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Diaries of Disaster (single)

by Doctor Mirabilis

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From the forthcoming album 'Aims and Methods'

Words, vocals, and music by John Tully, except:

Tenor Sax by Tom C
Alto Sax by Kyle Forester
Real Drums by JJ O'Connell

Copyright Sublemotion Records 2023

lyrics

I. 

I’ll recitate now if you please 
A tale befits Euripides 
‘Tween Hagibis and Ulysses  
A memoir of debacle  

Escaping from September's whip with  
Homeric zeal we gave the slip  
To winter’s noose, embarked the ship  
Unleashed from burden's shackles  

‘Side old volcanic towering lake
At wedding feast, we laid our stake
Our hearts, at peace, released the break  
No turmoil left to tackle  

Little did we know or sense  
That deep beneath the fissure vents  
The magma roused, the message sent  
By Anubis the jackal 

And with the night thus married on  
On to San Juan we carried on  
Taal’s unknown raging ravaged on  
It's furnace yet to crackle  

 
II. 

Sailing back towards mean of time  
On waves of hope, we learned of signs  
Of waves of fear, of death knells' chimes  
Of proxy decimation  

On winter's barren coast we docked  
Abandon’s promise on the rocks  
And forecasts of the seal unlocked  
As per Book of Revelation  

Astride, an old plague’s novel strain  
Took hold with force of Charlemagne  
A triumph of faith o’er Reason’s reign  
And Freedom’s abnegation 

Seeking refuge from archaic disease  
I turned to old world treatise  
In John the Scott, Averroes 
Resistance to ablation  

But liberty, I learned too late  
Unshielded, will capitulate  
To a new fearful middle age, a state  
Of premature negation  


III. 

How weak our fortress proved to be  
Its chosen guard reduced to knee  
Its granite walls assuredly  
Gave way like alabaster  

Still seeking sources of rescue  
I moved through Mill and Montesquieu  
The arc of progress oft gets skewed  
Before the point of master  

Midst chronicles of thought and time  
And annals of ecstatic rhyme  
Lie journals of the captive mind  
And diaries of disaster  

Now grounded in our grim enclave  
As demigods dictate the waves  
And swathes content in Safety's cave  
Deny what's to follow after  

Still, I turn back to the sages  
Wisdom in their yellowed pages  
Reason rising through the ages-  
Dream of, at last, its laughter  

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released November 15, 2023

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Doctor Mirabilis Nottingham, UK

After shedding the exoskeleton of troubled troubadour JT Songs, Doctor M emerged fully formed and backed by the superb playing and production of Peyton Pinkerton on his first three albums, A Matter of Mind (2011), Exiles (2014), and The Captain’s Chorus (2017). Aims and Methods (2023) signals a new musical direction and the first release recorded and mixed at Doctor M’s own Sublemotion Studios. ... more

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