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Through many sleepless nights I tossed beneath it's winking eye
A message too dark to deliver from my Northern sky
Yet I perceived a greater purpose than my waking hours
If I could just decode the pole star and it's shrieking power

And then the night arrived a fitful sleep betrayed my mind
I felt awoken in a marble tower, Byzantine
As I surveyed the moving city beings not met before
Seemed focused on a deadly task preparing for a war

Descending from that tower I sought to join the figurines
But as I moved among them as a shadow, lost, unseen
"My place is here", I called, "let me help you save your land!"
Just then I woke and though confused began to understand

I offered worship to Polaris - let me aid my friends
The marble city needs my eyes and ears to help defend
When finally sleep did take me I was then transported there
But once again I walked a shadow, unknown everywhere

Many nights I'd repeat the dream
'till I questioned my sanity and
Sought to be as one with those who
lived and died in Olathoe

Suddenly - unexpectedly
I became of the marble city
Drafted to it's honor guard
Sent to watch the boulevard for the enemy approach

Proud stood I with my vision sharp
Then it caught my eye in the dark and
Hideously winked like an eye
Tempting me with lullaby

Eyes grew heavy - Polaris called
Driving me to a failing AWOL
As I dropped my lonely post
Doomed my city hearing mockingly...

"Slumber, watcher, till the spheres,
Six and twenty thousand years
Have revolv'd, and I return
To the spot where now I burn.
Other stars anon shall rise
To the axis of the skies;
Stars that soothe and stars that bless
With a sweet forgetfulness;
Only when my round is o'er
Shall the past disturb thy door."

Vainly struggled, my drowsiness
Sealed my fate, I acquiesce
End the dream
Absolve my deed

In my bed, inside my head
and in my heart, the dream is dead
The daemons mock me while I sleep

Describe the fall of Olathoe
They say my failure made it so
All was lost to holocaust!

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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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