Shanghai Train
from Consider Yourselves Conquered by The Horde
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lyrics
I dreamt that Shanghai was a train:
One that started in the muck and mire of marshes
Forged by the hands of quais-feral fishermen
Bending fishhooks into rails, burning fishnets for engine exhaust.
There was no originating station
The train began trudging as the tracks were laid
As paint was plied to the smokestacks
As the engineer learned to drive
But soon the train began to pick up steam
Flying forward faster and faster
Hounding the hodded millet makers
Disrupting the slumbering stonecutters
With the sound of its great steam whistle
Bellowing across the continent
As if to say:
I'm here! I'm here!
All aboard!
All aboard the Shanghai train!
One that started in the muck and mire of marshes
Forged by the hands of quais-feral fishermen
Bending fishhooks into rails, burning fishnets for engine exhaust.
There was no originating station
The train began trudging as the tracks were laid
As paint was plied to the smokestacks
As the engineer learned to drive
But soon the train began to pick up steam
Flying forward faster and faster
Hounding the hodded millet makers
Disrupting the slumbering stonecutters
With the sound of its great steam whistle
Bellowing across the continent
As if to say:
I'm here! I'm here!
All aboard!
All aboard the Shanghai train!
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from Consider Yourselves Conquered,
released March 1, 2013
Words - Ho-Tom the Conqueror
Harmonica - George the Goliath
Words - Ho-Tom the Conqueror
Harmonica - George the Goliath
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Jan 2016 -
Mar 2013
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