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Three o'clock<br />
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===Verse 1===
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The city fog descends upon<br />
 
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The neighbourhood<br />
 
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Looking from the balcony<br />
 
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One cannot see down shrouded streets<br />
 
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Past two blocks.
 
  
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No stars above in the endless black<br />
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Still night, three o'clock<br />
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The streetside trees stretch forth their boughs<br />
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The fog creeps into town<br />
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To grasp and claw at nothingness<br />
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You can't see past the next two blocks<br />
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Nought to see except what lies below<br />
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Your gaze is driven down<br />
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The concrete track<br />
 
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There alone to see<br />
 
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Its every asphalt groove and mound<br />
 
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Thrown in stark relief<br />
 
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By lamplight that discovers<br />
 
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Neither road ahead, nor sky on high<br />
 
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But shutters both, and draws the gaze down.
 
  
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Amidst the fog, one cannot glimpse<br />
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===Slam Poetry Rap===
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The human faces of the neighbours<br />
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The man at his piano, the girl immersed in books<br />
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The neighbours' faces all eclipsed<br />
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The child with its building bricks<br />
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Amidst the mist, you cannot glimpse<br />
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Assembling worlds, starfish hands curled in determined fists<br />
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The girl whose inner world of words<br />
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Isolate, disparate, forsaken, in schism<br />
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Unfurls and whirls inside her brainpan<br />
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Within the abysm of the mist.
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The man who stands and hammers out a jam<br />
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His fix consists<br />
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Of eliciting licks<br />
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With the flick of his wrist<br />
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And mixing rhythmic tricks into a musical apocalypse<br />
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The child who sits with building bricks<br />
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He unpicks and affixes till<br />
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His vision sticks<br />
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His starfish mitts<br />
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They clench and twist<br />
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In stout, determined, baby fists:<br />
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One and all, just how it is<br />
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In schism<br />
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In the abysm<br />
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Of the mist
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===Pre-Chorus 1===
  
 
Between the heat and cold there is the fog<br />
 
Between the heat and cold there is the fog<br />
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Human warmth spread increasing thin<br />
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And human warmth is spread increasing thin<br />
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A host of embers scattered to the wind<br />
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Losing heat without a core<br />
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===Chorus===
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Where was the hearth, cold grey ashes<br />
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Lifeless dust about the floor<br />
 
 
Separation, slow dispersion<br />
 
Separation, slow dispersion<br />
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Of tiny points of light ever growing dim<br />
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Of tiny points of light<br />
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Approaching the ultimate inertion<br />
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Soon achieving cold inertion<br />
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And weak against the encroaching chill of night to contend:<br />
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They can't contend against entropic end<br />
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Entropic end.
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===Verse 2===
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You can't see the stars that shine in the sky<br />
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The fog is way too dense<br />
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Can't see another person, wave hello<br />
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To try would make no sense
  
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Only the concrete can one see<br />
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With heads bowed down to trace our steps<br />
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Ten steps ahead perhaps, no more<br />
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Count cracks and crevices<br />
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Heads bowed down to trace the immediate path<br />
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We never lift our eyes to meet the gaze<br />
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In the aging walk paved by slow machines<br />
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Of the cloud of witnesses<br />
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To count the cracks, avoid the crevices<br />
 
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Never lift their sights to meet the solemn, lidless stare<br />
 
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Of an everpresent cloud of witnesses.
 
  
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If I came with songs and poems of old to clear the haze<br />
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Eking out our feeble lives<br />
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Would you hear the words I spoke to you?<br />
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And never seeing face to face<br />
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And should you feed thereon with faith and thanksgiving?<br />
 
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No, my people, you should turn your face away<br />
 
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For what are the words of the poets and prophets?<br />
 
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Who can discern them? And who is willing?<br />
 
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Bound in chains of darkness, we eke out feeble lives<br />
 
 
Tired roles we endlessly reprise<br />
 
Tired roles we endlessly reprise<br />
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Drinking, laughing, never seeing face to face<br />
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One stroke and we're erased<br />
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Divided, we are swiftly conquered<br />
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And the voice that crieth in the wilderness<br />
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===Bridge===
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Is as utterly alone as all the rest.
 
  
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But the Word of the Lord came to me in a roundabout way<br />
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The Word came to me in a roundabout way<br />
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And as I stand upon the stage<br />
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So I'm calling on that ancient Muse<br />
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To call upon that ancient Muse<br />
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And as I stand before you now<br />
 
I see your faces unconfused<br />
 
I see your faces unconfused<br />
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Behold the book which bound am I to impart<br />
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The scroll inscribed upon a consecrated heart<br />
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Between the cold and heat there is the fog<br />
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Comfort ye my people, saith your God<br />
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Sparks are flying upward on the wind<br />
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For between the cold and heat there is the fog.
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===Slam Poetry versicle===
  
 
The everpresent cloud of smoke, the mist<br />
 
The everpresent cloud of smoke, the mist<br />
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Which rises fragrant from the coals, thrice-blest<br />
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Rising from the coals, thrice-blest<br />
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Eclipsing faces 'midst the softly glowing light<br />
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Eclipses faces 'midst the gentle but unwavering effluence of light:<br />
 
Stand aright!<br />
 
Stand aright!<br />
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Our souls are spread increasing thin<br />
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A breath, a whisper upon the wind<br />
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===Verse 3===
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The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work<br />
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By me hath he renewed the earth<br />
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The Lord possessed me at the first<br />
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Remember, O Man, that dust thou art<br />
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By the Self-same has renewed the earth<br />
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A dying ember upon the hearth<br />
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Remember, Man, that dust thou art<br />
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A dying ember on the hearth<br />
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===Chorus===
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Separation, slow dispersion<br />
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Of tiny points of light<br />
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Soon achieving cold inertion<br />
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They can't contend against entropic end<br />
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===Chorus 2===
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Separation, slow dispersion<br />
 
Separation, slow dispersion<br />
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A flickering light grows ever dim<br />
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Into the chill of night<br />
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Approaching the ultimate inertion<br />
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Unfit alone to bear the burden<br />
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And weak to contend as night encroaches on the world's o'erflowing brim:<br />
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We face the end - Wisdom! Let us attend.<br />
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O Elohim, the end, the end<br />
 
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Wisdom! Let us attend.
 

Latest revision as of 00:29, 15 October 2021

Verse 1[edit]

Still night, three o'clock
The fog creeps into town
You can't see past the next two blocks
Your gaze is driven down

Slam Poetry Rap[edit]

The neighbours' faces all eclipsed
Amidst the mist, you cannot glimpse
The girl whose inner world of words
Unfurls and whirls inside her brainpan
The man who stands and hammers out a jam
His fix consists
Of eliciting licks
With the flick of his wrist
And mixing rhythmic tricks into a musical apocalypse
The child who sits with building bricks
He unpicks and affixes till
His vision sticks
His starfish mitts
They clench and twist
In stout, determined, baby fists:
One and all, just how it is
In schism
In the abysm
Of the mist

Pre-Chorus 1[edit]

Between the heat and cold there is the fog
And human warmth is spread increasing thin

Chorus[edit]

Separation, slow dispersion
Of tiny points of light
Soon achieving cold inertion
They can't contend against entropic end

Verse 2[edit]

You can't see the stars that shine in the sky
The fog is way too dense
Can't see another person, wave hello
To try would make no sense

With heads bowed down to trace our steps
Count cracks and crevices
We never lift our eyes to meet the gaze
Of the cloud of witnesses

Eking out our feeble lives
And never seeing face to face
Tired roles we endlessly reprise
One stroke and we're erased

Bridge[edit]

The Word came to me in a roundabout way
So I'm calling on that ancient Muse
And as I stand before you now
I see your faces unconfused

Between the cold and heat there is the fog
Sparks are flying upward on the wind

Slam Poetry versicle[edit]

The everpresent cloud of smoke, the mist
Rising from the coals, thrice-blest
Eclipses faces 'midst the gentle but unwavering effluence of light:
Stand aright!

Verse 3[edit]

The Lord possessed me at the first
By the Self-same has renewed the earth
Remember, Man, that dust thou art
A dying ember on the hearth

Chorus[edit]

Separation, slow dispersion
Of tiny points of light
Soon achieving cold inertion
They can't contend against entropic end

Chorus 2[edit]

Separation, slow dispersion
Into the chill of night
Unfit alone to bear the burden
We face the end - Wisdom! Let us attend.

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