The Speech
from You Never Know What Might Come Next (Limited Edition) by Soft Riot
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Limited Edition Extended Compact Disc
Compact Disc (CD) + Digital AlbumThis special version of the album "You Never Know What Might Come Next"comes with four extra tracks that aren't available on the standard digital and vinyl LP editions of the album. In the product photos there is a cover image of the limited edition CD (in CMYK colour) and the standard edition LP (in black and silver ink). This version comes with the following:
• 12 page booklet with lyrics, information and sketches.
• Environmentally friendly "Digifile" packaging (no plastic)
Includes unlimited streaming of You Never Know What Might Come Next (Limited Edition) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.Sold Out
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lyrics
Down at the waterfront at a palace made of jewels
A large troupe drop the red banners for the evening news
Large monitors glow blue deep inside a hidden room
An eagle eye to every corner in the vast and stately view
Abstract words over discreet headsets as they set up the cues
Elsewhere inane headlines divert; infect like a flu
Architects of shrewd moves to engineer a truth
But hush hush as the lights go up and a man approaches the booth
All rise, for he will speak tonight to you
One last check over his veneer to make sure he’s good to go
Lifting a panel on his back the green lights are a bright glow
Stoic men dressed in black reporting on the hour
A carefully crafted string of clips sent to the relay tower
Outside the palace lights a crowd gathers on the street
Voices barking in the heat of night calling him a cheat
Frantic commands in the hidden room to cut to another scene:
A woman blank eyed rambling on about microwave cuisine
All rise, for he will speak tonight to you
All rise, for he will speak tonight to you
A large troupe drop the red banners for the evening news
Large monitors glow blue deep inside a hidden room
An eagle eye to every corner in the vast and stately view
Abstract words over discreet headsets as they set up the cues
Elsewhere inane headlines divert; infect like a flu
Architects of shrewd moves to engineer a truth
But hush hush as the lights go up and a man approaches the booth
All rise, for he will speak tonight to you
One last check over his veneer to make sure he’s good to go
Lifting a panel on his back the green lights are a bright glow
Stoic men dressed in black reporting on the hour
A carefully crafted string of clips sent to the relay tower
Outside the palace lights a crowd gathers on the street
Voices barking in the heat of night calling him a cheat
Frantic commands in the hidden room to cut to another scene:
A woman blank eyed rambling on about microwave cuisine
All rise, for he will speak tonight to you
All rise, for he will speak tonight to you
credits
from You Never Know What Might Come Next (Limited Edition),
released March 31, 2015
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Soft Riot Glasgow, UK
Soft Riot is JJD, a Canadian-British synth artist based in Glasgow UK. Latest stuff happening through linktr.ee/softriot/
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