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lyrics

We'll begin
Well beyond the late-Victorian imaginings of H.G. Wells
Come with me
Pressing forward half-a-century plus

We're in the 1950s
Gone from England to America
We're with the CIA
Conducting covert mind control experiments
Here's where we first feel ourselves
Slightly slipping on time's tenuous banana skin
And we see objects instantly shift locations
An inkling you'd have missed if you'd blinked

Lose ten more years
Somewhere in the 1960s
We'll almost touch time-travel again
Oh so nearly peeling ourselves away from the now
Almost actually letting go
To tumble into the future-past
On a whole host of hallucinogens
Peyote, LSD, magic mushrooms and more

Oh, but then we lost it
Lost the plot
Simply got swallowed
Stole ourselves a century of shallow selfishness
We'll jump that hurdle too

And here we are
At the true start of our journey
We're on a warming planet
Where nothing that's nailed here will survive
This will be our most ambitious leap
One millennium forward
So that we can survive
And life goes on

Wish us luck

credits

from The Columbus Memoirs, released June 4, 2022
(words: Nick Toczek / music: Matt Webster)

Nick Toczek - vocals
Matt Webster - acoustic 6 & 12 string guitars, guitars, drums
Paul Gray - bass
Chris Walsh - flute
Keith Jafrate - saxophone
Harris - guitar
Mark Cranmer - keyboards

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Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha Bradford, UK

Poet Nick Toczek began collaborating with Matt Webster in 2019.
They released Shooting the Messenger in 2020. A mix of indie, jazz and funk grooves with Toczek’s surreal poems and stories.
Walking the Tightrope followed in 2021 & included a guest appearance by The Damned’s Paul Gray.
A third album in 2022. Webster plays many of the instruments with contributions from guests, including Paul Gray, ... more

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