Shredded Panorama Lyrics

He nodded

This is why you guys had to come here

To watch some fragments of the tapes

We clipped them

We were going to see one hundred and seventy-four minutes

Of the material that had been shredded

That's what we enhanced

Taped together to form a panorama

The muddy tape had weighed one hundred and thirty-five pounds

It's shot from inside the machine

Of course

When viewed from inside the machine

The yellow markers lose resolution

Of the ninety-five dots on the screen

Sixty were green the rest were red

And strips of green-and-red neon lights

Flashed in a tight grid sodden with water

She examined the murky images

And sighed as she picked up one of the metal strips

Out of a lever on a geared mechanism made up of little dots

The resolution was too poor

To give us a coherent swirl

Of ten thousand pixels

She watched the knots of dark curly hair

Attached to the large wheel

That carried the strip of metal

Look this one has a whole string of markings

But the one that was on the bottom

Only has a thin film of loose dust on it

When we blow up the images on the tape

They get blurry

Now those things have vanished into the oily water