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Let me tell you the magic tale
Of the girl who faced her fate sublime
When she went out one night to post her mail
And understood her place in space and time
She looked up at the sky on that cloudless night
And peered into infinity
The deepest darkest mass if it weren't for lights
Crowding her vicinity
(Because like delights in like)
She was the girl with the celestial soul
She was the girl with the celestial soul
She was the girl with the celestial soul
She was the girl with the celestial soul
With family and friends she had to bluff
Not to scare them with what they wouldn't know
Such as the fact that we are made of star stuff
From our heads down to our toes.
But then just like a star that will grow cold
Her brightness both a blessing and a curse
She burned out into a big black hole
Trailblazing through the multiverse
(Yes she did, because…)
She was the girl with the celestial soul
She was the girl with the celestial soul
She was the girl with the celestial soul
She was the girl with the celestial soul
And I've got to see that girl again
She was both starlight and dark night
Unfathomable and bright
The cosmetics on her face
Revealed the cosmic depth of space
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Geodesic
03:57
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Where can you be? Darling, where can you be?
Verse 1
In one dimension it's a single dot
In two dimensions it's the longest shot
In three dimensions it's the shortest route
The fourth dimension does not follow suit
For if my sense of time differs from yours
Then there's no telling when I'll reach your shores
Chorus 1
But 'til we meet again I will not rest
(I'll be on my way)
I'll find the geodesic to your love
Like planes that go up North to go far West
(I'll be on my way)
I'll ride a geodesic to your love
Verse 2
Your body heat, its taste of gin and lime
I miss the way it used to warm my marrow
I know I can't turn back the hands of time
But I am sure that I can bend its arrow
And there is nothing even Cupid could do
I'll bend it 'til it circles back to you, 'cause
Chorus 2
Until we meet again I will not rest
(I'll be on my way)
I'll find a geodesic to your love
Like my lips in orbit around your breast, yeah
(I'll be on my way)
I'll ride a geodesic to your love
Geodesic to your love
Geodesic to your love
Verse 3
Out of sight and mind have I wandered
Or has my absence made your heart grow fonder?
In any case,
I hope the line is getting thinner and thinner
Between what's real and what's been on my mind
Like Joey Dosik wishing for game winners
I dream that I can see the stars align
And trace trajectories through the heavens above
Like geodesics leading back to your love, oh-ho!
Choruses 1 and 2
Until we meet again I will not rest
(I'll be on my way)
I'll find the geodesic to your love, hey
Like planes that go North to go far West
(I'll be on my way)
I'll ride a geodesic to your love
Until we meet again I will not rest
(I'll be on my way)
I'll find a geodesic to your love
Like my lips in orbit around your breast
(I'll be on my way)
I'll ride a geodesic to your love.
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Electron Clouds
03:39
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I read a paper yesterday
It said that science has revealed
We have no sense of touch per se:
We only feel magnetic fields.
When we think our bodies touch
Some space still stands between our skins
There’s nothing we can ever clutch
We only make electrons spin.
Must we always stand electron clouds away?
(Must we stand small clouds away)
Are we only fit for passion at a distance?
(Are we fit for love?)
Must we always stand electron clouds away?
(Must we stand small clouds away)
Is that all there is to the matter of existence?
(Is that all there is?)
You see, I’ve got these pressing questions,
And they all touch on touching you:
Could we get more than sense impression
And hopes of being stuck like glue?
When my caresses rearrange
The curls of your hair just a touch
And at the same time, I am changed,
Are we really not in touch?
Must we always stand electron clouds away?
(Must we stand small clouds away)
Are we only fit for passion at a distance?
(Are we fit for love?)
Must we always stand electron clouds away?
(Must we stand small clouds away)
Is that all there is to the matter of existence?
(Is that all there is?)
What if we took another angle?
What if we’ve never stood apart?
What if we’ve always been entangled
And our gazes life impart?
What if touch is the stimulation
That defines what is you or me?
What if touch is the separation
Before which we can't ever be?
If we always stand electron clouds away
(If we stand small clouds away)
We are are fit for more than passion at a distance
(We are fit for love)
If we always stand electron clouds away
(If we stand small clouds away)
There is so much more to life
(So much more to life)
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Let's do the quantum quake
Like we've got feathers to ruffle
Just shuffle when I shake
When you shake I'll shuffle
This kick drum won't be muffled
And it's not yet daybreak
We get entangled in this dance, it is plain to see
When I shake you shuffle
When I shuffle you shake
There must be spooky action between you and me
We do the quantum quake
Forgetting feathers get ruffled
I shuffle when you shake
When I shake you shuffle
We do the quantum quake
We do the quantum quake
The faster you move
The less I know where you are
But when you find your place, then I can't tell your speed
I only know this groove
May well take us too far
But that kind of uncertainty is half of what I need
Let's do the quantum quake
Like we've got feathers to ruffle
Just shuffle when I shake
When you shake I'll shuffle
Let's do the quantum quake
Let's do the quantum quake
Don't be no chicken now!
I'd sure like to scoop
Anything you might serve
'Cause you know I can't quantum leap on steak and shake
Give me atomic soup
So I can bring you the verve
Of that cosmic transcendental funky quantum quake!
Let's do the quantum quake
Like we've got feathers to ruffle
Just shuffle when I shake
When you shake I'll shuffle
Let's do the quantum quake
Like we've got feathers to ruffle
Just shuffle when I shake
When you shake I'll shuffle
Let's do the quantum quake
Let's do the quantum quake
Let's do the quantum quake
Let's do the quantum quake
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I love you more than you will ever know
Never will I let death do us part
I'll write all sorts of verse where we can grow
And if we cannot live on through the arts
If we die here I know we live elsewhere
We go extinct because we come as specters
There is a multiverse for us to share
We go extinct because we come as specters
We begin by coming back.
Everybody's talking about the end of man
But darling when it comes no one will see
From absolute extinction eyes are banned
Unless they open wide with poetry
If we die here I know we live elsewhere
We go extinct because we come as specters
There is a multiverse for us to share
We go extinct because we come as specters
The reason why I hope our kind won't die
Is that I wish you may forever live
It's not about me, me myself and I
My main concern right now is how to give
If we die here I know we live elsewhere
We go extinct because we come as specters
There is a multiverse for us to share
We go extinct because we come as specters
If we die here I know we live elsewhere
We go extinct because we come as specters
There is a multiverse for us to share
We go extinct because we come as specters
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Je vise l'intégrale, le cantique des quantiques… physique.
Bien souvent, par inadvertance,
Je laisse le rêve me dérober
A l'emprise immédiate des sens,
Aux mots qui me sont adressés;
Et elle se lasse de ces absences
Qui toutes voilent mon regard
Et me soustraient à sa présence
Comme tant d'adieux de quais de gare
Mais même ailleurs je suis ici
Comme si je pouvais traverser
De brèves bribes d'autres vies
Toutes vécues en simultané.
Je vise ce graal, prise l'intégrale des chemins,
Chante le cantique des quantiques physiciens
Comme un long psaume qui fait la somme de mes histoires
Et change le nombre de mes ombres en espoir.
Je n'ai pas peur de la douleur
Qui se profile à l'horizon
De certains chemins pleins de pleurs
Et de funèbres oraisons
Je retrouverai mon âme soeur
Même au travers des trous de ver
Comme pour ce chat de Schrödinger
Neuf vies me seront mince affaire.
Et même ailleurs elle sera là
Comme si elle avait traversé
D'autres univers à tours de bras
Et nous pourrons nous embrasser.
Je vise ce graal, prise l'intégrale des chemins,
Chante le cantique des quantiques physiciens
Comme un long psaume qui fait la somme de mes histoires
Et change le nombre de mes ombres en espoir.
Je vise l'intégrale
Le cantique des quantiques
Je vise l'intégrale
Le cantique des quantiques.
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If only Imaginary numbers
Were labelled with the letter I
Because the dreams that soothe your slumber
Are peopled with my loving eyes.
But I've put two and two together:
I don't think I'm on your mind,
And I am wondering whether
I should act like I am blind.
But how could this be love, not evasion
If you only belong in my equation
As an imaginary number?
Imaginary number!
Bob Marley used to say "I and I"
And i times i is minus 2
My main concern is U and I
And I think U should mind us 2
But if you don't, here's what I'll try
I will pretend that you do
For who could I be living a lie?
The strength of dreams is always true!
But how could this be love, not evasion
If you only belong in my equation
As an imaginary number?
Imaginary number!
(Who said math rock?
Did you just say math rock? Well…)
When I add the sum of you and me
I'm glad I'm not coming up with three
But neither am I coming up with two
Although I wish I could count on you.
I had forgotten time divides
And in my mind I am with you
But in your heart our love has died
And I must say that we are through
But how could this be love, not evasion
If you only belong in my equation
How could this be love, not evasion
If you only belong in my equation
As an imaginary number?
Imaginary number!
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Dark Matter
02:29
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Alice went through the rabbit hole
Because a black hole has no hair
The Cheshire Cat was not a mole
And Schrödinger's was no March hare
Go and ask the Mad Hatter:
Space is full of dark matter
Dark, dark matter
Dark matter
Dark matter
Dark matter
DJ stands for John Divine
Who wished that he could turn the tables
Instead of watching stars decline
And horsemen bolt out of the stables
But when he performed, the people would scatter
Or check their DM's, and that's no light matter: it's dark
It's dark, dark matter
Dark matter
Dark matter
Dark matter
Oh, this multiverse is full of dark matter
Dark, dark matter
Dark dark matter
Dark dark matter
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THIS ΩNE'S FΩR ALL THE MIGRANTS ΩF THIS WΩRLD: YΩU'VE BEEN ΩN MY MIND.
THEY HAVE FΩRGΩTTEN THAT SUN CITY
IS KNΩWN AS PASSAGE TΩ THE NΩRTH
IN THIS LIGHT IT IS A PITY
THAT PEΩPLE CAN'T GΩ BACK AND FΩRTH
ΩNCE THE TEX WAS ALSΩ MEX
THERE WAS NΩ WALL ΩR BΩRDERPLEX
CHΩRUS 1
AND WHEN THERE'S A WALL, THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY,
IF ΩNLY WΩRMHΩLES IN TIME.
WHEN THERE'S A WALL, THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY
AIN'T NΩ USE IN BΩRDERLINES,
NΩ.
THEY HAVE FΩRGΩTTEN ALL THE SLAVE SHIPS
THAT THREW THEIR CAPTIVES TΩ THE SEAS:
NΩW MIGRANT BΩATS CAPSIZE IN RIPS
AND PEΩPLE ACT LIKE THEY DΩN'T SEE,
BUT EVERY WAVE RETURNS A GHΩST
THAT CΩMES RΩLLING TΩ YΩUR CΩASTS!
CHΩRUS 2
'CAUSE WHEN THERE'S A WALL, THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY,
IF ΩNLY WΩRMHΩLES IN TIME.
WHEN THERE'S A WALL, THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY
AIN'T NΩ USE IN BΩRDERLINES,
NΩ.
WΩRMHΩLES…
EAR WΩRM!
CHΩRUS 3 (X2)
WHEN THERE'S A WALL, THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY,
IF ΩNLY WΩRMHΩLES IN TIME.
WHEN THERE'S A WALL, THERE'S ALWAYS A WAY
AIN'T NΩ USE IN BΩRDERLINES,
NΩ.
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Leo Courbot Brussels, Belgium
Dark matter in my rock'n'roll sparkles with celestial soul.
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