At the Mountains of Madness

from Lost in Line by Mutiny in Jonestown

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Inspired by the HP Lovecraft story of the same name

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Yesterday a tropic wind laughed at me and said, I been
down south and someone waits for you, fatal vision rendezvous
10 horizons later now make our snow camp anyhow
words of warning long forgot scientific juggernaut
Watch me pale Antarctic eyes searching your Antarctic ice
distant mountains in the sky seem enchanted cities to my eyes

90 miles Southward
we sent a separate group
investigate an ancient place
Stop at a remote waste
by peaks of crystal fire
mountains of madness

So they tunneled downward
and found beneath the ice
snow protected caverns
Home of long dead creatures
the fabled elder-race
scientific treasure

Radio reports received the story told
of the specimens they found their 1st dissection notes
cast the evolution theories of the day in disarray

Made our plans to join their group with a haste unparalleled but an Arctic storm arose : radio silence held
We waited through the day until the sky began to clear
Flew above their camp but saw no movement down below what we saw when we arrived.. .a cruel crushing blow
Our expedition brothers left in pieces on the snow

The scene of death around could hardly be explained but even worse our fruitless search no specimens remained
We all drew lots the losers left to search by aero plane
So I flew the barren windswept and dead Antarctic waste into darkly cursed mountains to a truly cursed place
the ruins of an alien city crumbled and misplaced
This land of frozen waste supporting life seemed fantasy but wondering those ruins left me no course but belief

On broken walls their story told
and chronicled a race too old
to measure by the modern day
but I’ll describe them anyway...

The very first society
was started not by human beings
but with this great artistic race
of aliens from deepest space
They came before the final freeze
Antarctica their colony
They built a world of colour great
but then began the last ice age
As colder still the earth became
They built an undersea somain
Atlanteans the legend said
It seems Atlantis is not dead!

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from Lost in Line, released December 12, 1990

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Mutiny in Jonestown Washington

Influenced by classic 70's progressive rock bands like King Crimson, Van Der Graaf Generator & Genesis - along with late 60's psychedelia from The Beatles, Procol Harum & Pink Floyd (with a little 70's Black Sabbath thrown in for good measure), Mutiny in Jonestown has always sought to take these influences and synthesize them into something new.

The band has released 42 albums since 1987.
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