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The Last Transmission | Strike First (Black Market Baby)

from Zero Visibility (Experiments With Truth) LP (Full Session) by Four Letter Word

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THE LAST TRANSMISSION

Bacterium in silence
Spread faster than the speed of light
It attacked them on a sub-cell level
Well beneath their sight
It stalked all those that walked
Every living thing fell ill
But no-one realised
It'd be the day the earth stood still

The last transmission that they ever made
Was the image of a human face crying as the music played
As the credits rolled the static interfered
Six billion died with the icons they revered
The last transmission that they ever made
Was the image of a human face crying as the music played
As the credits rolled the static interfered
Six billion died with the icons they revered
The last transmission, the last transmission

No American superhero
Stepped in to save the world
No-one overcame the odds
And went back to get the girl
Humanity wasn't crushed
By empires, wars or tyrants
The global sub-electric hum
Just quaked then fell to silence

The last transmission that they ever made
Was the image of a human face crying as the music played
As the credits rolled the static interfered
Six billion died with the icons they revered
The last transmission that they ever made
Was the image of a human face crying as the music played
As the credits rolled the static interfered
Six billion died with the icons they revered
The last transmission, the last transmission

Microchips and microwaves
Going down in a blaze of DNA's
Megabytes, satellites
Reach new heights, turn out the lights
Acid rain, mutated grain
Technological runaway train
Five year mission, nuclear fission
Darkness fell with the last transmission
Microchips and microwaves
Going down in a blaze of DNA's
Megabytes, satellites
Reach new heights, turn out the lights
Acid rain, mutated grain
Technological runaway train
Five year mission, nuclear fission
Darkness fell with the last transmission
Microchips and microwaves
Going down in a blaze of DNA's
Megabytes, satellites
Reach new heights, turn out the lights
Acid rain, mutated grain
Technological runaway train
Five year mission, nuclear fission
Darkness fell with the last transmission...

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from Zero Visibility (Experiments With Truth) LP (Full Session), released October 19, 1999

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Four Letter Word Cardiff, UK

Punk rock band formed in 1991 in Cardiff, U.K. Released debut EP in 1995, debut album in 1998 on BYO Records. Toured U.S./Canada in 1998. Released second album on BYO in 1999 before Trade Mark issues with the first of many name claimers. FLW fought and won and soldiered on releasing two further albums and a handful of EPs, toured the U.S. again, before in 2011 they called it a day after 20 years. ... more

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