CD ecopack with 8-page lyrics booklet and
delightful reverse willow-pattern CD.
Album cover artwork by brussels underground legend djp ddjjpp.posterous.com
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a timeless track. a stratospheric snapshot of this beautiful planet, between dawn and dusk.
lyrics
late victorian
planet blue, planet zoo, late victorian;
noah's ark, pleasure park, final boarding;
furnace fires, dreaming spires see the dawn in...
children playing on a precipice,
teach your cannonball to fly;
alpha males, fairy tales,
don't you think that river has run dry?
super-powers, cooling towers, statues falling;
flying fish, make a wish, painting dorian;
moving lips, pleasure trips, airships mooring...
children sleeping on a razor's edge,
counting castles in the sky;
we saved the whale, burnt the jails,
taught the laughing hyena to cry...
children building in the wilderness
a great glass ceiling in the sky,
open your eyes, open you eyes,
see this dying world with new-born eyes;
we heard the word, heard the word,
the late victorians just learned how to fly...
credits
from Late Victorian,
released March 19, 2011
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