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Cut the Black Wire

from demo trax by Platzangst

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A "warmup track", done hastily just before February 2010. I had originally planned to do an album for the RPM Challenge in about this kind of style, but was not able to finish it in time. I'll probably work this and the rest of that unfinished material into a non-RPM album at some point.

lyrics

Is it true?
Send it through
Put the man in the room
Clear the scene
Make it clean
Gonna need some light to work
Is there time?
Is there space?
Detach the bolts from the case
Now here's the parts
All the parts
All the pretty colored parts

A hundred lines
Watch the time
Keeping pace with the count
Making clicky clicky clicky with the grips of the pliers
Here's the chart
Shall we start?
Are these instructions still good?
Cross your fingers
Cross your heart
Cross the conductors and press hard, now:

Collapse or structure
Which way will it drop?
When you cut the black wire
Which beat will it stop?

Cut the sound
Knock it around
Make sure the cords are taped down
Put the eyes in the room
Test the zoom and rig the boom
We're counting back
Keep on track
Subtracting time with each fact
Now here's the lines
All your lines
Hundred consecutive lines

Is the message still good?
How will we know when it's been heard?
Check the signal
Check the air
Satellite throws from here to there
No more time
No more space
No more data left to trace
Hearing ticky ticky ticky till the second hand hits back

Riot or quiet
Which way will it drop?
When you cut the black wire
Which beat will it stop?

Tap your finger
Tap the mouse
Tap your heel on the floor
Tap the desk
Tap the keys
Tap knuckles to knees
Too much time
Too much space
But not much air in the place
Cannot leave
Cannot stay
Too many clocks in the way

With every glance at the wall
The clocks will grind to a crawl
Beating ticky ticky ticky through the cracks of your shirt
Another third of a day
Another tick burned away
The hourglass drains out with all the feet in the parking lot

Werewolf or vampire
Which way will it drop?
When you cut the black wire
Which beat will it stop?

Here's your choice
Shall we begin?
Plug all the pieces back in
Missed the start of the race
Losing time
Losing space
Prepare yourself for the truth
Get set to move
Find the proof
Can you push yourself through
Or will you lay down and sleep?

Now write the lines
All the lines
A thousand pretty little lines
That have been clicking clicking clicking
In the back of your mind
Tap the wires
Tap the keys
Construct the construct by degrees
Provide the faithful insistence
Evidence of your existence

Nothing or something
Which way will it drop?
When you cut the black wire
Which beat will it stop?

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from demo trax, released January 1, 2009

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Platzangst sometimes makes noise, and sometimes makes music. Sometimes a little of both at once. What will come next? Difficult to say. Who likes it? Precious few.

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