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The Man With Many Faces
07:32
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He’s got a fourteen foot scarf, knows how to ride a giraffe, hear his maniacal laughter.
He knows the things which are true, adjusts your angle of view under judicial review.
He’s looking above, he’s looking around.
My advice to you: keep your head down,
And if you can get deep underground.
He’s the man with many faces, captain of disguise.
He’ll set fire to the traces as he births a nest of lies.
He’s not a man you can fool, he went to graduate school, known as the prince of misrule.
He knows no fear and no pain, enormous knowledge domain, it takes too long to explain.
If you strike him down with all of your hate
He comes right back up still looking great.
And if you can see him it’s already too late.
He’s the man with many faces, commander of disguise.
He’ll hit the detonator as he looks into your eye.
He travels through space and time, using the power of his mind, defending all humankind.
He travels through time and space, frequently changing his face, exterminating our race.
He’s the man with many faces, each one has a different hat.
He’ll put you in your place ‘cause only he knows where it’s at.
The man with many faces, doctor of disguise.
Doesn’t seem to care he’s universally despised.
All we wanted was a place that we could call our own,
But everywhere we go is infested with life.
Tried to exterminate the vermin that was here before us.
He tried to stop us, but he won’t take us alive.
Keep your helmets on, children. You’ve got to keep your helmets on.
Keep your helmets on, children. Yes they’ll keep you safe from his eyes.
Keep your helmets on, children. No matter what he says, don’t take them off!
Keep your helmets on, children.
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The Milgram Experiment
07:53
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We will pay fifty dollars for one hour of your time.
It’s a scientific study of memory and learning.
Are you aged between 21 and 52?
Just fill out the form, we’ll send the information through.
The men sat down in a room one at a time.
They asked the questions and wait for the reply.
Just press the button every time the answer’s wrong.
Increase the voltage each time you move along.
How far will you go if you’re not culpable?
How far can you be pushed? You’re not responsible.
How far will you go? You’re not accountable.
How long will you go on?
Will they stop? Will they painfully refuse?
Or will they shock? Pressing on against their will.
They hear the screams and the banging on the wall.
But they are assured no long term harm is caused at all.
Their obedience tested to the limit now.
And submission to a higher authority.
“Just following orders”, the cry is ages old.
Are they to blame, simply doing what they’re told?
Please continue
The experiment requires that you continue
It is absolutely essential that you continue
You have no other choice. You must go on.
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The Lifeboatmen
11:22
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Fisherman for life, working the coast with pots and ropes.
Fishing for crabs, hiring out deckchairs to holiday makers.
But when the call comes, even in the gloom of the night, like a real-life adventure hero.
Into oilskins and sou'westers, rubber boots pulled up high, down to the shoreline.
Dragging the launch across the sand.
Into the dark, the strength of the oarsmen against the pull of wind and tide.
Hold the lantern high.
They brave waves higher than houses to save lives, higher than houses.
Volunteers ready to face anything that the sea can throw at them.
Determination judgement, sweating mariners stretched to the limit
As they pull, heave into the sea.
Pull together. Pull together. Come on boys.
Pull together. Pull together.
Not for glory, not for fame, not for remuneration.
True noblemen, self sacrificing, risking their lives, time upon time.
October 1941, English Trader’s run aground on Hammond Knoll, 1.30 AM.
Can you hear the grinding, crunching, shaking? Wind approaching gale force.
Forty foot waves crash across the deck.
Lifeboat H.F. Bailey sets out from Cromer, repelled by wind and tide.
They try again and again and again and again.
The lifeboat men worked their way to the craft.
Worked for hours through the dawn to bring survivors to land.
Forty men and a dog owe their lives to this crew.
Survivors pulled through.
Fisherman for life, working the coast with pots and ropes.
Fishing for crabs, hiring out deckchairs to holidaymakers.
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Strandbeest
13:32
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-Part I: The creation of Strandbeest
-Part II: The life of Strandbeest
Occupied in creating new forms of life from plastic tubing (all mechanical).
Blurring the boundaries in our minds between art and engineering (biological).
They’re born, they grow, they age, they die.
Through time evolve, weathered and changed.
Captivating, mesmerising, walking on the wind.
Skeletons creeping on the sand, inexorably self-propelling (scatological).
Storing air in their reservoirs, pressure pumping piston muscles (respirational).
Stomachs and wings and legs and brains.
Rotating spine, they move in herds.
Animaris adulare
Animaris daubus caudis
Animaris percipere
Animaris rhinoceros lignatus
Striving to equip his creatures with artificial understanding (intellectual).
They adapt to environments, responding well to their surroundings (habitational).
Live their own lives, they self-preserve.
Surviving storms, they anchor down.
-Part III: The death of Strandbeest
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6. |
Stand Up
18:30
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(i) STAND UP (PART 1)
So why do you wait until the darkness comes up to your door
For it to bother you?
And when do you learn the world is dark and those who bear the light
Will pay for being true?
They're telling you be a big tall boy, go and make some noise
Don't you wish sometimes we were less like gentle men
Knew how to give the world a hand
There must be a way to stand up!
The young and the old. Lives got cut off all the time while life
For you it was too good to understand
It was under your nose, through the years while you were having fun
Thinking about your favourite bands
Tell me what were you supposed to either say or do?
Don't you wish sometimes God would stop being a gentleman
Step in, give us all a hand, and show us a way to stand up!
Is there a way to stand up?
(ii) RAIN
Now you say we need to look out for our own
Your patrons must have been enthralled
And you can print whatever justifies (Your pocket)
You don't abuse that freedom much at all
So we all went along with this
They were criminal chance scoundrels spoiling for a war
I must admit I was afraid, watching daily every hour
But we failed to read the truth and it's only getting sourer
Still I guess that we can live in a world of so much pain
As long as we are in the warm, as long as we can stay protected from the rain
We never want for anything if want is something we'd have to cross the ocean for
To kick our kids above the waterline, witness all their potential washed ashore
We walked by on the other side
No we just couldn't wait to get our heads back in the sand
But we've progressed to 'refugee' from the previous 'migrant swarm'
Now that innocence is lost and enough tears shed for a tropic storm
I guess that we can live in a world of so much pain
As long as we can still be dry, as long as we're allowed to stay out of the rain
God forgive us every one for all we haven't done
There's just no way that I can turn it into poetry or song
It's too tragic and I won't even try, I have to say it to myself as well as you
'Cause to look in the mirror these days is frankly all that I can do
- - - - -
So why do you wait until the darkness comes up to the door
For it to bother you?
And when do we learn the world is dark and those who bear the light
Pay for being true?
(iii) CALM YOURSELVES CHILDREN
Gonna take the world back, are we, or at least you’ll get them on their guard
You're gonna coexist with nobody, ‘cause who wants to work that hard?
Calm yourselves now you children - we'd be children to rise to your bait
We're so sorry you got here just a couple millennia too late
So now you case for all the entrances with a devastating plan
And a mind fixed on a higher law, too shaky to understand
Still the human race can go so far, we’ll have to turn the years right back
Calm yourselves now you children - we'd be children to rise to your bait
We're so sorry you got here just a couple millennia too late
Calm yourselves now you children - we'd be children to rise to your bait
(iv) YOUR HOLY WAR
Look at you faithful, you great re enslaved
Fighting for freedom from the so-called depraved
They are not human no
Though they may cry and bleed the way you do
Just do what you’re told to do while the leaders empowered minds and hearts
Press on, continue to tear lives apart
What evil you advocate
Building some world where everyone’s the same
While the planet reels in pain
Here’s hoping for a light to expose all you thought was right
Turn once again I pray, wash the blood on your hands away
How can you be so sure what on earth it was all done for
Like there will ever be a greater lie out of hell than your holy war
How far will you go? (if you’re not culpable)
How far can you be pushed? (you’re not responsible)
How far will you go? (you’re not accountable)
How long will you go on?
Look at us soldiers, directionless ones
Stopping at nothing to be those who’ve won
What evil we tolerate
What armageddon we’ll expect thanks for
When we’re at the Maker’s door
Here’s hoping for a light to expose all we thought was right
The lives paid in service due to a God that we never knew
While every angel cries, shaking, shielding each other’s eyes
How can we be so sure what an earth is was all done for
How can there ever be a greater lie out of hell than this holy war
(v) STAND UP (PART 2)
'If the people you follow are teaching you to hate and fear, to exclude people for any reason, then they are not sent by Me, even if they say they are.'
'Holiness turns the other cheek knowing God has it all on account.'
Do I get out of the rain?
Do I stay out of danger's way?
No way, Padre!
Stand up like big tall boys, but it won't be with guns that we make our noise
Stand up like we all must do, but it won't be a sword that pushes us through
There's a sacrifice to make and songs that must be sung
We'll build a world for everyone if we stand up
Stand up, do it with your prayer
Set your fears aside, cast away your care
(The world is crying for you)
Stand up with the love that you've found
Let compassion reign strong, spread that good stuff around
(The world is crying for you)
There's a planet out there where goodwill is crumbling down
You know our only option now is to stand up
There's a truth that must be told - the one true war was won
We'll build a world for everyone if we stand up
And our only option now is to
stand up
stand up
stand up
stand up!!!
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7. |
One (Hopeful Song)
07:49
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Moving hard against this tide, no time left to divide the waters.
All this noise and night. Move into a full immersion.
Can’t stop searching for the light. No air to breathe. No one in sight.
Cast adrift. So this is it.
Till I wake up soaking in the glory of the sun.
Another day appears to have begun.
Thought I wouldn’t see another one.
One.
Awakening from my least favourite dream, images burned into my memory.
Darkness just beginning to recede. Praying nothing that I saw was real.
There’s a man who wouldn’t die. A giant beast crawling on the sand.
An evil worship of authority as brave men bring me back to land.
Move in straight lines taking time.
Seek simplicity for my life.
Shut out extraneous noise and light.
Surround yourself with perfect love.
Why not take off your tin-foil helmet?
You don’t need to shut out community.
Will you stand with us in unity?
Fall into this perfect love.
Come oppose the separatists for we are one.
Oppose the isolationists for we are one.
And even if we’re standing in the dark right now,
We’re looking for the light, we’re living for the light.
Clinging to the light. We are bringing you the light.
Of perfect love.
Choose joy, choose love, choose life in all its fullness.
We have hope nothing’s impossible. We have hope this love’s unstoppable
We have hope nothing’s impossible. Immerse yourself in perfect love.
We are salt, we are light, you are love.
We have hope.
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