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The Mascot 3000:

Tales left untold on a trail that’s gone cold in a hearth where the fire’s gone to sleep
Wishes unwished by a sad, sweet abyss who’s in love with the tears that you weep
The girl who’s returned from eternal sojourns who arrives just before she has left
She kisses you twice before leaving that night but like always again you forget

Elysium Elysium

A theater, a stage and a radio play with a plot they try vainly to change
The cast and the play waltz for time and a day until tucked into beds led astray
A door has been rent where the incomers went in a quest for their city of dreams
But foolish they’ve been much to their sad chagrin. Things are not, you might know, as they seem

Elysium Elysium

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from An Atompunk Opera, The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness, released July 29, 2014
Featuring Kayleigh McKnight

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These days the teddy bear picnic is a rather somber affair. They mostly just sit together in silence. The beings who had taken these guises had over time lost all recollection of their origins, purpose, or selves. They only know they are someplace foreign, cut off from whatever homeland they once had, utterly alone in an incomprehensible world. Some picnics they listen to Paul Shapera. ... more

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