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Stereotomy Lyrics

Diamond eyes
That burn me and turn me to stone
Crystalise
And freeze me in clear monochrome

Turn me to stone; do anything you want with me
Turn me to stone; do anything you want
Stereotomy
We can make it together
Do anything you want with me
Do anything you want

Scarlet minds
Possess me and I feel no shame
Silent knives
Dissect me and I feel no pain

Stereotomy
We can make it together
Do anything you want with me
Do anything you want
Stereotomy
We can make it forever
Do anything you want with me
Do anything you want

Starlight beams
Project me in red blue and green
Velvet dreams
Protect me when I hit the screen

Stereotomy
We can make it together
Do anything you want with me, do anything you want
Stereotomy
We can make it forever
It's always the same, it's always the same
Stereotomy, we can make it
We can make it, do anything you want

Turn me to stone
Do anything you want with me
Cover my eyes
There's nothing more they need to see
Turn me to stone
Before there's nothing left of me
Make me a rock
And not what I appear to be
Turn me to stone
Turn me to stone
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Submitted by
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"Stereotomy" is an architectural term referring to the precise cutting of stones to place them together without having to use mortar as a bond. How it applies to the song, I'm not sure.

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Okay, I think I got it. From what I can tell, the underlying theme of the album "Stereotomy" is celebrities and how they are kind-of molded and interact with society.

Looking at the lyrics, I think this song is about how actors become canvases; the writers invent characters and then use the actors to carry them out. Again, I'm not sure...just a thought.

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The official video emphasizes the manipulation of images with showing people doing things and then the action suddenly stops, or suddenly changes. I'm thinking the term applies in the precise cutting of various sections of the video and song to make it seem real yet surreal.

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Is Stereotomy just a name? or what does it mean?

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The lines:

Starlight beams Project me in red blue and green Velvet dreams Protect me when I hit the screen

...are a reference to television. In the now old 'standard' tube TV, the screen (picture) is made up of red, blue and green pxels. If you look very closely at such a screen, you can clearly make them out.

So, taken with the repeated "do anything you want", my early take (without too much thought) refers to how television or video and/or images in general can be deceivving or manipulated.

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sonic modernity

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Yeah, surveillance, that's it. It's the 'Eye in the Sky' concept back again. But just a comment, never saw a better song accompanied with a worse video, maybe along with 'Five Miles Out' by Mike Oldfield.

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What about surveillance??

I think AP covered that in Eye in the Sky.

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Yeah, but I think it comes back again here. In 'Turn of a Friendly Card' there is an instrumental track based in a Poe's tale, 'The Gold Bug', although they had covered that in 'Tales'. In 'Eye in the Sky' 'Step by Step' speaks about gambling and seeking for fortune, although that time had been covered in 'Turn'. Just guessing... I think although 'Stereotomy' hasn't got an 'official' or specific concept, all the songs speak about alienation in modern life.

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Yes, but I would say as a smaller point to the larger "Manipulation/Control" of or through the media.

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