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Robert Fripp Album


Network (1985)
1985
1.
North Star (feat. Daryl Hall)
2.
Water Music I (feat. the voice of J.G. Bennett)
3.
Here Comes the Flood (feat. Peter Gabriel)
4.
God Save the King
5.
Under Heavy Manners (feat. David Byrne)
. . .


North star
We stare
How far
How clear

Now touch
Touch here
Now warm
Now near
Now near

Within
With you
With love
With love
How sweet
How filled

Now time
Now time
Now touch
How sweet
How near
How filled
Now time
Time's still
I'm still
Tonight

North star
We stare
How far
How clear
How far
How clear
How far
How clear

Now touch
Touch here
Now warm
Now near
Within you
With you
With love
With love
With love

I stand in the hallway
She stands in the hall
I stand at the doorway
She stands at the door
I lean in the window
She leans on the wind
I wait for beginnings
She waits for the end
For the end, for the end

North star
North star

How far
How clear
Now touch
Touch here
Now warm
Now near
Now near

How far
How clear
Now touch
Touch here
Now warm
Now near
Now near

For the end
For the end
North star
North star

. . .


J.G. Bennett: From the scientific point of view it is now very likely that there will be again another Ice Age, quite soon, in the world; that we shall have the north part of the world all frozen like it used to be, and we're beginning to have natural disasters. From the scientists' study it seems likely that we should soon begin to have these great changes in the earth's climate so people will not be able to live where they have, and the oceans will rise, and many cities will be flooded, like London, and Calcutta, and so on. These things, they say, will happen, according to scientific theory, in about forty years at the most, but maybe even quicker.

. . .


When the night shows the signals grow on radios
All the strange things they come and go as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction
We cannot even choose a side

I took the old track
The hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
They were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
And waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
And as the nails sunk in the cloud
The rain was warm and soaked the crowd

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up dreamers you're running dry

When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn
They'll use up what we used to be

Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up dreamers you're running dry

. . .

God Save the King

[No lyrics]

. . .


Trumpets
I can hear trumpets

Solipsism
Euphemism
Pessimism
Pointilism
Flagellism
Nihilism

Urizel o urizel

Negativism
Positivism
Legalism
Asinism
Cynicism
Terrorism

Urizel o urizel

Jurism
Tourism
Neologism
Imperialism
Cleverism
Criticism
Cataphatacism
Apophatacism
Dogmatism
Apologeticism
Schism
Schism
Baptism
Christening

Bells. I can hear bells.

Conservatism
Liberalism
Centrism


Socialism
Communalism
Leninism
Marxism
Maotseism
Communism
Trotskyism
Fidelism
Facism

Sunder here navy man

Scofistism
Kenosisism
Pneumatologism
Theandricism
Synergism
Monothelitism
Nestorianism
Sacerdotalism
Theurgism
Ecclesiasticalism
Eucharisticism
Episcopalianism
Hesychasticism

I remain in hell, without despair
O urizel

I remain in hell, without despair
O urizel

Stop!

I am resplendent in divergence
I am resplendent in divergence
I am resplendent in divergence

. . .


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