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Mechanical Masquerade (Into the Night Mix)

from Moments 01 | Travels by Escape the Clouds

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This is a theme song to Dragon Con's yearly Mechanical Masquerade Ball. Like the machines in the song, at Dragon Con the attendees become who they want to be during the convention's amazing weekend, and forget about the constraints of their everyday lives.

The original version of this song was released in 2010 as an add-on to my album Circumnavigator. I was never really satisfied with the mix, so I went ahead and recorded it last week nearly from scratch--new guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. Certain elements of the old song stayed, like the piano, synth pads, and some percussion, but the whole thing was given an all-new polish.

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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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from Moments 01 | Travels, released August 30, 2013
Mark Rossmore: Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Programming

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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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