Name: Black Science
Duration: P00H08M17S
Description: This song looks back at the 20th Century as a whole and the feeling that the worst things stand out more than the best: serial killers, selfishness, neo-liberal economics, the worship of money, sensational fact-free news, the destruction of the environment, apartheid and wars upon a scale unlike anything before. It's the title track because it sums up the whole album.

Black Science

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This song looks back at the 20th Century as a whole and the feeling that the worst things stand out more than the best: serial killers, selfishness, neo-liberal economics, the worship of money, sensational fact-free news, the destruction of the environment, apartheid and wars upon a scale unlike anything before. It's the title track because it sums up the whole album.

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There's sand in my eyes, there's blood in the sand
Nothing's ever changed here and I don't think it can.
cut through the ribbons, trip through the noise
Kick over evidence, the bones of the boys.

Watch every step, taking your time
Spend every second like not enough dimes.
Walking through darkness, in daylight and fog
Through the simplicity, in the face of your god.

I remember blood red wine
I remember we never had the time
I remember an empty sea
I remember the 20th Century.

I remember the worst of days
I remember the price of decay
I remember purgatory
I remember the 20th century.

There's time in the crucible, time left to burn
Nobody's going home and nobody ever learns.
I can't look away, I can't switch it off
The world is hard like death and I am too soft.

Time again I've tried to learn how to fly
But inspiration won't lift me to the sky.
And bound by design, and time, sweet time
Endless until its run when midnight chimes.

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from Black Science, released June 12, 2017
Josh Norling: Saxophone.

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