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01. Inclination

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
Come see the fool
He'll swindle you out of the game
Bow down to him
But don't ever give him your name
He stole it from somebody else
He can fake it forever
The sugar and void in the holdall
It's pulling me down to you level

One at a time I will take you all on
If you've got the time then I've got the inclination

Don't hold it back
Just say what you really think
One at a time please spare me
It's the open sеason, yeah
You gave me a part in a moviе
And I gave you a target to aim at

One at a time I will take you all on
If you've got the time then I've got the inclination
Inclination

02. What Life Brings

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
Were you standing in the haze?
The oscillating sunset fades
In the autumn past
Knowing it won't last
Gone but that's just too bad
Cause that's what life brings

Were you a bird that fell to earth?
Or just a tremor in my nerves?
That will soon pass on
When the shadows grow long
There's no need to be strong
When you're lost in dream fog

Were you standing in the haze?
The oscillating sunset fades
In the Autumn past
Knowing it won't last (won't last)
Gone but that's just too bad
Cause that's what life brings

Love it all
Love it all and hold it in your hands
Love it all (Love it all)
Love it all (Lovе it all) and hold it in your hands
Love it all (Love it all)
Love it all (Love it all) and hold it in your hands (hold it in your hands)

03. Economies Of Scale

Music by Steven Wilson
Lyrics by Steven Wilson & Adam Holzman
Black freighter regale
Is lost in fog
Moving testament
To all that's lost

And I try to close my palm

Don't stumble
Don't idle
God willing we'll get through this
Just more things that won't be missed

Economy
Economy of scale (Led to)
Economy of scale
Economy of scale (Led to)
Economy of scale
Economy of scale (Led to)
Economy of scale
Economy of scale (Led to)
Economy of scale
Economy of scale (Led to)
Economy of scale
Economy of scale (Led to)
Economy of scale
Economy of scale (Led to)
Economy

An evening in decline
A cigarette unwinds
One moment just passes through
All time leaves is me and you

04. Impossible Tightrope

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
Harmony little sister
Find your way through the fog

A bed of silence. The howl of the wind

05. Rock Bottom

Music & lyrics by Ninet Tayeb
[Ninet Tayeb]
I feel it
I feel it in my bones
New life the unknown
New life I will return

Don't lose hope
Don't lose hope
Don't lose hope
Stay alive
Stay alive

I feel it
I feel it in my bones
New life the unknown
New life I will return

Don't lose hope
Don't lose hope
Don't lose hope
Stay alive
Stay alive

[Steven Wilson]
I feel it
I feel it in my bones
New life the unknown
New life I will return
Don't lose hope
Don't lose hope
Don't lose hope
Stay alive
Stay alive

[Ninet Tayeb & Steven Wilson]
(Don't lose hopе) And all you want to do is to fall
(Don't lose hope)
(Don't lose hopе)
Break apart
Close your heart
Surrender and let the bottom rock
Break apart, Break apart

[Ninet Tayeb & Steven Wilson]
Break apart, Break apart
Break apart, Break apart
Break apart, Break apart (Don't lose hope)
Break apart (Don't lose hope), Break apart (Don't lose hope)

[Ninet Tayeb]
I feel it
I feel it in my bones
New life the unknown
New life I'm coming home

06. Beautiful Scarecrow

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
Pull off my legs
Pull off my wings
You beautiful scarecrow, you pulled the strings
You deep in the shed, you deep in there
You want odd things, you can never get
You spend the hour
You suck the air from the room and give me cause to doubt
And here you are in your new carrier
You leave them all behind
You're such a bad idea

You twist the face, you twist the fence
You're lashing out to see how I react
You never wanted, you never lived
You're a beautiful scarecrow, you'rе unimpaired

No longer slaves
But just a lonely souls took their place
And here you are a charming racketeer
You leave them all behind, you're such a bad idea

07. The Harmony Codex

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
It seems I’m miles above the surface of the earth
I can see across the whole of London and beyond
Lights from a thousand cities
Towering buildings in far off places
Ships and thunderstorms at sea and beyond
A trillion stars in a billion galaxies
I gaze out across the millennia it took the light from these
Stars to reach the earth
I close my eyes
And breathe

I came here searching for something
But I don’t remember what that thing is anymore
Did I dream you?
Or are you dreaming me now?
As your waking thoughts gradually take over
As all dreams are ultimately forgotten
And lost

08. Time Is Running Out

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
A cigarette on a summer night
Like the short lived soul of the man inside
And the noise that you hear as you write off another year

You just lean into the rain
Pull your head down put your head upon the rail
Now you realise that God has let you down
Cos time is running out

You startled deer in the headlights
You had a panic attack midway through the flight
You're spending time on the same website
Taking issue and picking fights
Cos you no longer care if you're well liked
But you brood endlessly for your own plight
Cos timе is running out

The future now and the poison girls
Taking on thе kick inside and a war of worlds
And the sound that you hear as you pass through another year

You're thinking maybe it's too late
To raise your head and conjure up some kind of break
Cos it's just rock'n'roll with no quality control
And time is running out...

09. Actual Brutal Facts

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
Condescending will as condescending does
You've got a pretty solid habit for killing the buzz
An electrician or a secret millionaire
A tacky statue on a forecourt in Bel-Air

No plastic surgery, no tattoo on the brain
You drag the passing years behind you on a ball and chain
Squander this and that, the feted and the hated
And when you turn the shit to gold it's not appreciated

And when you turn the shit to gold it's not appreciated
(A pretty solid habit for killing the buzz)

It's for the underdogs the ones that disappear
It's in your gut you feel the splendour of the fear
Sayonara is the nature of the beast
It's mine to leave behind a merciful release

Misappropriation, take the credit, pay the income tax
Misdirection from the actual brutal facts
You preach the truth through gritted teeth, you want a fucking medal
You've got a belly full of guns that doesn't make you special

Condescending will as condescending does
You've got a pretty solid habit for killing the buzz
An electrician or a secret millionaire
A tacky statue on a forecourt in Bel-Air
No plastic surgery, no tattoo on the brain
You drag the passing years behind you on a ball and chain
Squander this and that, the feted and the hated
And when you turn the shit to gold it's not appreciated

And when you turn the shit to gold it's not appreciated
And when you turn the shit to gold it's not appreciated

10. Staircase

Music & lyrics by Steven Wilson
Automaton drone
You're lost with no phone
And the home you made your own
Can never be paid for
The great in the small
The rise and the fall
And you come back for more

The need to belong
And the will to do no wrong
The ones that you lost
Abandoned or crossed
Will haunt you

Plagued by poor health
But you stockpile more wealth
Congratulate yourself
A sense of proportion
An act of extortion
There's too much distortion

You sink in stages
As you're approaching middle ages
You're up to here in debt
Insidious tech
You're up to your neck
Why don't you give it a rest?

A train set
A cold war threat
A prison
A poison nest
A chrome cassette
Division
The blue and white
A power strike
A girl you like
The daylight fades
You feel your way
Daguerreotype

The power of nature
And the oppression of strangers
The consequence of dread
A barbarous brain
A dominant strain
You'll never win this game