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  1. The Death Of Copyright
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Taken from both the Mark Northfield album Alterations and the The Death of Copyright EP. The wordy animation video for this is worth a look!

Written and arranged by Mark (with a sneaky quote from JS Bach in the coda)
Lead vocals by Mark, Ellen Jakubiel and Antony Connor
Piano by Mark Northfield
Programming, guitars and whistling by Andrew Holdsworth
Strings by Charlie Brown (violin), Nick Barr (viola) and Tony Woollard (cello)

Lyrics

I heard a pop song today
It was grimly efficient
It brought me to my knees
In three terrible minutes
I saw my life go by
I saw the crashing of empire
It stole my DNA
Then claimed I had no father

I heard a rock song today
It was VERY IMPORTANT
It took me for a ride
Before I'd even given consent
I saw the whites of my eyes
I saw the heads of the surfers
It made me feel a man
Then inserted inverted commas

And now I'm all alone
And now I'm all alone
And now at last I'm all alone

There's nothing on the radio
The static slips into my heart
I lost what I never had
'Twas all about the taking part
The air fairly hums with dreams
But I don't sing their melodies
I sing what I cannot hear
'Twas all about the part you played
It's all about the way the chorus fades

Aujourd'hui j'ai entendu une tube
Elle était sinistrement efficace
Elle ma fait tomber aux genoux 
Pendant trois minutes terribles
J'ai vu ma vie passer devant moi
J'ai vu la chute de l'empire
Elle m'a vole le ADN
Puis elle a pretendu
Que je n'aie pas de pere

Et maintenant je suis toute seule
Et maintenant je suis toute seule
Et enfin je suis toute seule

Que idioma es
Que idioma es
Que idioma es 

Heute hörte ich ein Rock Song
Es war SEHR WICHTIG
Es brachte mich in Fahrt
Bevor ich Zustimmung gegeben hatte
Ich sah das Weiß meiner Augen
Ich sah die Köpfe der Surfers
Ich fuhlte mich wie ein Mann
Dann setzte es Anführungszeichen ein

Und jetzt bin ich ganz allein
Und jetzt bin ich ganz allein
Und nun shießlich bin ich ganz allein

There's nothing on the radio...

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