All Systems Failure

from Hearts of the Terminus by Picture One

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All Systems Failure, the third single from Picture One’s upcoming full length Hearts of the Terminus, thematically explores the idea of the failing social systems around us and our roles within them. The song focuses on our inability to fully view the moving parts of current complex structures as we move through them, and our ultimate ability to more clearly view older power structures and their failings.

Musically All Systems Failure strongly recalls the choral and vocal elements of Sisters of Mercy and the dancefloor stylings of EBM groups like Nitzer Ebb and D.A.F.

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Was it ever was?
When it’s what’s felt in absence of it

And is it really gone?
It’s only lost because we longed

And did it ever shine?
Perhaps what’s dulled is just a moment of this time
And in our breath, our lives
We only understand just the pieces of the parts of it

Was it ever calm?
Only for the atonement of it?

And are we ever done?
For only constant actions can rise the heights above

And did it ever shine?
Perhaps what’s dulled is just a moment of this time
And in our breath, our lives
We only understand just the pieces of the parts of it

In the absence of our live, and the blood of our hearts
We are shells
And in born lies have swum
All systems fail

Breakpoints set to zero
And to know what’s left
I only see a mirror

I only see a mirror

I only see a mirror

And did it ever shine?
Perhaps what’s dulled is just a moment of this time
And in our breath, our lives
We only understand just the pieces of the parts of it

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from Hearts of the Terminus, track released January 4, 2022
Written and performed by Thomas Barnwell. Mixing assistance by Ian Deaton. Front cover painting by Jessica Jean Kauzmann. Graphic layout by Todd Briner. Mastered by Jessica Thompson

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