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And when the launch came we never talked about the way that we felt
It was all safety checks and technical specs and things to hide behind
Two household names - who's the third one again. I can't get my head around
That everyone everyone everyone everyone watching these men by my side
They couldn't see me if they tried
Silence
Complete silence
No-one has ever been so far
Spinning around unto the far side
Where all of the features have Russian names
And I have to admit that once there I thought
"This is the peaceful use of outer space"
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Spritelife
02:31
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You've let me down before
When you failed to spot a collapsing floor
Why is it still in the air when someone else stood there
You let it fall
I've had my share of neglect too
You shut me down in a browser window
Oh you minimised it and I guess you forgot
That I'm still here
And I fell off screen so many times
That I have to question for which side
You play for and it's not my fault
I've tried really hard
So next time use the cheat codes
Or play the game on easy mode
You're not a player why do you still play
I've tried really hard
To START
Let's go for Alpha Centauri or world peace, surely
You let it burn
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She Built A Robot
03:59
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Robot One existed outside of CAD
Robot Nine was confiscated and oh there were fines
Robot Twelve finally solved the solar recharging problems that had plagued the project from the onset until Robot Fifteen learn the laws of robotics
She built a robot and gave it a heart
That sucked
The Zeroth Law set calculations all wonky
What am I to do with opportunity cost
Technology will solve food security
Cheers all round. Hurrah. We've solved the Nick Hawes Paradox
We needn't of had to with less fossil fuels and more forethought
But all these problems in 2050 were waiting for a technofix
She built a robot and gave it a heart
That sucked
The Zeroth Law set calculations all wonky
What am I to do with opportunity cost
"They built me why. They built me why. They went and wasted all that money. I can't make it back by doing something"
"I'm shutting down. I'm shutting down. I can't spend my life doing economics. All the values of the worth of being"
Robot Fourteen was the final deliverable and handed over to the project's sponsor
Glasses were raised and seminal papers published in important journals
But the robot worked out no way no way would it ever repay it's debt to humanity
But nobody listened and still the money flowed
She built a robot and gave it a heart
That sucked
The Zeroth Law set calculations all wonky
What am I to do with opportunity cost
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The moon hangs in the sky again
"catch it"
There may be a way and so I say
"yes, but we'll need a plan"
I'll hold you up everything stretched tilting skywards
No void left at our fingertips, maybe we can get it down.
The moon hangs in the sky again
"catch it"
There may be a way so again I say
"yes, but we'll need a plan"
Maybe we'll get your bath-time net, you can hold it
The moon won't escape from our grasp this time - the holes are really small
It's one of those days when a throwaway phrase means dreaming big accidentally
If the moon's out of range well it won't be always
Yes, but we'll need a plan
I'll never go to the moon a generation too soon but that won't always be true
And a wish on a star will only get you so far
Yes, so we'll need a plan
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Falling and Laughing Birmingham, UK
Falling and Laughing are a Birmingham-ish based two piece. Over the last 15 years their still recognisable jangly indiepop
heritage has increasingly leaned heavily on postrock ideas and alternative tunings.
Email on duncan_vernon@hotmail.com
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