Lyrics and meanings.

With the release due out any moment, and the HolyRoar inlay not having a jot of lyrical content I figured it'd make sense to put them up here, along with a few words about them.

High Function
There's no way I'm facing it through clear eyes today, and no way i can deal with these pricks today - load it up, blaze it up, let the good times roll - my morning just turned a corner, commutes immersed in my thoughts and sick reality staved off an extra few hours. "Why don't you blaze it up there brother" "I've never been this thirsty in my entire life" - inner dialogue morning entertainment.
EXP:I'm sure Society was a nice concept at some point, but nowadays it's mostly a sickening mass of idiots who i mainly try and avoid. Nice and upbeat to get us rolling...!

Dancing Blind
I'm afraid it's a necessary evil to snap us out of the zombie-walk, the sniffing-salts of consciousness so to speak. And it's what happens next that'll really get you, cos you'll see no really gives a fuck what's actually going on, as long as they slip the leash on soft and gentle everything will be a-ok.
Comfort-zones must be left behind, cos it's only when you've done this you can smuggly sit there and say We're Through The Looking-glass Now..the twig on the shoulders of the mighty river, it's all we've been and all we ever will be so just shut up and get back in line.
EXP:It may be true that "none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free" but there's also something to be said for the supposedly enlightened..

..but I'm not sure about Singularity
Living on the edge of the craziest of times, bring on the nanotech..and bring on my three sea-shells, hover-boots and time machine - the future is a joke? but still no to ID chips - at least hypocrasy can still raise smiles, you roll with change or get left behind. And hey, life-extensions about to be the New Cool, just keep eyes on the A-listers for the clues - you not seen 80's sci-fi classic Inner Space? This is gonna be rad.
EXP:OK, so this is the big one, insane technologies that are *supposedly* due to come crashing around our lives in the next 10-20 years! "The future is a joke" is a reference to a song by old UK hardcore, Imbalance, where the singer opined his cynicism about the lack of the amazing futuristic lives we were all promised by Media as children, be it The Jetsons or Tomorrows World..the point i'm reaching for here is the impatience of us in assuming it'd be Our adult lives that'll be graced with these advances.
Next we have to deal with the inherent trade-off's that come hand-in-hand with such great leaps forward in our lives, and essentially at some point things such as the NOID campaigns may well find themselves as out-dated as the privacy laws our governments continualy circumvent at our expense. The hypocrasy part was self-reference to when I was thinking about possible trade-off's, my own stance on the ID Chip issue and the sudden realising that the beliefs would very soon be something of a joke.
Didn't really go into it cos figured the lyrics were already getting bogged down with ideas, but was then wanting to touch on the concept that if future technologies are things we wouldn't naturally know to expect (eg. life extension) then the trade-off's we'll thus be expected to accept will also be a host of things we're utterly unprepared for, which is super-fucking interesting to me! I'm an adaptable sort, but society in general ain't - how long did it take for people to get sold on Conservationism? Would've taken even longer if they still used such hippy-tainted vocab!

The Devil Drives
Thank fuck it's that time, at the end of another long night and it looks like I'm living off tips again..but I'll get by, just like I always do. Tonight I reached new lows and I goddamn feel like death - taped up hands with the back-room boys! It's fat-lip smiles tonight, and bloodied hand-shakes, but those fat-lip nights and glass-kissed hands, there'll be some explaining to do at the office tomorrow - living like scenes from Fight Club! Fuck just "both ends" lets burn the bastard whole..no rest for the wicked, I'll serve my time.
EXP:This was written whilst I was juggling an office and a bar job, life was hard but y'know, reap what you sow n that so can't really complain.

-steve