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The Sailor's Tale

from Forever Endeavor by Mythology

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The first true Mythology song. Written in early 2007. Some movements as early as 2005.

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I) Prelude

II) The Far Away Land:

*You walk down the street on your way to meet up with an old friend, when a stranger asks you where you’re going. He is dressed rather odd in a suit and a top hat with a pointy mustache. You tell him you’re meeting a friend at 8:00 with is 20 minutes away and that you’re in quite a hurry if he doesn’t mind.

“This’ll only take a few minutes…” He continues.*

Stranger: "Let me take you there, to the far away land
Where nothing is real, nor the ground which we stand.
So let’s take a trip, the ship’s about to sail.
There’s telling what this trip will unveil.”

*Your curiosity is stroked, so you ask him what he means by all that. He simply instructs you to walk through the door over to the left. A rustic, plain looking door in one of the buildings. You stand there contemplating when he interjects:*

Stranger: "So what will it be? We’re waiting no more!
All that’s ashore is going ashore!
It’s now time to leave, and see what we see.
So untie the mast, may Luck be with thee!”

*You humor this madman and walk into the door. You are very upset to learn that there is nothing in the room at all! Irate, you turn to exit from where you came in only to find that the door isn’t there anymore! Suddenly, the lights go out. You hear the stranger’s voice:*

Stranger: "HERE WE GO!!!”

III) Setting Sail:

*When you hear that, the ground beneath you seems to vanish as well. You are falling. Falling perpetually. You scream for help, but nobody comes to your aid. You begin to witness a wide array of colors that you have never seen before in your life whizzing past your head. You touch one of the bands of color running past you. It feels very pleasant and soothing. Warm and euphoric. You sort of wish this light show wouldn’t end. You hear the stranger laughing all the while.*

IV) Mandatory Fishing License: (Dedicated to Brian Smyth)

*You land in an old schooner in the midst of a seemingly infinite body of water.. You see a dark storm cloud coming towards the schooner.

The storm is violent! Crashing waves every moment! The schooner fills with water. You desperately try to rid the boat of water. It is futile, though. The ship fills more and more with each passing second. Just when you think the storm is ending, a bolt of lightning strikes the schooner, completely destroying it! It launches you a few yards straight into the endless sea.*

V) Shipwreck:

*You float in the water, clinging onto a piece of wood from your former boat. The water is freezing.

You: "And now I’m alone, just me and the sea.
Storm wrecked my ship, and there’s nothing to see
For miles and miles, land is so far away.

I have to survive, I’ve a family to feed.
Where are they now? Are they thinking of me?
I can’t die today. I can’t die today.

Water covers me from my neck down.
False hopes arise as I look around.
No one is near me. Nothing is near me.

Exhaustion takes over, it’s starting to win.
Nothing can save me. Think of my kin.
As I go down. As I go down.”

*Your consciousness begins to fade when…*

VI) The Rescue:

*A twinkle of light from far away creeps over the horizon.

You: "A light from a distance becomes present
As I regain my thoughts, I swim towards it.
How did I survive? I shouldn’t be alive.
The light, it gets brighter. It makes me revive.
They throw down rope. They pull me aboard.
They take my hand. Let’s return to land.”

VII) Return To Land:

*The ship that rescued you is enormous! It contains many medics who nurse you back to health. They feed you abundantly and give you new, dry clothes to wear. One of the female medics says, “We’re here!”

You see a blinding white light that engulfs your vision completely. When the light goes away…*

VIII) Home Again:

*You realize you’re standing on the same street corner you met the stranger on. You look frantically for him and his door, but neither are anywhere to be found.*

You: "And now that I’m back from the far away land.
And everything’s real, and it’s ground wear I stand.
I think of the time that I almost went down
To the watery abyss on the Ocean’s ground...”

*You run off to meet your friend. You’re not late.*

"I’ve never been back to the Ocean since then
For it brings back the time when I almost went in.
I leave it for men who are brave than I.
For they are the ones who are going to die!"

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from Forever Endeavor, released January 24, 2012

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Mythology West Milford, New Jersey

Formed in 2007, Mythology is a 3-piece Progressive Rock band from West Milford, NJ with a tenacity that is rarely seen in modern bands. Culling influences from the greatest artists of yesteryear. Elements of Jazz, Hard Rock, Blues, Heavy Metal, Classical, and Cinema all come together in a cohesive manner. Strict, daring Composition meets wide-open Improvisation in the Mythology world. ... more

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