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Chemistry
04:23
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Unsure of your identity
Uncertain of your culture
Caught between the high tech and the primal
Their patterns of behaviour
Inflexible in their nature
The kings and their advisors
The cautious and the warriors
Their inclinations cause alienation
Perpetuation of formulae
The battle's uphill but you must fight still
Life's not construction
It's the subtly of chemistry
Meteor storms bombarding
The surface of this planet
Don't let this be your personal mass extinction
Their patterns of aggression
Preach stereotype behaviour
Just let evolution
Leave them in your slipstream
Their inclinations cause alienation
Perpetuation of formulae
The battle's uphill but you must fight still
Life's not construction
It's the subtly of chemistry
DNA is not a blueprint
DNA's not architecture
Unsure of your identity
Uncertain of your culture
Caught between the high tech and the primal
Their inclinations cause alienation
Perpetuation of formulae
The battle's uphill but you must fight still
Life's not construction
It's chemistry
Their inclinations cause alienation
Perpetuation of formulae
The battle's uphill but you must fight still
Life's not construction
It's the subtly of chemistry
DNA is not a blueprint
DNA's not architecture
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Photo 51
04:31
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There is no grand scheme
Though genetics might suggest this
We're not the fever dream
Of a watchmaker in the sky
I may have inherited
A bias towards the negative
But I don't walk upon
A predetermined path
She captured images
Of the wonders of DNA
While most of us
Barely break the surface of the everyday
She captured images
Of the wonders of DNA
While most of us
Barely break the surface of the everyday
Yet another year
Trapped forever in the red
Does your chemical recipe
Constantly drag you down?
Are you doomed to push
That rock back to that mountaintop?
Or will you break the shackles
That exist just in your mind
She captured images
Of the wonders of DNA
While most of us
Barely break the surface of the everyday
She captured images
Of the miracle of DNA
While most of us
Barely break the surface of the everyday
Our footprints in the sand
Chances are will fade away
Some seem born to leave
Impressions that endure
Vision and persistence
Might be key to immortality
But the key that she had cut
Was spirited away
She captured images
Of the wonders of DNA
While most of us
Barely break the surface of the everyday
She captured images
Of the miracle of DNA
While most of us
Barely break the surface of the everyday
That double helix
It was hers before they hijacked it
Unrecognised till long after her dying day
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Arthur Learns to Fly
04:20
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There is no avoiding the anguish
For the hours that crumble to dust
Not the first to feel it or fight it
But if it helps then fight if you must
Break these chains
Break these chains
It's improbable but try
You've got your guide
You're ready to hitch-hike
Far from insignificance
Eager to find the ultimate answer
But you're grounded by indifference
Break these chains
Break these chains
It's improbable but try
With your bare hands
Or your earth-destroying plans
And then miss the ground and fly
Listen to some advice
Even lab mice
Know you might as well try
To get distracted by
Something that causes you
To miss the ground and fly
Might as well miss the ground and fly
The answer's encoded into the static
That carries the messages
Through your brain
Might as well be on Mars for all you care
The language used
Is implausibly strange
implausibly strange
Break these chains
Break these chains
Heart of Gold to pierce the sky
Out of reverse to
The edges of the universe
When you miss the ground and fly
Listen to some advice
Even lab mice
Know you might as well try
To get distracted by
Something that causes you
To miss the ground and fly
Might as well miss the ground and fly
You've found your Trillian
Your one in a billion
But something still itches
At the corner of your eye
Won't you ever see
An end to apathy
Won't you ever miss the ground and fly
The answer's encoded into the static
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I was waiting for the storm to break
In an ocean punctured by snake-tongue lightning
Layers of fossils underneath the surface
Marking aeons thicker than the unreachable depths within your mind
Leather wings pierce the marbled sky
V's in funeral black signify no way back
Too few lifeboats to cope with all transmissions
From the water teeming with the drowning and the overwhelmed
When it seems as though I'll never win
Polar light growing fainter
When the doubts they permeate my skin
Be my serotonin
Thought that I could navigate the planet
Before being overcome by equilibrium
Instead I'm drifting closer to the threshold
Will I plunge into space in a universe that science has turned its back upon
When it seems as though I'll never win
Polar light growing fainter
When the doubts they permeate my skin
Be my serotonin
Be my serotonin
Even in the grip of uncertainty
I know that you can be the polar light for me
Even in the downward slide to insanity
When it seems as though I'll never win
Polar light growing fainter
When the doubts they permeate my skin
When it seems as though I'll never win
Polar light growing fainter
When the doubts they permeate my skin
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Sean Jeffery Worcester, UK
"His solo tracks are some of the most creative, inventive and intricate pieces of work around at the moment." - Kate Ford,
SLAP Magazine - www.slapmag.co.uk/chemistry-by-sean-jeffery-ep-review/
Sean Jeffery is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, UK.
His songs have been featured on BBC Music Introducing in Hereford & Worcester.
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