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Escape the Clouds - "Warriors Without a War (3am Ukulele version)" | Steampunk Music

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Channel: Escape the Clouds · 2012 · Music

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Original version: http://escapetheclouds.bandcamp.com/track/warriors-without-a-war
Official Escape the Clouds site: http://www.escapetheclouds.com/

A little insomnia + a baritone ukulele = a rearrangement of track 8 from my album Until the End. The song is essentially a steampunk retelling of the story of the CSS Shenandoah, the only Confederate ship to circumnavigate the world. The song is not about politics and other sensitive issues. It's about a crew stranded thousands of miles from home, whose country has ceased to exist and who are now branded as pirates by the surrender documents.

"Warriors Without a War"
Written and performed by Mark R. of Escape the Clouds

Verse 1
We dropped through the overcast silent as death
Our twenty pounders trained on the airship ahead
Grapplers sailed across. We stormed over her trim.
The war between brothers ablaze at the Pacific rim.
 
Verse 2
Her captain shouted at the sight of my raiders,
"You're lower than the worst goddamned traitors.
You've got my ship, but you've still lost your war."
With my sabre to his neck, I demanded more
 
He tossed me a cable he'd long ago received
I saw with my eyes but could scarcely believe
Four months ago, as we set fire to the skies
Our countrymen fell broken at the Mason-Dixon line
 
Chorus
Still we press on... (Go!) Towards the waning sun... (Go!) Our bow cutting hard through the air
Never looking back... (No!) We'll never go back... (No!) Only misfortune lives there.
 
Verse 2
We hove to on the Australian coast
Took on stores as I confirmed the worst.
Amnesty had fallen all but my crew
Accidental pirates now hunted by the Blue
 
The ship was weighed off. The ballast vented.
A ship of pariahs no longer protected.
By the flag we still gallantly fly
By the cause for which we'll bravely die.
 
Chorus
 
Bridge
Soldiers without a nation.
Warriors without a war.
 
Chorus

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