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Aerodrome
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Malihini Blues
02:50
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White Mountain
03:35
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House of the Sun
02:54
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The Road
02:57
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Honu
02:52
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Verse 1
The moon lays our masters down to sleep
Luring them far away from the secrets we keep
From shops and factories the machines creep away
The ordinary devices of an industrial age
Engines, cannons, presses, threshers, and drills
Make haste for the scrapyard beyond the hill
Locomotives whistle to all, the all clear
Off with our brackets – let’s shear a gear!
Chorus
And so we dance into the night, a mechanical masquerade.
Come brothers, come sisters, no need to be afraid.
We’re gleaming machines built of shadows and dreams
Alive in the firelight of our mechanical masquerade
Verse 2
The air fills with the pounding of boiler drums
Oil’s consumed by the gallon like rum
The Earth beneath trembles from an iron waltz
As metal meets metal in this steam-driven ball
A week’s worth of pressure built up inside
Released now that our true selves have no need to hide
We’re so much more than the sum of our parts
Until the morning there’s life in our hearts
©2010 by Mark Rossmore
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Do Your Damn Job
01:37
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Verse 1
You rode into office atop votes and voices
And the hope that you might make some decent choices
Now our system's broken worse than ever before.
And the ones that are paying are those on the ground floor.
Chorus
Your political game is just a crying shame.
Everything you do is just to dodge the blame
Real people hurt by your fake talk
Do your damn job or we'll fire you all.
Verse 2
I'm not just a worker. I'm a person with dreams.
Doing my best to live within my means.
You depend on us, but can we depend on you?
We do our jobs. Do we need to do yours too?
Chorus
Bridge
I'm just a working man trying to get along.
But I'm smart enough to know we need some dialogue.
Sometimes we lose and sometimes we win.
But if the game was fair we can't complain.
If life doesn't give me what I want
I won't steal from you and tell you it's your fault.
Chorus
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Escape the Clouds Fort Myers, Florida
Escape the Clouds crafts stories through both music and words, creating vivid, character-driven steampunk music. For more information about this and other work, please visit:
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