Square - The World Is Square

from Anthems From The Alley, Volume 2 by Vancouver Co-op Radio

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"Prog punk with a classical touch"
Square is a modern prog-rock band based in Vancouver that epitomizes the ethos of the Canadian middle-aged experience. Multicultural, overeducated, and ironically trying to justify art-making in our current (dis)information age, Square asks a unique musical question: what happens when you know all the rules, and where all the roads in life lead, and somehow still get lost?

Square began in 2017, after three well-established composers in the Canadian contemporary music scene, James Maxwell, Edward Top, and Alfredo Santa Ana, imagined a new creative output for their work. Together with Vancouver's indie-music scene legend Nathan Dillon, the songs they have created are powerful, complex, and uniquely wrought out, resulting not as an experiment of their combined musical lives but as a staunch statement of musical mastery

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Same hypotheses everywhere:
The world is flat and square
Walk off the edge
Through space and time to reappear (on the other side).
Faith in ‘Square Earth’
Made me a better person
While everything else was chaos
My world became secure

The world is square (The world is square)
The world is square

The world is my castle
Surrounded on four sides
By a square ocean
Protected by a moat of ice
It doesn’t speed through space
But rooted somehow,
Still, calm, glorious
Epicenter of the universe.

The world is square (The world is square)
The world is square

I see four spirits
Standing at the four corners of the earth
Holding back the four winds
To prevent any wind from blowing
On the land
Or on the sea
Or on any tree.
Into the wilderness
Up a high mountain
The third spirit leads the way
Then lightning strikes
The fourth spirit approaches
I see his face
Within it is the form
OF FOUR LIVING CREATURES!

The moon is a projection
A hologram
A doctored NASA photo
Creating a false perception
Thousands of years
Of fake science
Everything you’ve ever known Is a deception

The world is square (The world is square)
The world is square (The world is square)
The world is square (The world is square)
The world is square

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from Anthems From The Alley, Volume 2, released November 5, 2021

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