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Monolith Monorail

from A Duel At Ten Paces by Nuclear Spaceship

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The monolith rolls on, spitting ashes to the sky
crashing wheels and cogs in cogs
sees its neighbor, both continue
to fulfill their preset designs

Metal clinking, the beast lumbers on
minuets play and each one sounds the same
and tracing the paths
spelling out his name

There aren't any trade winds, and there's no electric
A silent German turns his head
admires three or four Polish women
and closes his eyes again

Each one sleeps, but not one dreams
as they silently crush all in their way
knowing the vessel will reach its destination
and buying each of them just one more day for sacrifice
one more day for penitence
Look out the window to the world's end
one more phony repentance
one more meaningless life
follow the map to the world's end

Farther out the smoke's diluted
at the junction north of Greece
where rails diverge and meet by chance
and every map is creased

Politely they flip and pull the switches
losing memory of the place
rotate slightly the criss-crossed lines
each one a smile on the Devil's face

Continue East, no stopping at all
we'll circle around again
Until the ground disappears beneath us
and the horns begin

Before the dawn, the stench is foul
two hundred years of decay
tracing infinity in finite space
and serving only to delay the afterlife
and lay the land to waste
light a perfect likeness of the death seed
we need more lines that divide, and acidic taste
to trade in a pale horse for an iron steed

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from A Duel At Ten Paces, released May 12, 2015

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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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