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Escalator Concept

by The Bumper Harris Band

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Start at the bottom the sick and forgotten, the thick and the rotten are sticky and sodden with memories they've trodden on, move along, moving on, put something soothing on, daylight has nearly gone. Struggle to breath when you're one with the squeeze and you can't even beg or get down on your knees cos you're part of the motion, the flesh and blood ocean, will carry you on to a far away notion And all the while we are watching every step we make you take, and all the while you are watching us watching you. The chit and the chatter. The spit and the spatter. The pit and the patter. The tip and the tatters. The grip and the grabbers. The snakes and the ladders. The nothing that matters, the nothing that matters that matters that matters.
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All things love and all things lose. All things live and all things move. All things shine a million hues. For all time, all things move. All things, moving, ain't that soothing? Nothing ever really stopping, only ever, transforming, reforming for you. All things love and all things lose. All things live and all things move. All things shine a million hues. For all time, all things move. All things moving. Ain't that amusing? We are all just out there spinning, we are falling, just beginning and we are spirals. Once you get on you can never get off stop watch how it's done when you reach the top step up and away we go out log luck on the merry go, no way round. In circles, shirk all responsibility, malaise tranquility, ride infinity, arise this trinity of apathy, entropy, psychopathic ecstasy, systematic clarity ain't looking very clear to me. Dear me, TBC, dear me, TBC.
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For Sale 04:29
There is a price for each step you take, You're not travelling forwards, getting farther away. There is a price for every mistake, Every little thing you do someone's on the make. Consume, resume, presume everything here's for sale, cos it is, yes it is. Consume, presume the tune that you dance to's betrayal, it's a swim, yes it is. This is the face you can see every day, always promising riches are coming your way. Your life can be stronger and nicer and better and darker and deader, red letter forever...
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We invite you to think laterally. We invite you to take a side step with me. Come and join us on the count of one two, freedom is factory famed, it's available 24/7. Don't be so protective of your perspective, it can sneak up behind you from inside you and find you. Don't be so insistent with your existence. No need to be paranoid, give yourself up to the void. La la la la. Despite all your better judgements, the scales are perfectly poised. In spite of your fixed internment, you still follow the noises. Follow the noises. Don't be so protective of your perspective, it can sneak up behind you from inside you and find you. Don't be so insistent with your existence. No need to be paranoid, give yourself up to the void. No need to be paranoid, give yourself up to the void.
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Stand Still 04:27
Stand still, stand clear, stand steady, Stay between the lines dear, Then you will survive here. We will, be near, be ready, when you want to go dear, you will not be... Leave whenever you feel (we know you don't really want to) Leave, together, for real (there's nothing for you to hold on to) Leave, forever, bereaved. (we don't recommend what's out there) Don't leave... Stand still, stand clear, stand steady, Stand up for yourself dear, There is no one else here. A chill of fear already, running down your spine dear, you will not be... Leave whenever you feel (You know that it is such a long way down Leave, together, for real (We can't promise what you will find there) Leave, forever, bereaved. (Let the escalator take you) Don't leave...
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When I Awoke 04:17
When I awoke, I was in motion. Carried away on a flesh and blood ocean. Then someone spoke and said to stand clear. I was alone when the stairway appeared. Send me to the heavens won't you raise me to the sound of music. When I close my eyes, I can still see them. The spiralling ghosts in the lifetime museum. To no-one's surprise, the ride's never-ending. We all hear the screams of those sick of pretending. Send me to the heavens won't you raise me to the sound of music.
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We are all knees and elbows, splitting my rib cage tickles, Pushing my spine in time too, the drops of something dark trickles. We are a moving feast of, moving parts, altered beasts we, start as ghosts at the ground floor, turn back to chevrons once more. Gathering forms at great height, gathering storms at first light. Too many notes in discord, wonder what it's all been for? I see it in your lies, I read it in your eyes. Please get out my way. Please get out my day.
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Though we're stuck here forever, we were put here together, wind and turn escalator, we're greater, we'll take you apart. Step by step, safety net, are we finished yet? Have you found the winners yet? Time to climb, up the line, are you happy yet? Would you count this as success? Turn around, face the ground, can you run much faster than the flow thats washing past you? Standing still never will get you anywhere, you're still climbing up that stair, your still climbing up that stair, you're not getting anywhere. Though we're stuck here forever, we were put here together, wind and turn escalator, we're greater, we'll take you apart. Floor by floor, always one more, hold on to my hand, no one really understands. Up we go, we'll never know, if we'll reach the top, if this ride will ever stop. Could be hell, if so, oh well, if you're here with then heavens all that I can see. Standing still never will get you anywhere, we're still climbing up that stair, we're still climbing up that stair, we are getting everywhere.

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Escalator Concept is a mixed genre album of progressive rock and electronic music inspired by the art works of Robert Pointon that feature escalators in warped context. Escalator Concept examines the relationship between the motion of travel through space, time and fate via the metaphor of escalators in the busy modern world.

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released August 30, 2019

The Bumper Harris Band would like to thank Robert and Karen Pointon for permission to use the Escalator painting images.

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The Bumper Harris Band Stoke On Trent, UK

The Bumper Harris Band is a mixed genre progressive concept driven band of wooden legged escalator showmen from Staffordshire. We hope you enjoy the sounds and keep between the yellow lines. Happy travels!

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