1. |
Not Missed
03:17
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Who cries, plaintively?
And who wails on, endlessly?
No substance
Or consequence
Just a weak shard of light
In the endless darkness
CH: Didn't show at work for days
But he was not missed
Didn't make it home for weeks
But he was never missed
Didn't pay the bills on time
But he was not missed
Didn't answer any calls
But he was never missed
Are they his legs
Flailing?
Or giant hands
From a small man
CH
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2. |
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And now here
His hands moving
Along with his mind
A waste of time
His gaze unfocussed
To the corners he goes now
And dreams of leaving
Of an end to the end of
CH: Love and death
His weakness now
The promised words not spoken
Oh where does he go now?
No-one knows
And no-one cares
Just as long as he's leaving
Never to return
And then
What then?
The eyes fading
To shades of illusion
And shallowness within him
His gaze unfocussed
To the corners he goes now
And dreams of leaving
Of an end to the end of
CH
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3. |
Protect The Edge
03:32
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Unbelievably
He and she
Across the seas
And oceans deep
Despite the waves
Despite their age
The ups, the downs
They never, ever drowned
PRE CH: 'Do you like to watch the world burn?' she said
'Do you want to dive down to the depths of our despair?'
And he said:
CH: 'I will follow you for the rest of time
Until it burns down to the ground
I will be by your side to the end of time
Until there's no more of us to be found'
Let us ignore
Reality
And go forth
Blindly loving
Hoping for
A meteor
Or some such thing
So the end begins
PRE CH
CH
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4. |
Times Uninspired
03:10
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5. |
About The Waste
03:41
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Chatter smoke
A lasting joke
Get off the chair
Enough with the stares
In the half-light
No, no
You sad clown
Just about drowned
In the wasteland
CH: C'mon now
You know you're done
C'mon now
Ever since it begun
In the half baked light
He turned inside out
Emptied his tiny mind
Of thoughts of the waste
Oh yeah
All thru the day
And into the night
Get off that chair
New, but really old
Everything cold
Like a frozen choir
In a death camp
You never know
Thrust in the face
Pleasantries
And simple grace
CH: C'mon now
You know you're done
C'mon now
Ever since it begun
In the half baked light
He turned all night
Emptied his tiny mind
Of thoughts of the waste
Of his life
And of his mind
Of his time
And of his crimes
In the wasteland
Oh in the wasteland
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6. |
(Not) Leading Up To This
03:18
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The words they do not come
No loss to anyone
But she was the sun
She was the only one
Where we were and what was said
Who we were and where we went
The days of our youth
Emptied out, misused
CH: Go on about your life as if in a dream
Go on even though it seems
There is nothing left to say, see or do
Just marking time now baby
Marking time as we see it through
I want another dream
Give me anything new
What was leading up to this
Just memories that persist
And the kiss of borrowed lies
Fluid, yet stuck in time
All that's left of our dreams
Falls apart at the seams
CH
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To round the plains of death's disdain
Like a shot from a gun
And hold in your hand the emptiness
Of the last setting sun
As water falls through our hands
In a scene contrived
And our despair of life at least sees us
Still alive
CH: Whereupon the last of the day just fades away
Smothered by the unbearable dullness on display
You and her and her and him slow dance in the wind
Pretending this could be anything other than something grim
So it seems the tangled three will no longer be
And they drive off all alone accordingly
Directionless except for her as she drives into the sun
Eyes closed and hearts heavy, how can they go on?
CH
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He Dark Age Brisbane, Australia
He Dark Age is a collaboration between Paul Newsome (Pork, The Sump etc) and Tony Milner (Swell Guys, No-V-Bleet etc). We were mostly active from around 1986 to 1990 or so in Brisbane, but have started working together again with new releases from 2013. ... more
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