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The Aftermath of a Backwards Learning Curve

by The Overture

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Is this an ending? Is this a placement? Is this a world war? Is this salvation? Take back what you've placed on me, I'll take back what I placed on you. Oh, I've already taken it back. A father's heart with a reckoning so great This is for the love of a diminished fate. We spoke this to the sick. We spoke this to the dead and dying. But what we spoke, concerned the plague And the blood it shed in a figure eight Became so overwhelming. Now courtesies have never been so far from the truth Cos the guilty beg for a doctor and they're begging still. Let peace breed peace, Let war breed war. Let the dead bury their own dead Let the Martyr's laugh just a little louder. For the days of the out-pour are here. So praise the coming of the Lion and the Lamb. Let the damned be damned and the blessed be blessed.
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Code red! We've got a spiritual emergency. This has been our first murder, So please step away! You've been stabbing truth in the face (with your subtle knives) Are the signals coming in clearly? Can you hear me? Are the signals coming in clearly? Can you hear this? Turmoil, butchery and turmoil! For all you who built atop the corpse of God. They thought that he was dead... But no! He has risen! (But no!) Prepare! (But no!) This is our last broadcast (But no!) It shall be known as... (But no!) The outrage... (But no!) Of the Lamb.
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Blame yourself! (Blame yourself!) Cover us with vines. O' when the dawn comes, We will be the ones choking on boiled wine. The wolves are howling to the dark, And the dark cries back an even greater misery. Can we take back all we said? All that we have done. Can we take back all we destroyed? All we swore we'd overcome. Your face is an image of a fake of a man With Diamonds and Emeralds about your hands. The entire she was counting my faults The entire time you were in my pockets. Can we take back all we said? All that we have done. Can we take back all we destroyed? All we swore we'd overcome. It's these discords that lead us here, But it's this dagger I fear, that will end us all tonight.
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Wait! I know you as the Alchemist who tried to steal my Gold. Liar! Deceiver! Condescender! You tried to steal my Gold! When we first met, I thought you were the Gold But as times went by I discovered that you were just the Copper. By the time you had me, my throat had been slit From side to side. Yes, many have found you And many have tried to shed The Angel from their lives To trade the Devil instead. I want the fire. It's a confounding mess. O' I curse you most famous fig tree Your roots will rot, your fruit will crumble. The towers you built oh so tall will topple. I curse you Alchemist, I lift up the Jeweler. I call forth the great revival of the earth. Shaping and polishing these Diamonds That we were entrusted with... Thief, I know your name It is, you are a liar.
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One question! (One question) Nine answers. Oh, it was a baited and glorious hook And we all fell for it. Yeah, we all fell for it! The fashion of the times The opening of your minds The closing of our blinds Oh, these inglorious rhymes. You took a perfectly good house and burnt the walls down. When the winter comes, we will freeze. But I guess you call that 'free'. And when the architect comes home All our ships will be gone. I hope you're not at peace. I hope you're not dead. I hope you're not lost all up in your head. Hurry! Be raised by the Ghost. Send word! Send word! Get out of your head!
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Oh, seventy times seven and twenty four! Many men live in fear timing their clockworks to death. So I love.

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Late 2010, Christchurch Hardcore outfit The Overture released online their debue EP 'The Aftermath of a Backwards Learning Curve'. Here available for free download once again is that EP.

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released January 1, 2010

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