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Hopeless, drugless, penniless
tonight my life will be no more I'll throw myself to
Nothing, willing, forgetting
events of when I served upon a South Pacific
Warship, flagship, my ship
was captured by a German Man-O-War I was sent
Drifting, listing, foundering
completely unaware of my position on the ocean

For days I drifted aimlessly till waking on an island
Though not dry land but hellish blackened mire in all directions
Putrid dead decaying mud amid the deafening silence

How this sea floor landscape of decay had breached the surface
I could but surmise volcanic action had achieved this
Many hours I walked through mud observed by rotting corpses
Undiscovered ocean creatures never seen before by man or fashioned by a Godly hand

Moon ascended from a cloudless sky in bright reflection
Off something in the distance clearly carved, a monolith
Headed West until I finally neared the dripping statue

Fashioned as a fish-like human many centuries past
Heiroglyphs and carvings told a tale of recent worship
Creatures large as whales offering human skulls in tribute
Hunting, gathering sea-men lost in wrecks were prized possessions offered to this God of Dagon

As I watched still dazed and frightened - bas reliefs did tell a story
What had once been men as I am slowly changed
Into beings, faces twisted to a grotesque visage
Seemed they spent life underwater - men no more
Suddenly I heard a churning in the water near me
Polyphemus, vast and loathsome broke into view
Bowing to the monolithic statue worshipped it as God
Then it turned and saw me watching - madness came to me, I ran

Next thing I awoke alone in San Francisco Hospital
Rescued by a passing ship, raving like a lunatic, a Philistine heretic

Now the moon shines fat and all reminds me of the thing I saw
Morphine gave me transient peace addicted to it's dark release

I dread the day the oceans rise when nameless daemons will arrive
Enact their plan of genocide, I'll beat them first with suicide!

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from The Daemons Mock Me While I Sleep, released July 28, 2017

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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. ... more

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