,
At the door of my grave
And ask for Rosie.
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When Will You Learn?
04:28
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Is that Maya playing piano?
Am I back at Beau Soleil?
Why won’t the brass be quiet
And the cymbals wash away?
Discerning my reality
Is not my big forte
I better try go back to sleep
Before the voices have their way
When will you learn
The game that we play
Who do you serve
What do you say
When will you learn
The game that we play
Who do you serve
What do you say
Is that moonlight on ocean?
Am I right beside the sea?
Or have I died my final death
And heavens silvery?
There’s a man behind the mirror
And that man it isn’t me
I better get back into bed
Before the faces melt completely
When will you learn
The game that we play
Who do you serve
What do you say
When will you learn
The game that we play
Who do you serve
What do you say
It’s the slumber with the key
Unlocking every chest and mystery
Level up and get you free
To fly where your data streams
I’ve been swimming in the river of a dream
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He’s left
He’s left us all
But he left us with greenery
And things to enthrall us
We’ll never be whole because
We are nothing
We are all
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Oh, where do we go from here?
When every pool is full of tears
That rust the things that you hold dear
And corrupt the dreams with worldly fear?
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TZARA Cape Town, South Africa
(de)composer
Spinning eternally in limbo between genres, like a piece of toast buttered on both sides
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