Name: Replicant
Duration: P00H03M03S
Description: Before writing the lyrics to this song, I had watched Blade Runner for the first time and continued to think about it for long afterward. Replicant has the mood of the film thanks to Reynold on the Mellotron organ, while the drums lead up to an evaporating climax a la Roy Batty's death. But the lyrics are from the perspective of someone who discovers their own shortened mortality, i.e., Deckard.

Replicant

from Observer by Robots from the Future

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Before writing the lyrics to this song, I had watched Blade Runner for the first time and continued to think about it for long afterward. Replicant has the mood of the film thanks to Reynold on the Mellotron organ, while the drums lead up to an evaporating climax a la Roy Batty's death. But the lyrics are from the perspective of someone who discovers their own shortened mortality, i.e., Deckard.

lyrics

I was being followed
but thought him far behind.
Now I see how close he is.
Now there is an end in sight.

I used to be the hunter,
but now I am haunted.
The fear I've caused in others
now replicates inside.

For the first time
I've made sense of dreams.
Though I am disembodied,
I have found my meaning.

I was being hunted
but thought him far behind.
Now I see him standing here.
Now I see the end is clear.

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from Observer, track 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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