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Empty Shells

from Origins by M-Opus

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Narrator speaks:
“Miller hot-wired a Connector and flew a lonely path across the black Atlantic. Crossing England, he landed at the edge of Hartlepool, the abandoned coastal town in the North of England.

Miller sings:
Under a dead-eye sun, amid the Winter grey.
I pull up at the edge of town, Hartlepool in the rain.

Test for toxicity, the air’s as pure as the poles.
No radioactivity, but there’s a light down there by the coast.
At Happy Hill Holiday Park, they’ve been preparing for war.
Bullet holes in an ice cream stall, bloody hand print on a restaurant door.

Spent munitions on a bandstand. I pick up a pulser gun,
Portraits on a tavern wall, it’s Jonah and Nathaniel Crow.
Dubbed “Soothsayer” and the other one “Krown”.

So you fell down a well?
Now you don't know which is heaven and which is hell.
You lost your mind when you found your will.
New religion and materiel, but all that's left is an empty shell.

In a chalet by the water slides, Jonah’s handwritten notes,
Proven visions of the future, the world will be Krown’s and this he knows.

Well whaddya know?
A teleporter in the Market Square.
Engineering plans of the White Rose Decks.
Navigation lines that lead nowhere.

There on the plans, I follow the flight path, the line arcs down,
Descent of the ship, dwindling space,
Falling and spinning, I see it flame, blazing through the atmosphere,
Accelerate towards the Southern States, it spins faster, approaching,
I see it fall, on the Reactor in Texas.

Internal Voice:
“60km ship, re-entry, impact crater, beyond scanner, depth, containment breach, explosion, America devastated, billions dead, extinction level event.”

We hear an old news report.

Reporter speaks:
“One of man’s crowning achievements in the field of science, the Antimatter Reactor at Comanche Peak in the State of Texas is the world’s most advanced and powerful antimatter containment facility. Spokespeople like to say their machines could store a supernova in a raindrop, but are they as safe as they claim? Tom Worthing reports on the dangers inherent in antimatter manufacture and the deadly cost of taking them for granted.”

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from Origins, released May 1, 2020

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M-Opus Dublin, Ireland

M-Opus are a progressive rock band from Ireland.
(Jonathan Casey, Mark Grist, PJ O'Connell, Colin Sullivan, James Dunne).
They are a real band, but have a fictional history.
They record their albums today, but the albums have release dates in the past, featuring the sounds of music at that time.
"At The Mercy Of Manannán" (1972), "ORIGINS" (1978) and "1975 Triptych" (1975). ... more

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