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The Colour Out of Space

from The Daemons Mock Me While I Sleep by Mutiny in Jonestown

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West of Arkham the hills rise wild
Deep wood valleys with rivers wide
One does live there though many tried
Ammi Pierce and his mad brained bride

Restless oppression, "The Blasted Heath"
Ancient farmlands grown thick with trees
Ruination of buildings here
Warn the living away with fear

Gardners' lands were the target mark
Metorite came from aeons dark
Ancient fire burned days and nights
Never cooling, remaining bright

Stone was shrinking but luminous
Slowly fading to green grey dust
Miskatonic professors came
Collecting samples that vanished all the same...

[Gardners' Story]
Spring! I forgot the rock and took to planting dawn to dusk
The soil uncanny strange and lightly covered with grey dust
I kept to working hard though horses seemed to cut and run
The seeds were sown in rows with care just as I'd always done

As summer turned to fall I gazed amazed upon my crops
Their size fantastic but inside they'd all were filled with rot
My livestock took to turning grey and water from my well
Began to phospherize contaminated and unwell

My wife! Eventually came unhinged and screamed throughout the days
I locked her in the attic shielded from the townfolk's gaze
My son had drunk the water from the glowing tainted well
Which earned him his own place beside his mother's pad locked cell

My only friend and confidant was Pierce and he I told
The whole demented story of the creeping deadly mold
When I upon my deathbed asked his help to save my farm
He only nodded knowingly aware of what's to come

Pierce gathered 6 men
traveled to the farm
The horror they discovered
prepared to do them harm
While burning down the buildings
they were shocked when the well
Emitted the same colour
as the meteorite that fell
They ran in horror seeking
to escape with mind intact
But saw the light rise skyward
from whence it did attract
When some returned into the well
the men all sickly knew
The alien now possessed their land
and nothing they could ever hope to do...

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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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