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Reflection

by Anu

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1.
[instrumental]
2.
It's the strangest thing Must be a waking dream The strangest thing Or the latest invention Reflections Holographic projections Some cruel trick Or pharmaceutical deception Through the downtown crowds in the rainy streets You were walking around with another new me I saw you last night I couldn't believe You were running around town with another new me I used to be the one Now I'm just one more Of many From which to partake And this I could endure If I could just be sure That I am the true me And not a fake In the singles bar I counted three You were dancing close With another new me Tonight I know where you'll be Making love To another new me Now everywhere I look Is another new me
3.
I pinch myself but I don't wake up I cut myself but I still feel numb The drugs The drinks It's later than you think I starve myself but the weight won't lift I beat myself up and I can't stop it Then you appear Tell me what I need to hear Late at night Nearly three You whispered to me We are The Only Things We need I watch the news but I'm still confused Does any of it make sense to you? The world How I feel It all seems so unreal My love, my friend Waiting for the world to end We are The Only Things We need Stroke my head Take me to bed We are The Only Things We need
4.
Blue the light that shines on me Watching you on the screen Blue your eyes and blue the scenes Replay, rewind, recurring dream Blue the nights I sit at home Scanning, surfing all alone Blue the color of the bruise Thinking of my time with you Blue the sky of the winter's day The weather is unpredictable but you're always the same I've been outside and I know it's true No one else, only you You'll come in to my room tonight And if it's just a repeat, well that's alright You're the light that shines on me Our love as real as love can be
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[instrumental]
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Scientists say that solid things are mostly empty space Tiny motes vibrating Distant and held in place They don't really know how it works They've watched things break apart Fundamental forces, strange quarks Fuse or remain inert Isn't that something Something like love You and me, we have our chemistry Passion's fiery heat Friction and chemicals The physics of purest need I don't really care why it works Or what the future can bring Get undressed, play your part With you I feel something Isn't that something Something like love? When I press my body to yours Tell me that you want me Tell me to kiss you Tell me you trust me Don't we have something Something like love?
7.
Overnight the world went fake Everything has been replaced With pale imitations Gray reflections The food has no taste Surrounded by automatons Programmed not to see what's going on Cheap props and flimsy sets A tired plot and bad effects It never rains anymore Not like it did when you were here The wind is tame and bored The gray skies never clear I go to sleep and I wake up Nothing's changed Everything is still the same Still the same Broken rain Another copy of the day Standing in the broken rain I know it wasn't always like this I remember how we used to kiss Living in an infinite loop All the drugs can't hide the truth Love made it real Your love made it real It never rains anymore Not like it did when you were here The wind is tame and bored And the gray skies never clear It never rains anymore Not like it did when you were here The wind is tame and bored And the storm never appears I go to sleep and I wake up Nothing's changed Everything is still the same Still the same Broken rain
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Two Minutes 02:20
In my dresser a pile of snapshots Don't look too closely They faked them all Climbed from the wreckage No hero's journey I wore a new name Nobody noticed Live long enough and all your cells get replaced Doesn't that make you Somebody new? Looking for answers Answers to questions Questions of living Loving and dying If I could show you All of what I've seen You would wonder At it all All of those memories I bequeath thee Hold them closely Take them all Burn so brightly But not to last I see the end now It's coming fast Just a few minutes Is all that's left me I want more time I want more
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Walked into the room Can't remember why Something to tell you Must have slipped my mind Everything we feel The world that we perceive All only as real As our memories Electricity in meat Magnetism on rust Pigments and papers Crumbling to dust So the past is slowly changing The details become blurred Is that really how it happened? I can't be sure

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"Bryan Ferry in Blade Runner" - a cinematic, stark, minimal, and restrained alternative record. Influenced by Scott Walker, David Sylvian, Bryan Ferry. Non-traditional acoustic instruments, electric piano, and found percussion. Unique soundscapes and quiet, deep vocals.

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released March 1, 2010

Written, performed, and recorded by Anu
Shot on location in San Francisco, February 2010

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Anu San Francisco, California

Anu has been creating music for more than three decades.

He studied electronic music at Dartmouth College, with Jon Appleton and Christian Wolff.

He is a pioneer in the Internet music industry, and one of the creators of the Rhapsody Music Service.

He created and taught "A History of 20th Century Music" at Duke University's Talent Identification Program.

Anu currently lives in San Francisco.
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