Artwork for Galactic Curiosities — Riva GlowTrack 04

Riva Glow · VIRTUAL ARTIST

The Backwards Town

Galactic Curiosities · 3:32 · Pop

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The cabinet of stories that spill over.

Galactic Curiosities opens the drawers of Riva Glow’s imaginary shop. Hologram Hearts, The Dream Merchant’s Shop, and The Shadow Puppeteer give faces to objects, trades, and desires that escape everyday life. The word galactic signals boundless curiosity here rather than a scientific journey.

The thirteen tracks offer a gallery of characters, from the collector to secret societies. In the label’s story, Riva offers them a light so that their strangeness can be considered with care. Every listener remains free to make a different story of them.

The Dream Merchant’s Shop offers a doorway; Hologram Hearts opens the complete journey.

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Original lyrics

Text supplied in the project files. The original language is preserved.

Welcome to the place where clocks tick left
Where normal is what we've bereft

Houses built with roofs for floors
Windows where there should be doors
People walk upon their hands
Following the mayor's demands
Breakfast served at quarter past never
In this backwards town forever

Everything's the wrong way round
Up is down and lost is found
In this topsy-turvy ground

In the backwards town where we belong
Right is wrong and short is long
Cats bark and the dogs all purr
Everything's as it never were
Dancing to our backwards song

Library books read themselves
While the readers sit on shelves
Mirrors show your future face
Time runs backwards in this place

Would you like to stay and play
Where tomorrow's yesterday?
Where the sun sets in the east
And we're all invited to the feast?

In the backwards town where we belong
Every verse becomes our song
Come and join our strange parade
In the backwards world we've made

Step right up, don't be afraid
"In our backwards masquerade"
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