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Observer

from Observer by Robots from the Future

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Observer is ostensibly about space travel, but also about the distance between people and the isolation we often endure. The actual distance (7 billion light years) is not realistic. If there is life beyond Earth, it has to be closer than that. But it was used as a hyperbolic expression of loneliness and simply because it fit. This was the first song of the album that came to proto-fruition. It also had the best name, so it became the title track.

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The distance of seven billion
light years to the nearest person.

How long, how far
from where you are?
Be my observer.

Seven billion people here
and further from each one it appears.

Come to me I’ll
come to you.
We’ll be observers.

How long, how far
to where you are?
Be my observer.

Someday it will be silly
to wonder if we are alone.
Someday it will be fitting
to watch the stars,
to know there are
eyes looking
back back back.

(Repeat)

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from Observer, released July 3, 2011

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Robots from the Future Minneapolis, Minnesota

Robots from the Future have traveled back to the distant present with a simple mission: to enlighten your ears and enrich your neurons. They have disguised their cold metal hearts with the inferior flesh of two humanoids, Keith Lodermeier and Reynold Kissling, who will blast sine waves at your sensory receptors, transforming the vibrations into electrical signals for processing in your cortex ... more

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