| THE TALE OF THE
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| GIANT STONE EATER
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| COMMENTATOR: Hear this the tale of the giant stone eater
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| GIRL: Gather round boys and girls and listen
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| MAN: To the tale of the giant stone eater
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| and how the earth was ravaged
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| during the years of the great stone shortage…
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| COMMENTATOR: Raised the price of diesel oil
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| and yellow painted signs zigzagged
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| black lines of warning…
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| GIRL & MAN: Another tree dies of shame…
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| MAN: Sudden-savage-shining-solid-soiled-solid-sanded
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| Steel-shuddering-shattering-shovelling until the
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| Sabre toothed rooter roots the earth
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| The eater eats his fill and is not satisfied and
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| Roars and reves his mathematical rage
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| on the footprints of Vikings
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| trapped on a sonic tape recorder
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| ten million years old, ten million years old, ten million years old.
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| GIRL: A broken antler points the way to the still pond
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| where reflections of bonnie Prince Charlie lies wounded in the
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| shallow water sun shining on chrome surfaces
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| protecting the tales of a grandfather —
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| march on!
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| GIRL & MAN: Journeys unstarted measure space for future parking lots
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| Journeys unstarted measure space
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| Journeys unstarted measure space for the future
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| COMMENTATOR: And — underneath a million tons of cold lava
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| a brontasaurus lies wrong way up.
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| GIRL: Right way straight ahead
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| MAN: Hamburgers at the barn dance tonight!
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| COMMENTATOR: Average speed 100 mph
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| sixteen lane highways cross the meadows
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| GIRL: Plastic space agents selling candy-floss contracts
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| ALL TOGETHER: Bells ringing «ring ring"split, grind and grovel
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| Lost iron relics ringing on the cold stone
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| GIRL: A spated river flows up hill
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| directions change in the New Age rain on Tuesdays…
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| COMMENTATOR: Thursdays guaranteed dry…
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| Guaranteed dry while handmade golf courses
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| weary of trickery and fraud
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| Grey slates remain grey slates —
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| floods as required life silently reforms in the pools of stagnation.
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| Each layer a civilisation — buy your own layer
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| The eater eats again retches roars and vomits
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| his computerised future is bright with security
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| Headshrinkers analyse the unknown…
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| Meanwhile another tree dies of shame
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| ALL TOGETHER: And another tree dies of shame… |
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