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Blanks
01:44
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Wherein spirits intermingle on Mars
DRAM: Calliroes sinus
Red-cratered tunnel
Blistering cold
Subheat comatrauma
BRAM: How do we see here?
How do we breathe?
How does the child of the moonglow grow?
Rapaciously
Voraciously
BOTH: We’re all blanks here
Before phasing in
DRAM: How do we see here?
How do we breathe?
How does the child of the moonglow grow?
Rapaciously
Voraciously
BRAM: How’s the kitchen?
Vicious dishes bite
Ollie ollie oxen free
Here we go loop-de-loo
BOTH: We’re all blanks here
Before phasing in
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Liftoff
01:08
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We glimpse Dram in the seconds before
Stars beyond
Are all we can see
Shoulder straps
Biting into me
Like the first blush
Of a new crush
A love affair
Between man
And the cosmos
This rocket
Enters the darkness
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Wherein Bram pledges love, unrequited
Not even the astronauts know
All the places you and I will go
Vaulting high over space
Steps leaving no trace of their passage
And when we come back down
We’ll look around
And find everyone
Stronger and better
Nostradamus has no clue
All the things we’ll do
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Escape Velocity
01:20
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Wherein Dram departs and Bram is bereft
Velocity
Chrome brains in the fast city
Rocket fuel escape velocity
Timing clicked to a switch
Code-switching console
Spark on the fritz
Parabolic fate window
Velocity!
We’ve achieved escape velocity
Straight shot from Luna sitting pretty
She leaves a hint that we’re moving too fast
Chrome boy’s brain is made of glass
And velocity
“We have achieved escape velocity”
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Moonglasses
03:56
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Dram views lunar vistas receding in the rearview;
Bram gazes ceilingward
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Wherein Bram/Dram envision barriers
Do you think you could find
An expanse so extensive
Beyond where stretches
Evidence of the universal growth?
An outside area
Placental roads
Embryonic limit
To universal expansion
This is going to take
Much longer than nine months
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People Of The Moon
02:18
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Industrialists contemplate galactic conquest
NARRATOR: Mr. Bedford
Famed for business acumen
Mr. Cavor for
Scientific eccentricities
Well met in Lympne
To negate gravity
BEDFORD: It’s Cavorite’s promise
We might own and
Order the world entire
CAVOR: A spherical spacecraft
Steel, lined with glass
To visit a lifeless moon
CHORUS: The moon is exceedingly restful
Drifting in weightlessness
Monsters of mere fatness and
Selenites who tend them
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Dram scratches the itch
Hips’ curve like never was
It’s been several days
I’m feeling the need
To deposit the seed
But I know she’s a replicant
She’s grown a terrarium
She’s gorgeous chrysanthemum
Eyes gleaming coins
Hips’ curve like never was
Built for satisfaction
All urges in traction
All methods and positions
Ooh she’s a replicant
Too bad she won’t live
I know she’s a replicant
Too bad she won’t live
Hips’ curve like never was
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Rocket Séance
01:20
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Immanent ghosts of space and time manifest
Candles flicker in solar wind
A séance to bring all the spirits in
Communing with lifeless ectoplasm
Inviting a call from my favorite phantasm
Clasped hands tremble
We get the bends
A séance to welcome
Extremely cold friends
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Bram views the vastness and apprehends cosmic wisdom
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Six Months Of Forever
03:04
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Wherein Dram/Bram grapples with memory’s vicissitudes
Spent half a year
Outside the sphere of
Chronos’s tirades and
Mnemosyne
Shed one half a tear
Fell in my beer
Spoiled that largesse for nostalgia
Outside of my brain
Maybe in Spain
Where the hellions trade animosity
I lost my watch
One day it was gone
I did not care
I swore up and down
Never would I fear the reaper
Safely ensconsced in
Six months of forever
Chronos’s tirades and
Mnemosyne
Time stretching
Across the frame like catgut
Woven and taut
Threaded fine on a golden line
Trapped in the transfer’s euphoria
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Where's My Raygun?
03:49
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Wherein Dram contemplates the classic phallic
I’m slow Buck Rogers
I caught the stray gun
Caught wielding a hot gun
In the 25th Century
Call me Flash Gordon
I’ve got a hardon
For Princess Aura
Where’s my raygun?
I’ve gone Ming
I find myself at odds with my own thing
Focused solely
Upon the ring
Burning within
Churning the crims
Frying through them and him
Leaving the sex
For throbbing pecs
Wielding the raygun
Where’s my raygun?
Lost all the bets
Returned to earth
To quarterback the Jets
Where’s my raygun?
O coach, where’s my raygun?
O Dale, where’s my raygun?
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Wherein Dram/Bram views all possible futures
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Adrift in cosmic debris, daily rations kick in
Tell the tale of the planet denied
Of the orbit failed after tried
Collision in space
Collating trace
Blasted to fragments
Ice range and stone
Gravitational lariat
In the Roche zone
I’m tightening the asteroid belt
Food budget devastated
Worst pain I’ve ever felt
Tightening the asteroid belt
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An omniscient being beams a transmission; Dram/Bram learns the truth
DEAREST GLOBESQUATTERS:
THIS IS ALL AN ELABORATE RUSE
YOU ARE IN A LUCID DREAM STATE
WHIMSICAL RIVERS AND SKYBROWS
PLACE YOUR WAGERS
AT THE BIG CASINO IN THE SKY
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Collapsing Stars
02:17
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Dram enters the universal core
Collapsing stars
Folding in
Upon themselves
In sharp relief
On colossal scales
Gravitic death
Folding in
Upon themselves
Collapsing stars
Folding in
They’re folding in
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C O S M O S I S
02:44
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Dram goes in, Bram comes out—two are one
Movement through membranes
Realms of higher concentration
Designed to equalize possibilities
Meeting of minds
Transposing of destiny
Beginning a climb
To heights of infinity
It’s Bram and then Dram
C O S M O S I S
It’s Dram before Bram
C O S M O S I S
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Joseph Airport Cincinnati, Ohio
"Vector 23 is full of driving post-punk ... Bowie-inflected art rock ... and, at least to one listener, shades of Syd
Barrett-era Pink Floyd." —MAGNET Magazine
"... An eccentric, zany little album whose catchy tunes and peculiar lyrics can put a grin on your face." —The Fire Note
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