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The Boiler Snipes

from The Gears of Change by Escape the Clouds

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A tribute to the hard-working, indispensable men and women who keep the machines running from behind the scenes, doing thankless jobs while someone else gets the glory.

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Verse 1
Don't confuse us for no sailors,
We don't dress in pretty whites.
We're engineers through and through
And we don't need no damn sunlight

The props keep spinnin' all day long
Thanks to what we do down below.
There's no room for poster boys
Down here in this fiery hole.

Chorus
We shovel coal all day here in the belly of this flying man o' war.
The Captain doesn't know our names, but without us he won't be getting far.
If the fires ain't fed and the pressure don't rise the cannons ain't worth a horse's ass.
All that glory off the bow rides on the backs of boiler snipes, third class!

Verse 2
We love these boilers like a mother
Loves her misbehaving lad.
Don't trust 'em when they're running right
And smack 'em if they're acting bad.
We fly the world end to end
But our only view is fire and steel.
We keep the steam building up
So we don't scratch our precious keel.

Chorus

Verse 3
We're not rats in a cellar
Despite what the Captain believes.
If he doesn't think to treat us right,
We've got some tricks up our sleeves.
Cut our food, we'll chop the speed.
Cut our leave, we'll foul the screws
Cut our pay, we'll snuff the boilers.
It's a battle he's sure to lose.

Chorus x 2

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from The Gears of Change, released August 29, 2018
Written and performed by Mark Rossmore
Mastering by Martin Irigoyen

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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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