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Blink / It Takes Time

by Dens & Signals x Riz Maslen

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We made this track for our "Deep Time Silent Disco" event, which took place in the City of London, on 15 October 2022.

It was made in collaboration with Riz Maslen, who composed and recorded the track.

We're currently making more things happen around Deep TIme, under the working title 'May Wonders Never Cease'. Please check out our website for more at www.densandsignals.co.uk

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Blink/It Takes Time


Don’t Blink.

This is us standing with our feet in the earth.

Don’t Blink.

In the wet earth and feeling the rain in our hair.

Don’t Blink.

Right now wild stories circulate.

Don’t blink.

Things drift apart get out of hand.

Don’t blink.

Slabs of stone lock the earth away.

Don’t blink.

Hidden deep beneath like the London rivers.

Don’t blink.

The city dead.

Don’t blink.

The ash from all the fires it took to make this place.

Our instincts tell us dig.

We scrape our feet but this pavement doesn’t give.

Don’t blink.

Lays on thick and keeps us sanitised.

Don’t blink.

Won’t admit to mud or sea or trees.

Don’t blink.

It doesn’t speak of the power inside.

Don’t blink.

All of those lives, instead it lies.

Don’t blink.

Tries to tell us this is how things are.

Don’t blink.

This is nature now.

Don’t blink.

This is nature now.

Don’t blink.

This is nature now.

Don’t blink.

Don’t blink.

This is us imagining our feet in the earth.

Don’t blink.

And dreaming of the rain in our hair.

Don’t blink.

We don’t let ourselves sink too deep.

Deep down.

Don’t blink.

Labourers, architects, carters and thieves.

Don’t blink.

Our ancestors tell us dig!

Don’t blink.

We’re scraping back the time, layers in the sand.

Don’t blink.

Traces of the time, where our feet ran.

Dig deep while you can. x 4

We blink. x 8

In billowing smoke.

Wardens shout.

Bombs fall.

The dome holds out.

We blink.

Full of anger, hope and doubt.

We blink.

A city forms, then peters out.

We blink.

Smoke delay.

Smoke delay.

We blink.

Smoke delay.

Sweeps the world away.

Oceans, Limestone, granite, and dust.

We blink.

Unbroken lines, the light in your eyes.

We blink.

Unbroken lines, the light in your eyes.

Where the universe resides.

Unbroken lines, the light in your eyes

Where the universe resides.

The light in your eyes.

credits

released November 11, 2022
Produced by Dens & Signals.
Composed and recorded by Riz Maslen.
Lyrics by Ben Pacey.
Mastered by Darren Morris.

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