Name: "The City" by The Mechanisms in the mechanisms ( in order )
Duration: 2 min 52 s
Description: The introduction to Ulysses Dies at Dawn, wherein the scene is set and our hero is introduced, along with a quartet of well-dressed villains.

the mechanisms ( in order )

A song for Brother Faulkner

Lyrics <3

The youngest son
The least of three
Pulled up from obscurity

The youngest son
The thirsting one 
The chosen witness of the flood

Oh The prophet learned the song
Of water cold, of breath that’s gone

And the prophet held the weight of that
Revelation on his brothers back 

The young man caught, in rivers flow 
Had still a hundred miles to go 

Crushed and crumpled at the gate
He’d learn his lesson first to wait

Waist deep in mud and deathly still
The prophet knew the water’s will

He knew he had not come to fail
That his work would be to great avail

And when the young man first turned flesh 
To the form his rushing god had wished 
And formed a saint from heresy 
His failure was for none to see 

Upon deeper truth they would alight 
This is the part they will not right

The break in heart, or gut or will
Washed away with all the swill

The youngest son
The hungry one 
Has writ his name in silt and blood

And when his time and work is done
His melody 
Will still live on

Oh his verse will still be sung
Oh his verse will still be sung
Oh! His verse will still be sung

The Prophet’s Song

The second of three live recordings from our Tragic Horror live event which took place at the Hackney Attic on the 25th October 2014.

Featuring: 
The Mechanisms http://themechanisms.com/

Tragic Horror Act 3

Song 2 of 16 of The Mechanism's Once Upon A Time In Space album

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02 Old King Cole - The Mechanisms

Song 5 of 16 of The Mechanism's Once Upon A Time In Space album

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05 Snows Flight - The Mechanisms

Song 6 of 16 of The Mechanism's Once Upon A Time In Space album

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06 Pump Shanty - The Mechanisms

Song 18 of 18 of The Mechanism's High Noon Over Camelot album

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18 Once and Future King - The Mechanisms

Finally, as promised long ago, a Night Vale song! This one is for Carlos the Scientist, back when he was still stuck in that desert otherworld.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Home Pt. 2...
•••
As I wander through this strange world
with these bright skies and these red lights
I just wonder how you all are
all the way back home.
 
Is it sunny? Is your cold gone?
Did I leave the kitchen stove on?
Are you happy? Do you miss me?
How are you getting by alone?
 
Well I’m alright, I’m fine.
I guess I’m meant to roam.
To never settle down somewhere,
to never have a home.
 
And I don’t know where your town is
and I don’t know how I came
I just know that once I got there
my entire life had changed.
 
It’s not what I was expecting
it’s not what I thought I wanted
but these moments I’ve collected
are the times I’d never trade.
 
And they’re all in my mind
These memories you’ve sown
like when I asked and you agreed
that we could start a home
 
I guess I was delusional or otherwise just juvenile
to think that just by wishing I could change the facts
but I’m a scientist and none of this can alter the hypothesis
that I don’t belong anywhere, in fact
 
I’ve been thinking for some time now
maybe this was meant to be
maybe I’m meant to get stuck here
and you’re meant to be here with me
 
But sometimes I close my eyes and
I see nothing but the strange land
where I found friends, love, and purpose
and for once I was not alone.
 
When those doors shut, then I realized
that no matter how hard I tried
I could never be a part of
that place that I called home.
 
But that’s alright, it’s fine
‘cause thanks to you I’ve known
what it feels like to live somewhere
what it feels like to love someone
to truly have a home.

Home Pt. 1

Rose Red

11 Scary World

06 Rex Marksley

From MAD VALENTINES EP (Simian/Old Flame, 2009)

Maria St. Claire

from my album "the summer i met the storm" inspired by denpasei's "ultramarine weather." 
download the album: http://helenaruth.com/storm
read the comic: https://tapas.io/series/ultramarineweather

lyrics:
highline, licorice 
nicotine, flick the wrist 
daylight, wasted... 
lover, it's an easy miss 

bar-side, riverbed, say; 
where you gonna rest your weary head? 
oh, what a fine night... 
say _sir,_ could you spare a light? 

--- 

highline, 
licorice nicotine, 
flick the wrist. 
daylight, wasted... 
lover, it's an easy miss. 

bar-side, 
riverbed, 
say. 
where you gonna rest your weary head? 
snakebites and long sighs 
get off the counter, get a life. 

--- 

[i don't THINK so. huh!] 
[did'ya hear what she said?]

the summer i met the storm

lover, it's an easy miss / barside, riverbed

Dave Strider (turntechGodhead) ironically reviews the song "Boyfriend".

Dave Strider Ironic Reviews: "Boyfriend" by Justin Bieber

City Radiation (A Disco Elysium Fansong)

The introduction to Ulysses Dies at Dawn, wherein the scene is set and our hero is introduced, along with a quartet of well-dressed villains.

"The City"

Preview of a track from my solo album, The Wassailant, releasing December 2020

Music: Kofi Young
Lyrics: William Shakespeare
SFX: Mike Koenig http://soundbible.com/2125-Wind-Blowing.html

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LOST

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Will answer to "The Mechanisms".

REWARD
(Dead or alive).

No collar.

"The City"

The Mechanisms

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