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Pendulum

Prelude

Release date: 24th July 2005

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'Prelude' by Pendulum is a 2005 Dance track on the album 'Hold Your Colour'. The lyrics imagine being stranded, marooned on a tiny island amid endless sea, with an outlook fixed on stars and space. There is a sense of confinement and helplessness, cut through by the promise of a turning point, captured in the line “But Tonight”.

"Prelude" is a track by Pendulum, from the album Hold Your Colour, released 24th July 2005. The track is 0:52 long. It's filed under Dance. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Pendulum.

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Pendulum

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Lyrics

Prelude

Somwhere out there in the vast nothingness of space.
Somewhere faraway in space and time.
Staring upward at the gleaming stars in the obsidan sky.
We're marooned on a small island.
In an Endless sea.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand.
Unable to escape.
But Tonight.
On this small planet, on earth.
We're going to rock civilization

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25th July 2005
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  1. 1Prelude
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    5:45
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    6:22
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