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Electricity Of An Electric City's Eclectic Cistern

from Dead Bastard Sun by Nuclear Spaceship

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Clouds, fog, blue in hue, and light as rain
tired, hungry, shuffling to the rhythms
of the sounds of a day in an electric city

Black water, cold fire, and stagnant winds
lights, gracing metal landscapes to the sky
alive with a flowing electricity

No water cleanses, no water sustains
never to give life, never to remain
and held at the center, a shapeless void
with traces of life, long since destroyed

Can't deny the progress that the scientific minds bestow upon our world
beneath the hollow chambers filling up with ashes, scattered to the breeze
we see the cistern

Thunder, striking, light up the night and show the path
leading east and west, spiral out of the city
and a venture moving all across the viscous meadows

Meanwhile, Earth is alight and their eyes grow dim
South, far south, somewhere the Earth is cracking
alive, it cries out for mercy

Thrown into a circle, a spiral architecture
people sliding downwards, beginning the cycle
a ceremony darkly lit for following their base instincts
and all our mistakes

Water swirls around them, lost beneath the surface
rust away the metals, perpetuate the cycle
reflected in the water's light, a glimmer of the source of life
and it shines through the dawn

Elder system becoming charged at the origin, conducting up through the water and into their heads
Eats at their insides, destroying hope for the masses, erecting sites in their memory to honor their dead
Every spire subverting mass recognition, erodes and drips down the surface where citizens gaze
Electing spirits, viewing birth in its true light, expecting someone to rise up and shine through the haze

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from Dead Bastard Sun, released November 13, 2014

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Nuclear Spaceship Maine, Maine

Fritz Derblansky: Acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, banjo, sitar, shamisen, sax, trumpet

Josh Dominguez: Vocals, lyrics

Ringo Raskolnikov: Electric & acoustic bass, cello, violin, vocals, flute, tin whistle

Lucy LaFramp: acoustic & electric piano, organ, synthesizer, clavinet, accordion, vibraphone, melodica, kalimba

Charlie Barnaby: drums,percussion, harmonica, backup vocals
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