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What is Carved
08:25
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Statue so real, so real and hard
So hard, pure and hard
Fate made of stone
No choice but to love what is carved
No escape from the shape so pure and hard
The lines of the face that’s carved
Misshapen marble…
So real, cold and real
Lines carving love
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Coming Apart
10:06
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I cannot hear your voices anymore, my dearest friends
Repeating magic words, gesture and ritual,
chanting irrational to different gods
Idiot gods
I see too much, no turning back
The walls of the chapel, I see the cracks, and now I’m
coming apart
Prayers of the blind, rites of distrust,
the eye of contagion, vision’s poison touch, and now we’re
coming apart
And I won’t speak the language of the war
The walls have ears, hearing what they want to hear
My brother wears a wire, my sister’s watchful eye
Document my every thought, they’re mounting their case
All day cold war
Every day cold holy war
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There are still things that I can never say to anyone
(I think you know)
My melody marks a trace
(I think you know)
I can’t forget, I can’t unsee it
the afternoon I saw
The curtain rose, blood red open
to start the play of tooth and claw
The noble lies, the words I speak to keep us warm and dignified
(Power laughs)
That melody that you don’t want to hear
(Power laughs, the secret song)
I can’t forget, I can’t unhear it
the afternoon I heard
The choir’s mouth, blood red open
to sing the play of tooth and claw
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We Are Not the Same
05:01
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Our lady of the wagging finger,
Saint of lies, and maybe even truths,
a functionary
Nothing but a gargoyle on that bloated old cathedral they pay you not to see
You and me are not the same
We are not the same
You and me are not the same
Definitely not the same
Our lady of the pushed paper,
File our sins, perform confession,
a form apology
Offices and incense
the moral smoke of witch-flesh
at the DMV
Queen of your department
both cunning and retarded
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What's Been Lost?
05:01
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Deeds of rage, total deeds
Fallen from what? What’s been lost?
Bloodless life, honorless
Tethered to no earth and tethered to no sky
What’s been lost?
Singer, singer, sing in a world without a hero
Singer, singer, sing in a world without the gods
Draw breath…
Prayer, prayer, pray in a world with nothing higher
Prayer, prayer, praying a merely human love
Draw breath…
Fighter, fighter, fighting, with nothing he would die for
Fallen, fallen poem, the history of men
Cano, cano, cano, virumque arma cano
Principium non vidi
I only caught the end
Draw breath
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Diagonal Power
12:07
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Looking for an exit
Fleeing sideways into prayer
Becoming imperceptible, quickened by Hermes
I bide my time, a border-guard in no man’s land
No love for law, no love for crime
Unmoving in my sovereign attitude
Diagonal power…
Freedom from resentment
May my stillness be my flight
Useless to the Clown Word,
a gentleman obstacle
Diagonal power
Quickened by Hermes
Winged by Mercury
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How to Die
09:07
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Learning how to die, releasing my intensity
Pressure of desire, the river seeks the sea
The world without me
Capture the flow
Pooling inside of the fold of a life
Press through the vessel slow
Only to flee to the outside
Open the flow…
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Extra Life Queens, New York
Extra Life was formed in 2007 as the main vehicle for New York-based guitarist/ composer/ singer, Charlie Looker. The music
is a fusion of aggressive math rock, dark dramatic pop, modern classical, and ancient liturgical music. Looker was a founding member of NY noise-chamber outfit Zs, and of industrial metal band Psalm Zero.
Extra Life went on hiatus in 2013, and returned in full force in 2022.
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