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Mooting Videoland

by Balance Lost

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1.
Half Breaths 04:35
Taking half breaths Afraid of going under again Taking half steps Afraid of going forwards But always slipping backwards again Taking half breaths Afraid of going under again Taking half steps Afraid of going forwards But always slipping backwards again Underrated joints that nobody requested This is record #10, is anybody impressed yet? Prophets and meth-heads Heretics on their deathbeds Suddenly repent Think about what they next said But death is the only thing that really connects If you think about life with a snippet of depth And you'll never be alone cos everybody you met Tripping balls for dessert And nobody rejected Taking half breaths Afraid of going under again Taking half steps Afraid of going forwards But always slipping backwards again Too far down one path 'til you find some relief Then you thought the antidote was all that you need Burned your own ass cos of what you overdid But scale it back, man You don't have to quit When you're making a change Stop making it worse Not an etch-a-sketch end of the world and rebirth Good enough is not the enemy of perfection But the wind's always blowing in the other direction Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be Taking half breaths Afraid of going under again Taking half steps Afraid of going forwards But always slipping backwards again Taking half breaths Afraid of going under again Taking half steps Afraid of going forwards But always slipping backwards again Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be Now you're seeing Your wish was not What you thought it would be
2.
Standing by the gate in the crowd No doubt there's some things I didn't do But I wanted to The toxic fumes, the bubblegum The cracks in the sun Oh why can I not be friends with everyone? This cannot be retraced Way back to '98 The tremolo decays And you're wasting Time is not a straight line Redefine The sound caught in my throat The chances come and then go The sound caught in my throat I don't know You're moving away I'm stuck on a riser Searching for meaning or bravery And finding neither The sound caught in my throat I don't know My memory is in splinters And since I lost the photograph I don't remember the winters And the cold blast But the dirty floors and the sweat Were so real As the grass under my feet Up on Jackson's Field And that day in the Vines Way back in '99 The phaser sounds so fine And you're tasting Time is not a straight line I was blind The sound caught in my throat The chances come and then go The sound caught in my throat I don't know You're moving away I'm stuck on a riser Searching for meaning or bravery And finding neither The sound caught in my throat I don't know
3.
Focused on your transient point Rivers that share the same water New strangers were left behind In the once familiar bricks and the mortar For all the mornings that happened without me Some days I'll rise with the sun Calloused fingers, ephemeral symphony Impatiently waiting for the evening to come Looking to windward This life is just a frayed end Spirit escaping Trying to work out what it meant Those basements and cables remain But the dream is already gone Still trying to grip on to something Get back to somewhere you thought you belonged For all the mornings that happened without me Some days I'll rise with the sun My calloused fingers ephemeral symphony Impatiently waiting for the evening to come Looking to windward This life is just a frayed end Spirit escaping Trying to work out what it meant Looking to windward This life is just a frayed end Spirit escaping Trying to work out what it meant
4.
Drifting in the void Abandoned by the ones The ones who used to follow A cumbersome machine I lack the energy To drag it any further What I did I did for us Did I grip too tightly? Now I'm back And I've changed Do you recognise me now? Taking all the blame For everyone's mistakes The cracks get slowly deeper Salvage the remains Of a crippled system And end is a beginning What I did I did for us Did I grip too tightly? Now I'm back And I've changed Do you recognise me now? What I did I did for us Are we caught in crisis? Now I'm back And I've changed Do you recognise me now? Do you recognise me now? Do you recognise me now? Do you recognise me now? Do you recognise me now?
5.
Your crumpled paper Auto Trader You're not defined by what you wear The high street baker Melody Maker Who said life was ever fair? You're getting nowhere You're getting nowhere You're getting nowhere You're getting nowhere The air is cold You're in control The conversation's getting deeper So press rewind Perceiving time Dilation oozing from the speakers It was naive of me to expect We wouldn't change so much So when you get the postcard Think of the things that we gave Was it ever enough? Can you ever slow down? Can you ever just stop? Can you ever slow down? Can you ever just stop? Now I'm satisfied I've become complacent Will there ever be time For the things we forgot? Can you ever slow down? Can you ever just stop? Can you ever slow down? Can you ever just stop? Now I'm satisfied I've become complacent Will there ever be time For the things we forgot?
6.
You came into my life Like a tragic painting A work the critics thought Was maybe missing something And so it went on The guys that you blew The girls that you’ve seen All is connected in the rollup ring Hanging onto every word Holly green There’s no good way To leave this town, So hold up—you’re not in the movies, now You’re not hepburn And I’m no stray More of a television play The girls you went down on To town on MDMA Holly please tell me all about your day When i’m grown i want to be holly green [spoken] And then one day She just left Without a word And I asked after her at the Beer Engine Where she worked lunchtimes She’d left two weeks pay behind the bar There’s no good way To leave this town Seems like I’m not in the movies now I’m not hepburn And you’re no stray soul Trapped in television roles
7.
Peng 5 01:18
Eating that chip fat Flour in the shower pan, What's up? Never gonna clean that, Jelly roll Try another switch hit, Let it go Stick it to my face lol Missile hit the base OH NO! What you got? Now I'm driven to distraction, A hemisphere Trouser on a wire, On the downside I never said Thinking too much over this I never said why Thinking too much over this I never said why Thinking too much over this I never said why Thinking too much over this Vacant little faces Tripping on the paucity of sense She's a peng 5, I took another swig now It's lunchtime, when are you arriving? I vibrate faster than that Cut loose, it's everybody's birthday You don't say what you're really listening to In the tube, but you know what the words mean Thinking too much over this You know what the words mean Thinking too much over this You know what the words mean Thinking too much over this You know what the words mean Thinking too much over this
8.
Show me what you see How can you trust your senses When the chemist takes a fee The lights were bright The music loud You ran towards me through the crowd Sometimes it feels like a dream Maybe I only imagined it I fashioned it From a long forgotten scene Sometimes it feels like a dream Maybe I only imagined it I fashioned it From a long forgotten scene Ever learning from Teenage mistakes Oh to go back And live that life again The things that didn't go my way Made me who I am And the good times made me misbehave Sometimes it feels like a dream Maybe I only imagined it I fashioned it From a long forgotten scene Sometimes it feels like a dream Maybe I only imagined it I fashioned it From a long forgotten scene Sometimes it feels like a dream Maybe I only imagined it I fashioned it From a long forgotten scene Sometimes it feels like a dream Maybe I only imagined it I fashioned it From a long forgotten scene
9.
In the darkness I can hear you Telling secrets You can't keep when you're asleep And if you need release The rumbling builds To a cacophony of Trumpets and broken engines Hey! I got you (I got you) You got me I got you (I got you) You got me I got something cooking Under the sheets I got you (I got you) You got me Hey! You've got yours I got mine We empty the room And blame the other guy If you wanna drop Anywhere anytime The soundtrack of our lives Is trumpets and broken engines Hey! I got you (I got you) You got me I got you (I got you) You got me I got something cooking Under the sheets I got you (I got you) You got me Hey! I got you (I got you) You got me I got you (I got you) You got me I got something cooking Under the sheets I got you (I got you) You got me Hey!
10.
Baggio 04:02
A time of death That keeps repeating School is over I'm still sleeping Can't be heard Above the drum rolls Ships are passing Letters crumble Don't forget how you felt Lapse back into your same old ways The urgency of sitting still Should you take that pill Nobody wants her to go Leave a mess A life to clean What we mean Got no choice But to improvise It's a fix The track skips Not everything I miss It makes no sense For us to fall Hit the floor What was yours No little expense Cut the knot The frayed end Blowing in the storm But you gotta make it neat somehow If not for you Then for her Stand on something concrete Don't forget how you felt Lapse back into your same old ways The urgency of sitting still Should you take that pill Nobody wants her to go Leave a mess A life to clean What we mean Got no choice But to improvise
11.
Talk to me Tell me what you want me to believe Hard to see The image we deny We are passing through To a world lost and confused We stare at the walls And decide what we can do And decide what we can do And decide what we can do Take down the posters off the wall Take back our lives once and for all Take down the posters off the wall Take back our lives once and for all Don't wait for tomorrow (Never say never) Don't wait for tomorrow (Never say never) Talk to me Tell me what you want me to believe Hard to see The image we deny We are passing through To a world lost and confused We stare at the walls And decide what we can do Take down the posters off the wall (Never say never) Take back our lives once and for all (Never say never) Take down the posters off the wall (Never say never) Take back our lives once and for all (Never say never)

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released April 10, 2023

All songs written by Pete Glover, except lyrics for 6 written by Anya Portus and lyrics for 11 written by Thanks For The Frisbee.

Guest vocals by Huan-Hua Chye and Dan Clarke on track 1, Anya Portus on track 6, Thanks For The Frisbee on track 11 and Yu-pon on tracks 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 9.

Cover artwork by Nathan Mader. Cover design and layout by Pete Glover and Matt Hayward.

Mastering done by Studio 246, Kyoto.

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Catchy guitar and synth pop with drum machines and samples. Currently residing in Kyoto, Japan.

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