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Announcer:
We take you now to a small, morbid room deep in an underground bunker. His skin festering where the cables and iron tubes worm their way in and out of his reconstructed body, John O’Brien sits alone in the sickly green light, where only 2 mannequins with screens for heads keep him company.


Child on screen:
Past the world, past the night, past the stars where sea birds fly
Past your dreams to toyland’s shore, where we will meet again once more

John:
There’s rust in my bones and sins in my flesh
My skin rots wires and iron infest
They’ve butchered my body to make me the best

Their mad dog of war they unleash on the world
To burn and ravage, gut and hurl
In between i sit here and think of the girl

The scent of fragrance on the wind
Is all you are and all you’ve been
Lullabyes and dime store tales
No dreams escape the green room pale

No colors cloud your day dreams, your penny dreadful memories
Your worn through war time serial tales
No dreams escape the green room pale

Their one super soldier, the one that survived
The red pill’s for duty the blue’s for inside
Their failed plan for an army of gods made of iron

At night these screens light up with faces i’ve known
The flesh i’ve left rots and falls from my bones
I sit with the girl in the screen all alone

PA:
Please exit the bunker, take the red pill, and report for active duty
Please exit the bunker, take the red pill, and report for active duty

John:
In the fire in the fire
Bathe in the fire in the fire

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from The New Albion Radio Hour, A Dieselpunk Opera, released May 20, 2013
Featuring Oliver Marsh, with Lauren Osborn

Guitar by Matthew Broyles

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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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