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Police State
05:26
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Implement the liquid
Apply the electrode
Existential isolation
Becomes your biggest pawn
Police state
Persistence is safe
A remnant guaranteed
Existential isolation
Remains my only pawn
Police state
My only pawn
My only pawn...
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The Bystander
04:36
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Nothing new
Nothing sacred
Gratuitous objects
Gratuitous people
Did I hear screaming?
Did I see blood?
Did I see blue lights?
Something new
Something painful
Newly found objects
Newly found people
I can hear you screaming
I can see blood
I can see blue lights
Go!
The cot
The bridge
The dark street
The ...
The forest
The purse
The gods
The hearse
I'll confess later
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Left With
05:24
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Surveillance
01:50
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Strange dialectics
Induction turns into prediction
Turns into prejudice
Total surveillance
Of the urban world
Complete recording
Of the urban word
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Free Speech Zone
00:03
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The Pain Sequence
00:46
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Dead people on the motorway....
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Pharmaceutical Industry
05:16
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The Iron Pole
06:23
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Differences I never could make out
Suddenly shone
Bright in the dark
The violin players' empty pockets
Seemed to glow
Torches disguised the empty zone
The coldness of your heart
Things I'd never noticed at all
Now seemed to take over a crucial role
Staring men on the bridges
Were reporting
The way I ran
Your instructions
Hit my fireplace
And they introduced me
To the iron pole
The iron pole
Playing darts with my heart
The iron pole
Tearing it all apart
The iron pole
Playing darts with my heart
The iron pole
Tearing it all apart
The iron pole
The iron pole
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The Worst
00:32
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I prepared myself
For what I considered
To be the worst
My darkest sibling
Last things first
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Last Stairs
04:52
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These are
The last stairs
Ending the path of doom
There's a point
Of void somewhere
So I'll be climbing the stairs
Quite soon
Yes...
What will I reach?...
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Last Farewell
01:50
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cryptic scenery Berlin, Germany
cryptic scenery was founded in late 1994. Since then, the project has released a number of CDs, CD-Rs, vinyl records, tapes and mp3s on a variety of labels. The musical style ranges from hypnotic new wave songs to Ambient and drone pieces, from minimalist sketches to electronic tracks. The project was founded and still is led by Christian H. Sötemann. ... more
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