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Whirlwind
03:18
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You cannot change the seasons
But the seasons will change
You cannot change the weather
But you can forecast at long range
Cyclone on the horizon
The winds of change are fierce
The tides may turn against you
You grapple with your fears
We can fly into the whirlwind
We can defy the storm
We can fly into the whirlwind
We can defy the norm
You cannot undo the damage
But you can help to rebuild
You cannot alter the past
But you can alter the future still
Some spend their whole lives
Waiting for the tempest to pass
Waiting for calm
Waiting for a chance
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Panorama
04:44
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Carry me away
To an ocean of storms
On a chariot of fire
Show me the world in the blink of an eye
From this land of desolation
Let me see the panorama
As we stand on the shoulders of giants
Carry me away
To a tranquil sea
Upon the wings of an eagle
Show me what we have still yet to achieve
As we step across the void
From the action
Comes abstraction
From abstraction
Comes the action
Turn the wheel
Stoke the fire
The spirit will not tire
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Wireless
04:12
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A heart full of fire
So eager to proceed
The pull of desire
It's a hunger – it's a need
A little too much courage
Much too little knowledge
Fundamental spirit with
A desperate need to run
It's a high-wire
And we only walk it once
It's a live wire
It can illuminate and shock
It's such a barbed wire
It can leave us in a mess
Until we end up wireless
Operating in radio silence
A heart in lock down
Concentration and self reliance
So coldly focussed, so coldly proud
A little too much knowledge
Can suffocate your courage
Feet fixed on ground
Far too firmly now
Sense and courage
Wisdom and knowledge
Fundamental spirit
With a purposeful advance
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The Arrow
06:33
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If yes cannot be yes
What can we really mean?
If the more we look the less we know
What do we really see?
Flying on the crest of an arrow
Searching all around
Never looking down
Running towards distant thunder
In the dog days of summer
Eyes see only clouds of grey
When all around is colour
Flying on the crest of an arrow
The world rushes past
Each day may be our last
Watching the tide pulling out
Along the battered shore
The sun will soon have set
The waves will crash no more
Flying on the crest of an arrow
Watching planets rise and fall
Entranced by the music of them all
The archer and time's endless flight
The fletcher's cold creation
The mind of man and endless myths
The greatest show of endless tricks.
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5. |
Nuke the Moon
03:35
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These Walls
04:17
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Imbued with the sounds of history
These walls, this floor
Silently echo
With what's gone before
She can feel it in her stomach
She can feel it in her heart
The glory, the pain
The laughter, the shame
These walls
Are reflecting light
These walls
Give you a second sight
Soaked through with a light so bright
These gates, that door
They still glow
With what's gone before
He can feel it in his stomach
He can feel it in his heart
A shadow, or an after-image
These things remain
These were the clothes he wore
This was the sight she saw
These were the coins that paid
This was the stage they played
These were the depths they dived
This is where they survived
It was this place right here
Dreams launched through the atmosphere
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Operation Paperclip
07:02
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As the dust began to settle
From man's most costly struggle
Discarded weaponry and sinister materiel
Littered the barren wastes
And all the secret places
Dreadful treasure to be found
Tired liberators ran from the west and east
A race that would soon shape the world
Metallic curiosities
Discs and jets and tubes
Taken to somewhere far away
But when the hunt began
The search was not for the machines
But the minds of the men who made them
Lost documents and scrambled pasts
Deceit gladly believed
Too talented for justice to be done
To the west they ran
A chance to start again
To whitewash all that they had become
To the west they ran
A chance to start again
To whitewash all that they had done
...To hold them to account
Some kind of redemption
How long?
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Goodbye
04:17
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On a milder day
When the ground is firm
And the burden's not too heavy
We can turn around
To see the footprints
On the paths that we have chosen
Further back the forks and bends
meandering in the distance
The choices that we didn't take
The changes that we didn't make
We have to learn to say goodbye
To the versions of ourselves that we let die
We can see tracks ahead
Some more travelled, some unbeaten
Neither perfect – neither without risk
We have the privilege
We have the chance to take the steps
We can turn and face the right way
We have the luxury
We can choose our regrets
The chance to choose a greater good
Place your bets
We have to learn to say goodbye
To the ties that used to bind
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Habu Ipswich, UK
Habu are; Alex Body (Bass, Vocals, Keyboards), Andy Clarke (Guitar, Vocals) and Alex Dunbar
(Drums).
Since forming in Ipswich in 2012, the talented trio have opened for international artists, Uli Jon Roth and Deborah Bonham, shared billing with Magnum, Landmarq and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown and have become well established in the UK prog scene.
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