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Man Made Earthquake

by Seneka

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1.
This is the place where we live by the rules Only to die by the sword This is the world that has drawn a line And told us its cutting the chord To the heart of this city has come an earthquake It's ripping and tearing streets in two And this ground we can mend but never un-break The damage, inside us, it grew So have we ever been so far away And what will be the price that we all pay Oh god we'll pay With the damage done How long will it take To rebuild this city From the man made earthquake? Last night we watched our city collapse We built it on unstable ground For fifty years we'll be tasting the dust In the rubble remorse won't be found There's familiar destruction under cold, dark skies There's brothers at war on the streets My thoughts are fighting like wounded animals And my hoping heart it depletes Are we further away than we have ever been? Cos I can't face this turmoil that's rushing in my blood stream With the damage done How long will it take To rebuild this city From the man made earthquake? So now that love has been persecuted And war is glorified Can I win a losing battle In a world where that's justified With the damage done How long will it take To rebuild this city From the man made earthquake?
2.
Golden arches in stained glass windows The colonel nailed to the cross And reading tabloid from the alter Is Donald Trump in Hugo Boss And so was built this corporate land In the name of our sealed fate With echoes of Korea Glory in voiceless hate Your fortress of power is all smoke and mirrors Your unstoppable empire, it shakes and it shivers So one day we'll conquer KokaKolaKastle And take back what’s ours And on the moon is Reagan's portrait Lighting up our skies like a Batman sign And down below the hungry and homeless Keeping warm from the candles of a Thatcher shrine The devils and the demigods Dwarf the saints and crush the slaves They die to mausoleums While we live in shallow graves Your fortress of power is all smoke and mirrors Your unstoppable empire, it shakes and it shivers So one day we'll conquer KokaKolaKastle And take back what’s ours I've never read 1984 but I don't need to There's no fucking need to A timeless tale or blueprint for all mankind That’s been through, it's what we're living through Free Press is the pride of every patriot A master class in Chinese censorship Blank, omitted, blank, shhhh..... Tough to un-see what you've witness For convenient superficial bliss Your fortress of power is all smoke and mirrors Your unstoppable empire, it shakes and it shivers So one day we'll conquer KokaKolaKastle And take back what’s ours
3.
I lift my hand off the window And it leaves a little map As her tranquil eyes are roused from sleep Her little words set domino feelings When the sunlight breaks on her starlight skin The suspense and the pressure makes her grip tighten Our lonely walk through this open door And i take her hand on the borderline These city walls are our shrine To our well spent youth and our stolen time On her skin i'd sketch a scene To remember where i have been Stand before with a nervous stare As i lift my hands off her laid bare A lonely reflection on the bridge tonight Of a tired tribe who set the world alight So put your camera down And lower your gaze These stones were built For our better days Like roses picked from crimson skies Our graceless love, our sordid lies I'm broken with the compromise When staring forward with vacant eyes There's nothing left just words in stone Move towards your home We used to cry so well together The next day it felt like my eyes had broken The horizon will fall away into a million mismatched pieces
4.
Far 04:50
My heart grows old And needs to rest But i'm sure you'll do your very best To take good care Of these memories But one of these days i know that you'd say Darling, run away, gotta go You can't see this thing out Darling, you can't stay, it's not safe I will hide you somewhere Darling, run away, gotta go You can't see this thing out I'll take you far away and i'll come too Couldn't do a thing without you I can't see her But i can't leave her alone We are the letters that are washed up from the sea And as i'm lying here in this surrender You have never been so far from me I see the life Behind your eyes But my lips are closed and you don't realise That into this day And far beyond This burning sky will be our last dawn We are the echoes of your memory When i'm summoned by the scarlet storm You have never been so far from me Deep in the deadlight, i find a note to say I can't sleep on my own Since you've been away Did you even love me Did you even know me
5.
I've lived my life in the old factory It's all I know, all that I can ever be But now they've built machines to do my job If I lose it tonight, it'll be the final straw It's gonna be a cold winter this year Now that they've shut down the station down at the peer Now there's 10,000 other guys just like me At the Grangemouth gates praying for the same vacancy There's no hope in hard times for us We get by darlin' but only just And there's no riches at the end of these rags So if you're looking for me tonight You'll find me at Salisbury crags Every night I step into that ring I fight for my life and I fight for everything But I get beat to the ground and I'll left for dead It's hard to hold on when you're holding on by a thread But I've got a ticket for the lottery that better win Cos I've had more going out than I've had coming in Now there's so many other guys just like me At the Grangemouth gates fighting for the same vacancy There's no hope in hard times for us We get by darlin' but only just And there's no riches at the end of these rags So if you're looking for me tonight You'll find me at Salisbury crags Well maybe one day we'll find a time When we won't have to try so hard And we can follow the sunset from city to city And forget how deep this thing scarred
6.
Torchlight 04:12
I was born with desire to win and hunger for victory But I couldn't play the game Tried to write a song that would take me of so far away The melody; it never came Now I'm lost in all this darkness But through the trees of the forest I see a torchlight Every night I creep out to walk these dirty streets Confiding in the loneliness Cos I can't settle at night from all this doubt Knowing all these dreams, in time, might not work out Now I'm lying cold and helpless By the river side But I see a torchlight From a series of still images I learned to dance Now the torture never ends And with these broken legs I have no chance It grinds and it torments I just don't have what it takes to get what I have always wanted
7.
Panda Tank 03:28
I've got to align my strength Gather my destiny Under the panda attack Under my frequency The testimony is shot The testimony is made An armed notion is stopped With a black and a white grenade The walls are closing in The waves are crashing down Are you even listening? They blink in comfortable time They stumble forward by chance Slowly, moving they go Artillery romance They gonna put you down Sooner you realize They gonna put you to sleep With their sweet lullabies
8.
Roam Free 04:29
Sail yourself beyond your swimming pool Float your vessel like you learned in school Get it once, get it twice, get your three bags full Take an aimless walk from A to who knows where Fly away from things you can't repair Step out once, step out twice, step outside your conscious nightmare Roam free wherever you are I'll set the tone if you raise the bar
9.
I think it's time we asked the probing questions And I can't help but feel that this seems wrong And I'm tired of leaving this door open It feels like years since it's been gone I suffer only for someone else to fall I cannot take anymore It's just a tunnel with no light Just a tunnel And since I'll suffer in silence We're going to fall The walls are caving in The air escaping out The flood is yet to come Our future is in doubt
10.
Blindfolded by periphery We're walking through this life on an automatic shutterspeed Booster shots to feed the thirst I think i'm feeling better, I think i'm feeling worse Once upon a time, in the middle of the night Two little holograms got up to fight A shrouded figure, standing by the door Is watching as the roaring crowd has finally reached the shore Run boy and fetch my cannons Remember the stories, forget all the glories Run girl and fetch my canons Let this memory sustain them all I am a little defensive in the flame A wave of war has reached the shore I love every single contour of your face I hear whispers in the heart of the star I swear i saw you standing beneath the arch I was transformed, you were right With a kiss to launch a starbound flight Once upon a time, in the middle of the night Two little holograms got up to fight Blinfolded by periphery We're walking through this life on an automatic shutterspeed Red rags to matadors, i'll take this fight And i'll do anything to make it right If you're lost, on your starbound flight I'll be your light
11.
Unrising Sun 07:19
I've got a trembling hand and blood shot eyeballs I can feel my heart pounding off the walls I haven't slept, I would not know how This raging fear is my only energy now Got that loose cannon brain activity When patience feels like captivity I'm failing now, where has our baby gone? Give me the news, is she our unrising sun? When the morning comes will we say goodbye To the anxious wait and hopeless glance to the sky To the unrising sun, the cold on your skin, And whispered questions of who delivered this sin I've got a trembling hand and blood shot eyeballs I can feel my heart pounding off the walls This wallowing sensation in my chest This darkest hour bringing my strength to the test I'd love to mourn for what I'd lost For what I've never had is an unbearable cost When the morning comes will we say goodbye To the anxious wait and hopeless glance to the sky To the unrising sun, the cold on your skin, And whispered questions of who delivered this sin Haven't slept for days I would not know how, I'm wide awake but This rampant fear is my Only energy now, I can't even shake but My broken lungs have stopped inhaling I gasp and choke but all is failing In these four walls I'll wait For the unrising sun When the morning comes will we say goodbye To the anxious wait and hopeless glance to the sky To the unrising sun, the cold on your skin, And whispered questions of who delivered this sin

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England.
Ireland.
Scotland........................ Wails

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released February 10, 2014

Produced by Seneka and Graeme Young and Seneka @ Chamber Studios, Edinburgh
Mixed by Graeme Young
Mastered by Stephen Foster

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