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The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Part 1)

from Anthology IV - The Lovecraft Connection by Mutiny in Jonestown

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The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Part 1) is from the 2003 album, "Providence". The song is broken into two parts due to BandCamp song length restictions.

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I

Back in the cold of 1928 government agents destroyed what I'd found
One night in July it was I who ran for my life
Followed the railway that lead out of town
A narrow escape from early mortality sealed my fate
Haunting what I am now
What once they were ever were what I am now!

The tale I must tell to restore my worn faculties
Centers around a tiara like crown
I saw it first hand in the Newburyport library, I had to learn more of
it's source so went round
And bought me a seat on a bus sternly ill-advised
To travel by day to that crumbling town,
That crumbling, worm-eaten, foul whispered town

A seer of sights and a seeker of history a genealogical researcher bound
Uncovering truth, uncovering fantasy, hidden by fear in this
shadowed old town
This Order of Dagon repulsed and attracted me
to desolate Innsmouth decay all around
A primal and fish-like decay all around

II

Joe Sargent he drove the bus, decrepit not one of us
Head narrow, unwinking eye, peculiar, but no surprise
One dollar, I watched the shore, desolation, the sun was warm

Atlantic, dead stumps and walls
An epidemic named Innsmouth calls
Deserted and deathly still, decay and squalor did make me ill
Church basement, an empty door, a priest of Dagon tiara worn
He shambled under robes a bejeweled sinister form

III

Just happy to be happily off that bus and in a hotel
Checked my bag and left my sadness strolled out on the village square
A dozen slant roof buildings, streetlights small a lonely few
Good thing I'll be gone by nightfall, troubling thoughts of Deja Vu

Found a young trustworthy man, did not like this place at all
Shared his thoughts drew me a map, warned me of the danger spots
Brought me in the rumor mill, found my interest growing still,
he'll tell no more but Zadok will

96 years in this town, he had seen what none go near
Bring him drink to grease his tongue, stranger tales you'll never hear
Took my leave and wandered forth streets alone deserted town
Architecture angles wrong, attic windows shuttered down
Puzzled and disturbing blight, furtive glances, secret rights
Zadok Allan in my sights

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from Anthology IV - The Lovecraft Connection, released March 19, 2016
Dennis Montgomery - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Drums, Vocals

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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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