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Beyond the Zero
04:14
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Screamings from across the sky
Missiles falling to the ground
The Nazi fury claiming lives
Before we even hear the sound
Jessica, why can't we just leave it all behind?
Ignore this all and set ourselves aside
London's only a memory
Of the place it used to be
Pull the bodies out of here
So that they can all be free
Jessica, we're in love but war can't be ignored
We're side effects of 1944
London's only a memory
Of the place it used to be
Pull the bodies out of here
(Help me take this dying fox inside)
So that they can all be free
(‘cause I can’t make it all alone inside)
But considering the Poisson distribution
Things don’t happen for a reason or a cause
In the end, the laws that govern this confusion
Are the same that make our lives so full of flaws
Let’s repeat eternity
One more time, now everybody–
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Meager Dried-up Fields
03:45
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A land deprived of decency
identity and swag
sucks all life force out of people
and dresses them in a rag
Instead of joining forces to
rectify the distortion
we rob our peers, so we can be
united in misfortune
Solace found in veiled racism
hostility and wrath
crafted blindness to our needs and
paved a new warpath
Self-celebrating news to tame us
Spread like a carcinoma
As they praise the artistic offer
Culture’s in a coma
I’m fed up of people saying
It will get better one day
Take me back to my discomfort
I was better off that way
There is nothing left for me here
It was all taken away
Take me back to when I felt lost
I was better off that way
Waiting for things to change might be a reverie
Waiting for things to change might be a reverie
Waiting for things to change might be a reverie
Waiting for things to change might be a reverie
All the bad choices in my life are
Coming back at me
Reckoning with closed mindedness might
Be my destiny
When I came back, I left a world of
Opportunities
The lands of Ticino offered
Meager dried-up fields
Meager dried-up fields
Meager dried-up fields
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Seven years have come and gone
The world has changed, and people have forgotten
The wisdom granted by the gods
the strength and courage families had gotten
Today we stand by
The darkness of the sky
They have sealed the entrance of the bottom of the well
The world is very different but it's always the same as well
You gave me all the happiness of a lifetime in advance
I should have stayed with you back then when I still had the chance
The market square is empty now
The liveliness that this bazaar was known for
Has withered like a dandelion
Or like some big tree of the ancient folklore
As hope slowly dies
A new day starts to rise
The royal flower buds growing up in disarray
Or those repeated three notes that we always used to play
And then you made me promise to remember-
Flowing from the mountain
From the frozen cave
The river brings the poison
All the way to the lake
Bringer of disease and plague
Staying locked in my room
Has never felt so safe
Forced to live on lands
That don’t want us anymore
And steadily make us feel unwelcome
Là süi nüvol trón e stralüsc
Svöida al ciel dal sò blö
Resta domà un gris tristisim
Tütt chel che ga piaseva
L’ha smetü da vèss entüsiasmant
My estranged childhood friends
Haven’t aged a single bit
Time has shown his hatred towards
Us, when every morning
Promises the very same day
Gently laid by the lake
Every person has become a stranger
Moving on holding breath
Witnessing time that runs impatient
Has the sun forsaken us?
Allowed this theater of misery?
Will there ever come a time
Of rediscovered prosperity?
Down, down we go, underworld, no return
Down, no more hope, there’s no light there below
Cursed, death upon powerless human beings
I remember the past
More than I plan the future
Almighty sun
Why have you forsaken us?
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An Alpine Coming of Age
02:01
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Found no place in the world
Getting wasted in a parking lot
Best birthday party ever
The population density
Doesn’t foster sanity
Therefore in my life I am drowning
I wasn’t taught how to swim
It’s hard to invite your friends to a Mexican
Restaurant, when there are no Mexican
Restaurants in town, or in the towns nearby
Slowly rotting on the concrete till the day that I–
Die
Getting drunk, falling down, vomiting in the snow
There’s no fun to be had in Riazzino for sure
Can Feldschlösschen ease the pain
Of my meaningless decay?
I’m fading away.
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I’ve reached that phase of life in which things stopped happening
So let me share my wisdom and give you some advice
Drink a lot of water unless you have to pay
Don’t say no to the power of God and anime
You never know what you’re gonna need in jail
Friends may come, friends may go
The same applies to girls
But the love for jazz is forever
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Take me where I can unbury what is left of my spirit
Someplace where my quintessence can scream out and you can hear it
Because it's been a while since I last looked at the world
Through the dreamy eyes of a seventeen-year-old
If I didn't tell you that my smile was only for show
Would you ever know? Would you ever know? Would you–
An unfamiliar twist to a familiar shade of behavior
Can replenish your existence with a new kind of flavor
And as we celebrate the simple fact that we’re still alive
The motherland will give us burgers in an endless supply
Chicken nuggets and ice tea will fill the void in my life
Mouth open wide, mouth open wide, mouth–
I don’t know how many times I tried
To drown my dread in French fries and sodium chloride
But so far it never felt alright
It just tasted wrong, it just tasted wrong, it just–
Vkusno i tochka, straight from the dreams
Vkusno I tochka, fly onwards!
A new perspective straight from the dreams
Help me prosper, fly onwards!
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Mersenne Twister
05:32
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Doors never open, they mostly close
The future collapses into what we chose
The potential for this converted to heat
The world doesn’t care if it feels incomplete
Our aging bodies know what it means
To take the wrong exit where there’s no in-betweens
Water never flows upstream
So random are the turns of this game
As if our audience wants to be entertained
Just as I do when I look at worms
They ask for meaning, I move all their stones
And I will not hurt them, I want them to fight
I want them to struggle and look for the light
Thinking of the roads not taken
Currents destined not to interfere
A pair of electrons with opposite spins
Bred from chaos and nothingness
To testify emptiness
Jump out of my past and come to me
Tell me it’s not too late
To make the water flow upstream
(Now everybody–)
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Ménage à un Bellinzona, Switzerland
Bunch o'dudes, formerly college bros, separated by distance but united by shitty ideas.
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