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In Phase
03:28
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I look for ways to say hello
There’s more to you than I know
Appearances are not all
Writing’s not always on the wall
I’ve got to send out some protection
To begin some correction
Another way to connect
Meet where the waves intersect
Even when we’re face to face all the words can be misplaced
Language leaves a lot to say, so much more is there at play
You play a note it will be heard
Flies more swiftly than the bird
And if you give your full intention
You take it to its destination
The receiver may be jammed but it is sure the message lands
The blockage is only 3D, another part is moving free
Across the void I reach out in the hope my love is felt
The ice to melt
A constant beat from the heart sends the signal on repeat
On repeat
Union is in neutral space
Not tethered to material place
We can heal this deep malaise
With our frequencies in phase
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2. |
Could Be Dragons
05:10
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The fog is all around
Don’t know which way is up
The ground is uncertain
There are rocks could make you trip
The edge could be right there
One wrong step could mean a fall
The route is not clear
I hear screams from in the mist
Ch. Could be devils could be dragons could be after a slice
Out of me
Down in their darkness I can feel them they are planning to strike
Bare their teeth
It seems the land has changed
Doesn’t look like what I used to know
The map that I once carried
Corresponds not to what I see
A shadow has been cast
The signposts point another way
They lead to the abyss
If you follow that’s a long drop
Ch.
I see where you are
That screen doesn’t hide your tricks
My truth I will find
My choices will be mine
They’ll wrap you in their coils
To squeeze out every last breath
So you must be Saint George
And hold the sword up to the light
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3. |
Sunken Ship
04:08
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Deep in the water
I can see that sunken ship
No sail upon the mast
Splintered by the blast
The ropes have gone now and no longer take the strain
Memories faded of when she sailed the main
The wood was rotten
Like those on the upper deck
Their bones all now picked clean
No living flesh is seen
Their course was hijacked, to the storm they turned the sail
Was it set in stone that this voyage would always fail?
In a blaze she sunk down
And what of the cargo
Did the ship’s log go down too?
Is there anything we can know
Where did they want to go?
Is there nothing to salvage, any knowledge we can save?
Or should she just be left beneath the waves?
And where is the treasure
Was it even in the hold?
Did they find the shining gold
Did they think before they sold?
Should we leave this vessel on which former hope was pinned?
Unfurl our own sail and feel the wind
In a blaze she sunk down
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4. |
Barefaced Lies
04:13
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It’s clear now
An open book
What was hidden before
Laid out for all to look
Motives shown to be true
Interests will be followed
Much spoken nothing said
Again those words prove to be hollow
There is no trust when you’re stabbed in the back again
Another lie and there’s someone who feels the pain
Whose misplaced faith is slain
Allegiance is shown
Bought by the corporation
Disciples of the £pound
Only deliver damnation
So the land is torn
The wedge driven deep
Anger and hate are worn
And fear is reaped
There is no trust when you’re stabbed in the back once more
Another lie and there’s somebody on the floor
Now I just want to say
And let me be quite clear
That I think that it’s the right thing to do
What the people want to hear
So does my language persuade?
That my heart is real?
That I’m watching out for you?
Well I’m just sharpening the steel
We’re just collateral as pieces move on the board
Endless betrayal leaves our blood on the sword
There is no trust when you’re stabbed in the back once more
Another lie and there’s somebody on the floor
Or shown out of the door
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5. |
The Undead
05:50
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I see you
But I’m here in my head
I hear you
But you might as well be dead
My gaze falls to the light in my hand
I’m enthral to this spell on its frequency band
I’ve got my world playing into my ears
No need to interface no need to exchange ideas
I choose my soundtrack in isolation
I’m reinforced by the echo inside my room
Blue light is my white powder
Has me fixed and my eyes get wider
There has to be a little gold if I just scroll on down
Another meme that I can show I’ve seen and share around
Then my friends can all see that I’m on the pulse
It’s just a virtual me but I’m someone else
Ch. On the street I am walking dead, I’ve got my head down
Just one of the undead, we’ve got our heads down
We’ve all got our heads down
Thumb poised over the factory line
Ever ready to respond when it senses a sign
Picks an item from the digital conveyor belt
For brief inspection leaving evidence of how I felt
If I’ve a question I start inputting text
The oracle knows me so well she can tell what comes next
Every move she maps and makes a prediction
So she can show me that I don’t have to think for myself
I need a fix – bathe my face in the screenshine
Get my kicks as I race along my timeline
Every moment can be filled with this interference
Ideation sold up, wholesale clearance
Then I am detached from the knowing field
One more of the batch to succumb and yield
Ch.
And so with a stoop I lurch around
Stuck in a loop my thread unwound
Ch.
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6. |
Mindspace
04:19
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You think you know what you know
Think you’re in charge of your brain
But who’s the Messenger of information?
Can you call them out by name?
Can you pinpoint the Incentive?
That made you act out these Norms
What is the source of the directive?
That gives the cue to induce these forms
Ch. Sages are moulding your opinion
It’s Nudged and redesigned
A BIT of engineering of the language (B.I.T. manipulate the message)
They’re coming for the space of your mind
Your Defaults now have a new setting
A bias that’s become ingrained
When the sun goes down you turn around to the EAST
Because you dislike loss more than you like gain
The Salience of what you’re faced with
Your Priming will now decide
When your feelings are suitably Affected
You’re a victim of menticide
The framing is conjured up by magicians
The heart strings pulled then your Commitment is bought
Details buried under layers of doublespeak
Artfully Vague so no question is thought
You operate through automatic motivations
Installed to make the self feel good
The Ego lives off these machinations
Even though you’re led along in a hood
Ch 2. Make it easy make it attractive
Give it a social spin
Choose your moment make it timely
Then everybody is hooked in
Marshalled through every decision
Fooled to think that it is your choice
Compliance brings herd precision
You may bleat but you have no voice
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7. |
When We Get Through
05:21
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The bone shines clean and white
Skull stares hollow eyed
No feeling behind the gaze
No heart inside
Cold intention dwells
In that toothy grin
Blank words clatter off the jaw
No substance within
There are no secrets now
Small print is writ large
The iron fist comes down
Here comes the charge
Ch. We will join in company
Reach out and touch like the living beings we are
When we get through
When we get through this
The moves are sychronised
In the money flow
No exit strategy
Just one way to go
But there is unity
In our separation
We all want to be free
And feel love in reunion
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8. |
You Could Try Roulette
04:12
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You never show your hand
Holding out for a full house
The players come and go
The stakes only rise
How long have you been at the table
Is there not another game that you can play
You could try roulette
Roll the dice and maybe you’ll win the bet
What if you just fold?
Cut your losses and before the aces clean you out
Because you’re just drawing dead
And you’ll wear it in your tell
Even if you’re all in
Save your face and find another game to play
You could try roulette
Roll the dice and maybe you’ll win the bet
But every time you pay the take
You only lose it’s the house that makes the gain
Sidestep that pain
‘cause you can make up your own game to play
And maybe leave roulette
‘cause life is more than black and red
There’s no buy-in now
No need to be the one who is on the tilt
‘cause you’re the dealer and the house
The pot is yours
It’s your game to play
You could try roulette
But life is more than black and red
Take the dice and throw it away
And forget about roulette
Because you’ve got your own game to play
Your own game to play
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9. |
Speak Your Word
04:49
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You can’t make it up
It’s gone off the scale
A new day a new deceit
Way beyond the pale
We’ve been fed another story
A new flag for your avatar
The latest thing to lend support to
Appropriation from afar
How can we know what is real?
What we see, hear, touch and feel
Are just perceptions of the one that’s all round us
Nobody’s word can be taken, you can only speak your own
Moving pictures are convincing
Feels like you’re really there
But every image can be doctored
Sewn up so you’re unaware
How can we trust and find the genuine?
Due diligence is a must before you dive in
Line your ducks up in a row before you shoot them
Make sure you know what you know so your flow can flow on through
It’s quite a show and the stage is all around us
Here are your lines, play your role
But it is time to draw the curtains on this act
Leave theatre land and step outside
And then we make what is real
What we need we take but never steal
Build a world where we choose how to deal
What we see hear and touch can be what we want to feel
When separating fact from fiction
Drill down to the core
Don’t take hearsay or assumption
That shit don’t wash here any more
Because we care for what is true
Of this earth there’s a share for me and you
We’ve been underneath the veil locked in bondage
These souls are not for sale we are taking back control
We are taking back control
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10. |
Reason
04:37
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Thought I saw it fly
Heading for the hills
Fleeing from the ills
All around
Sure it must have gone to ground
Or just dissipated
Having patiently waited
To be found
Ch. Overlooked and ignored for there’s instant reward
In the lies and fantasy
A ready-made campaign of fear pushed by marketeers
Locks the door and throws the key
Just when it was needed most
It was abandoned by its host
Whose attention was drawn
By the noise
Now they follow the tune
The piper could play
Them all the way
To the moon
So all the repetition
Forced a partition
Between what was known
And perceived
If it’s said enough
It starts to sink in
Become plausible
Then believed
Where is reason?
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11. |
History On Repeat
05:19
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I would give but I can’t receive
I would cry but I cannot grieve
I would pray but I don’t believe
I would swim but I cannot breathe
I can’t give it all away
I would act but I have no part
I’d begin but where do I start?
I would steer but I have no chart
How do I thaw that frozen heart?
There’s no warmth than can make it through
And the weight I feel
And I reveal my Achilles heel
You push, I pull then I take it down
This programme is just running round and round and round
History on repeat
There’s a wall that I’ve built inside
I’ve made sure that it’s fortified
Left a part of me there to hide
If you climb you will be defied
Only I can break down the wall
There’s a man waiting for a sign
Hoping for planets to align
But his course he can not design
Never reaches the borderline
There’s a roadblock that’s been laid down
There’s pain hidden in the dirt
If you dig you will find the hurt
When disturbed it will just revert
Dark energy to convert
Into presence allowing love
But after night there is always day
In the dark you don’t have to stay
Feel the sun with its golden ray
Re-record what you want to say
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12. |
Shadow Love
06:30
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Earth laid bare, take a spade
Summon strength
Lift your foot and push the blade
Going down so deep
Going down so deep
There are tunnels there, underground
Crawl along
Without sight or without sound
Find out where they lead
Follow where they lead
When you discover
What lies under
Does it grip your gut and twist and form a knot
And make a knot
Only surrender
Will give you closure
So let the creature free, show it some love
Give it some love
These hidden depths must be claimed
Reveal the source
Take it in and own the pain
Let it teach you love
Let it teach you love
All that has been done and all that will be
Bring it together now
It’s here they meet
It’s now they meet
Shine the warm glow in your shadow
Amplify your heart
Be who you are
Be who you are
In that completion there is resurrection
And you will stand in truth
Your truth
The tunnels now are filled with bright white light
The creatures there
They now kiss instead of bite
Because you showed them love
Now you stand in truth
You’re who you are
You own yourself
You show your love
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Benji Kirkpatrick UK
Benji is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Key member of folk big band Bellowhead, Benji has been performing solo for 25 years. Lauded releases such as Boomerang (2008), Hendrix Songs (2015) and Gold Has Worn Away (2019, with own band Benji Kirkpatrick & The Excess) have punctuated his work alongside others – Seth Lakeman, Steeleye Span, Faustus, Oysterband etc. ... more
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