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The Lidless Room

by Crescent Moon

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1.
Acceptatio 02:19
Instrumental
2.
G.A.B.O.S 03:15
Work - Sleep - Obey Me Game ain’t based on Sympathy I must be dreaming – Stand before this gate Although the door is open - I’m ordered here to wait Looking for the law - Longing to be free But this gatekeeper just looks at me and says: The game ain’t based on sympathy Work - Sleep - Obey Me Game ain’t based on Sympathy Gave me a chair and I’m wondering how I got here I wear something on my sleeve – a pair of glasses I believe Unpragmatic laws are the worst of tyranny I had a vision of a ghost in a machine who said to me Work - Sleep - Obey Me Game ain’t based on Sympathy Wish I had a book – I used to read a lot Who needs a library with everywhere screens on an eyeshot? When I signed this vow – a promise to be free But it’s a digital world where you can clearly see Work - Sleep - Wait - See Mate – Buy - Obey - Me Trust – Follow - Like – Me Work - Sleep - Wait - See
3.
I remember a thunderstorm – ghosts lit on the wall Must‘ve been short after my brother was born – I recall We were taken out of bed – put on a table the four No, I don’t think that I ever felt more safe and more secure Well I’m not looking for salvation Not in need of being cured From this binary addiction – how can numbers be obscure? You’re so good at numbers tell me, what’s the last? All hooked up on a machine The world as big as a phone screen It was on a New Year’s Eve – around ’78 Played pure magic on the record player down in the living – sounded great How we should have known by the end of that decade All this would be used to reinvent and re-create? I don’t want to sound downhearted But it slipped right through my hands And It seemed so unimportant then – It took years to understand So you can tell the square root of minus one? All hooked up on a machine The world narrowed to a phone screen
4.
I must be dreaming – good – Finally set free Smart glasses for smart asses – That’s the joke they played on me I volunteered for a test – The future’s looking bright A glimpse of singularity now coming into sight But yesterday I went to bed and woke up with a scream Cause these numeric assignments still where coming in my dreams Reminds me of this movie where a man ripped out his eyes Yeah for seeing all there is you pay a very heavy price
5.
The Bellman 03:05
I met him at first when I was a child Saw him floating through the air – He looked kind of scary then Years passed by and our paths crossed again He said he was my friend now – and all my secrets were safe in his hands He knows when I’m sad or when I’m afraid Who I am and how I feel – all my doubts and my fears I see him in the darkened sky – passing like a cloud All my secrets in his basket – pouring them down like rain
6.
Am I looking troubled? Well, I tell you what’s the deal Are all these things before my eyes virtual or real? No one’s ever wondering why they get their stuff for free Excuse me for being skeptical about handing over keys Sometimes I feel so lonely in this world Sometimes I don’t want to see and misunderstand Living is easy with your eyes closed and your ears shut On this TV nature show I saw aphids got abused The ants seemed to protect them, but just milked their honeydew The aphids do not seem to care and they haven’t got a clue What would happen to their tiny butts, if they ran ever out of juice. Sometimes I feel so lonely in this world Sometimes I don’t want to see and misunderstand Living is easy with your eyes closed and your ears shut
7.
I saw this Movie last night – man living in a golden cage Found out he was nothing but an effigy And the world was his stage So now we’re stuck inside these four walls We’ll never get out again Because the outside is like the inside The net became our biggest fan We’re living in a Lidless Room The age of ignorance is gone Who keyed in all your fucking data on the web? There’s no one here to blame that on In some time the web connection Is injected straight inside your head And everyone’s a freaking genius With all the knowledge of the web We’re living in a Lidless Room The age of ignorance is gone Who shoved that data through the keyhole? There’s no one here to blame that on You know this guy Galileo Found out the earth orbits the sun But in the specter of the universe It is a rather silly run We’re living in a Lidless Room The age of ignorance is gone Who shoved that data through the keyhole?
8.
Obsolete men 05:53
The train rolls into these waste lands by tomorrow What can cure you, sure can kill you cried the man Where silence, our guidance, our hope will be gone And nature forsaken is not on our side Should I smash the looms to pieces like captain Ludd did? Or blow up the dam like the Monkey Wrench Gang? – Oh no. Yes we are all in rat’s alley Where the dead men lost their bones On the horizon the sun sets in a shimmering sky In a world where’s no place for old fashioned and obsolete men Where logic is the enemy and truth is a menace And the dead men lost their bones
9.
They ever see us - Won’t free us, baby the devil and the machine Well they treat us like peanuts the devil and the machine Saw this Hunchback sitting on the park bench Guzzle down his sixpack like there’s no tomorrow Homeless superhero, Trying to borrow Eyes so hollow, laiden with sorrow We know who you are - Give us your mind And we’lI show you what’s in - It’s just a matter of time I wanna draw back my Martens boots Look at the screen and scream I wanna kick the succer square in the eye Beyond the applications and all modifications I see dudes enter offices shoot down some cartoonists We know who you are – The places where you have been Now give a big hand for The Devil and the Machine We know who you are A touchscreen is nothing but a mirror you know We’ll be waiting on the other side Just me and the Machine
10.
In the hypnopomp state between sleeping and waking I find myself back at the old riverbed It’s a regular welcoming dream always swimming or fishing or doing nothing instead Dawn is breaking over glacial remains Where the hillsides rise up in the east. The depths of these waters keeps secrets of soldiers, of knights and of romans on their farthest frontier Hold my knuckles tight now to the handrail I am looking down A girl passes by and sees nothing at all Just having eyes for her phone Two boys on their bikes cycling quitly by Their headphones as big as a house Do I have the guts to get detached now? - No So the dumb, dull ghost in the little black box In the end was the sliest of all Anything you’ve ever told him is recalled by the fox It’s time to pull the plug from the walls Do I have the guts to get detached now? Do I have the guts to get detached now?
11.
Instrumental

about

The concept is about the struggle of a man with the modern communication era and fear of a future where communication is increasingly digital. Where the internet becomes more and more dominant and where there will be less and less privacy.
www.crescentmoononline.com


Read some reviews here:

Review on Progressivelyso (English)
progressivelyso.wordpress.com/2016/04/08/crescent-moon-theyre-not-on-the-dark-side-of-it-or-are-they/

Review on progplanet (English)
www.progplanet.com/component/content/article/12-reviews/cd-reviews/828-the-lidless-room

Review on Prognosis (Espanol)
sinfomusic.net/portal/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1499:crescent-moon-%E2%80%93-the-lidless-room-crescent-moon-2015&Itemid=55

Review on Rockmuzine Europe (English)
rockmuzine.eu/2016/04/10/crescent-moon-the-lidless-room/

Review on Rockmuzine (Netherlands)
rockmuzine.nl/2016/02/10/crescent-moon-the-lidless-room/

Review on Progcritique (France)
progcritique.com/2016/03/crescent-moon-the-lidless-room/

credits

released May 18, 2016

Musicians:
Frank Peters - vocals , guitar, drums, lyrics
Eric Peters - bas, mix and mastering
Tim Peters - piano, keys and flugelhorn
Bas Peters - keys, guitar and trumpet

Guest Musicians:
Chico Dommeck - solo guitar
Thea Leenders - backing vocals
Mirjam van Vuuren - backing vocals

Artwork by Margot Peters - Zonnehert Atelier
www.facebook.com/ZonnehertAtelierPraktijk

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Crescent Moon Babberich, Netherlands

Crescent Moon is an atmospheric rock band from The Netherlands.
We released two albums: The lidless room in 2015 and Dissonance in 2018.

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