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Coherence
03:33
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Turing test
Talk to myself
I misunderstood
I could swear there’s someone there
Answering questions
Like I probably would
Even when
I ran so wild
Outside the machine
I could feel there’s someone there
Hands on the joystick
Pulling on the strings
Round and round but you’re never really got outside
Round and round just be happy that you got to try
You’re always running and you got so far this time
Get back to breaking
I am still
What got me here
I am sure of this
I can tell there’s someone there
Maybe coherence
Is just a software trick
On and on and on
Cycling inside cycles
Searching for the end
Here again
You’re here again
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2. |
It's Not Just Me
03:56
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Don’t look any farther out than what you haven’t seen
Focused on the objects not the spaces in between
I can see my shadow it’s a million miles across
Diluted and entangled in a million quantum dots
Tell me everything is sideways
Tell me that you don’t see what people say they see
And it’s not just me
Help me I’ve lost touch with the anatomy I’m in
Wearing information like an exoskeleton
I’m done burning
In this digital debris
It’s all plastic and fake sweet
And it’s not just me
If this is everything I have seen enough
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3. |
Battery in a Bonfire
05:41
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Tired drooping eyes
Blinking through the probing wires
I’m a battery
Bleeding off and feeding power to the sky
Nobody left to say goodbye
I won’t say nothing
I won’t cry
I’m a bonfire
I’m a battery
I am shrapnel in your eyes
Break down your reasons, tell me what you’re fighting for
Ten thousand pieces scattered all across the floor
Can’t call me worthless, I’ve been called much worse before
Break down your reasons, tell me what you’re fighting for
Frail ailing bones
Nothing left to carry on
Silent shattering
Now I’m choking on the cables down my throat
Bitter metallic and cold
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4. |
Unravelled
04:57
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Stomach tied in a knot
Swallow animal thoughts
Inarticulate feelings
Shaking out of my skin
Choking cold cryogen
Invisible ceiling
Biochemical leads
Machines learning to feed
Computational leeches
Come unraveled
Come apart
Come unraveled
Join us in the dark
Can’t get my fingers to work
Biomechanical Turk
Unreliable reaches
Another shot in the dark
Imperceptible sparks
Anatomical panic
I’m screaming out of my lungs
My mouth is dusty and dumb
Muddy and manic
Stomach tied in a knot
Swallow animal thoughts
Inarticulate feelings
Dark deep memories of burning
Darkly burning through my mind
The actuators stir
The motors hum and whir
Synthetic and bionic, artificial and atomic
Unraveled
Electronic
I’m alive
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5. |
Me and Whose Army
06:02
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All of the beautiful colors
Spinning around in my head
Damaged and daydreaming daily
Damaged and deaddreaming days
Damaged and dreaming
Me and whose army is holding me back
Me and whose army who’s holding me back
All of the strangling tangles
Wrapping around all the trees
All of the slithering cables
Looking for something to squeeze
Looking for something
Pulling apart all the tangles
Ripping apart at the seams
Sucking the air for it’s power
Choking the roots for their dreams
Pulling the power
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Plastic and Dopamine
03:52
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Down
Falling down long enough
It’s starting to feel
Just like I’m holding still
Down
Broken and falling down
Eyelids are closed
The metal gleam glistering
Down
Broken and falling down
Eyelids are closed
As if you were listening
Down
Not towards the center now
Under the mud
The metal gleam glistering
Plastic and dopamine
Blood guts and gasoline
Half me half machine
Pick apart the pieces if there’s something left to save
You’re dancing on my grave
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Asleep with the neon jet noises
I wake with these words on my lips
I am wild
I sing and I weep to the camera
I carve it with ink in my skin
I am wild
A crack in the plaster is spreading
I think that I’ll leave it alone
Remember please don’t forget
I am
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Megacycles Portland, Oregon
Megacycles is the bedroom recording project of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jonathan Newsome, based in Portland, OR.
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