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From This, No More Good Can Come

by Andy Zuk

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1.
Knowitall 03:43
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I'm seasick and I'm lurching back and forth again Getting pulled apart beneath the waves The apocalypse is in the post, here comes the end of days The locusts and dead first born, the plagues Come on steady the boat give me some kind of reason Somebody's going to come and rescue me Spread out the weight either side of the fulcrum Get me back on an even keel And we'll drain the swamp and we'll avert disaster We didn't do it like this back in Canada We didn't do it like this back in '93 We didn't do it like this and I'm world's untold success story I'm in your elephants' graveyard with my skeleton key So what's your story, allegory, your fable? A message in code that no one can hear Tie up the rope 'cos we're down in the doldrums Getting dragged down by the puppeteer And we'll await instructions and avert disaster You know the trends will come back round.
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Where Oceans Turn To Lakes 04:23
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At the edge of the dustbowl Where the oceans turn to lakes The lakes turn into droplets All the liquids changing phase Stands the king of the reptiles The lizards and the snakes When disaster loomed he bit off and chewed And left us in his wake And I feel so let down The clutch, the brakes, the failsafe They're cracking at the seams You pulled the pin, it detonates, You know exactly where this leads Your dance won't end the drought But you make your people oh so proud You're half jester and half necromancer You had a spot of bother, a spot of bad luck and turned it around I feel so let down I led you up the garden path and there's a hole you're going down A victim of what's floating in the air You'll be pushing up the flowers by the time it comes back round And you'll feel so let down The rain's become a waterfall and now I'm going to watch you drown The tides around you flow the waters swell They'll be laying down the flowers but you never will be found And you'll feel so let down
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No Star (Shines Brighter Than This) 03:29
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None of this was as good As you've convinced yourself it was It's not civilisation's greatest loss There is no resonance It's not written in history yet There is no consequence outside your head. It's not that profound It's just a point in history the ancient slime pools around No star shines brighter than this Lost in that familiar kiss The oldest wine always pours So sweet and clear, here and now Keeps on getting eclipsed By what's on top of your list A snapshot of better times You keep up in your mind You keep it in your shrine The crowd didn't go wild The world just shrugged and turned its back It got the name wrong, misremebered words It's not in black and white Just VHS worn out and lined There's nothing worth the effort to preserve What's all this clamour about? Now everything's sad and it's Sunday And nobody's singing that loud Gone to bed young, woke up old? Have the cliches taken hold? The mediocrity and the flaws? Dull shines and feeling less kisses? No ideas or ambition? Now that everything is worse Nothing's stayed the same, in its prime And it's all a waste of time
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The Much Mistaken 04:05
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An odd thought that might cross his mind He gets confused from time to time So the fool of finite jest gets on the line "Will glass flow like a liquid if you give it time?" "Windows thicken at the bottom as the solid slides?" "Will The frames spread out as the pressure bends the lines?" At the risk of coming across all quantum The paths diverge into time's distortion I tell the void but it doesn't understand The finer points just bloom and get more uncertain The seed was sown and the doubt emerges I'm in the weeds and the roots will tighten until I turn blue The abstract figure of sadness calls From the bone orchard of thoughts Where there's insufficient certainty to mourn The voices in the schizophrenic Brake the wheels of progress And the indecision slows it to a crawl He's hollowed out and his thoughts forsaken The dormant fallacies awaken And all the nonsense he indulged It all comes back to him Through megaphones, fuzz and distortion It's taken out of all proportion It's all mixed up and interleaved The second thoughts are taken to extremes Can't push it through, convince the fool of The way it grows, it decays and rolls off The simple gets where water can't if you can't see The spectre of The Much Mistaken The stain of the assumptions taken For a fact when nothing's guaranteed or as it seems
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No Star Interlude 02:04
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Naive and Trusting 04:15
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Are we thinking the same thing? Do my thoughts align with you? The stars converge above us I'm the twin you never knew Can't believe I've met you Read our story in the runes A million permutations All my wildest dreams come true If you're naive and trusting And you're lacking resilience And it seems so unlikely but it's the truth The skull and the bones and The disinformation Automatic writing Must mean something No good can come from this From this, no more good can come it's intentional, it's meant It's just one more thing that I can fixate on The CIA and the Kremlin spread the stories you just can't trust They try to harvest your data One hand washes the other It's just what it does Dont kowtow to the groupthink, the mindset The sleeper cell, dead letter box, conspiracies and secrets The modest muted signs of the daybreak Brighten up for the slow on the uptake The green, the easily lead, the gullible
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Some Polymath/When Push Comes to Shove 09:18
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Some polymath told me what that building's for They only put it there to hide all their transmitters in the walls And in the offices on the floors between the floors They're interpreting the signals And they're locking all the doors Whatever you say, get out of my way, you're wrong, you're wrong And all their efforts will be wasted I've cleaned off their flies from me How do you'll become so trusting and naïve? You don't see the secret agents with the cameras up their sleeves? All your favourite songs are just encoded beeps I'll commandeer your vehicle Outrun all these subliminal messages you send The messages you send, you're wrong And all your efforts will be wasted I've cleaned off all your flies from me I'm telling you the truth but you can't face it The overwhelming facts began to leak The factories the thought police invaded We lost them on our journey to defeat And you're anxious because you complicate the basics Defiance is a prized antique, you're a bag of nerves Gutless and weak Ghosts have chased me up and down The length and breadth of all this stinking country Never more than 6 feet behind my axle as I grind around the hillside This time, it's you or me Somewhere I found what I wanted to be And lost myself somewhere around this country Still I'm only there for show Push came to shove a long time ago Shot my mouth off up and down this country Underneath my nose there's road Where every inch of tarmac smokes And up ahead I see my angel landing Slamming doors and openings Shifting floors and one more thing I'm sinking ever further down this country
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"...and you've changed." 04:50
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Scrambled up your bearings and got lost Over sensitive and soft Tortured by the photos that I took And left breathless by the drop Is it like this because of some celestial design? You're sorry and regretful and forever contrite They took over your body and left a spent lookalike You've gone and you've changed Metamorphosised, deranged You've gone you're not here any more And those superstar thoughts aren't the same Jumbled up your coding, Threw exceptions out on running through your script Kidnapped on a spaceship Didn't recognise your facelift, nothing clicked You said it and you meant it and let the imposter in You turned into a scarecrow, just a husk of a twin So load your dark cargo with your new phantom limb You've gone and you've changed Metamorphosised, deranged You've gone you're not here any more And those superstar thoughts aren't the same

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released September 26, 2021

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Andy is a multi instrumentalist singer/songwriter and producer living in the south of England.

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