your Cell
New letters across chests emblazoned
You're rewarded with high-5s and embraces
Seating banks are ripped from the theatres
To build forts and to build defenses
In the streets millions gather
Ignite documents and get warm from the
Ink of the burning alphabet

One million buildings crumble
New characters are found in the rubble
Dip the pen in the new ink
So what you write you erase
The stems and the sharers decay
The notes all fall from the safe
And the thumbs of lines see that you're up
Keep the music repeated and repeated

Breaths in and out, anticipate a clicking sound
And the boots on the ground are removed
So the feet dance through the motions of encoding that sound
Analogue mechanisms whir
As a million pins punch tiny holes in reams of tape
And as it breaks a syntax deforms
New letters across chests emblazoned
You're rewarded with high-5s and embraces
Seating banks are ripped from the theatres
To build forts and to build defenses

The hammer beats the ribbons into a rhythm
The greater than symbol and the hash
Become the dot and the dash


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The Greater Than Symbol and the Hash Lyrics as written by David Iain Roy Calum Gunn

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    'New characters that don't even rumble'

    I think this should be 'New characters are found in the rubble'. It makes more sense in context...

    xendless_xurbiaon April 16, 2009   Link

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