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The Mechanisms - Pump Shanty

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The Mechanism's 'Pump Shanty' is taken from their 2012 album, 'Once Upon A Time (In Space);.

The Mechanisms: a band of immortal space pirates roaming the universe in the starship Aurora. Some say they’re from a steampunk future, others claim they’re from a cyberpunk past, a few even whisper that they may be from a dieselpunk alternate now. They are all correct.

Generously donated by The Mechanisms to the Raising Steam anthology, raising funds for New Futures Nepal, registered charity number 1142984.

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lyrics

Some wiser man than I once spoke
That life at heart is all a joke
But he was not embroiled in smoke
So it’s pump, me boys, before we choke.

CHORUS
Pump, me boys, let her fly
Down to hell and up to the sky
Bend your backs and break your bones
We’re just a million miles from home.

The image of my sweetheart’s face
It fires my heart and sets the pace
Whate’er the time, whate’er the place
I’ll find him through the depths of space.

CHORUS

I long to lie atop my bed
With pleasant dreams inside my head
But pumping’s all I get instead
I’ll only sleep among the dead

CHORUS



My blood is pooling on the floor
And every second I lose more,
But there’s so many meds in store
I’ll do the work of three or four

CHORUS

The engine fumes will scorch your lungs
The air is thick, your eyes are stung,
But there’s no clean air left to run
This pumping business ain’t much fun.

CHORUS

The outer hull is shot to hell
The thrust has just one plasma cell
My joints and muscles ache and swell
So fuck the Rose, and you as well!

CHORUS

A transport mission gone awry,
Attacked by Cole and left to fry,
Is no excuse, boys, let us cry:
“Today is not the day we die!”

CHORUS

INSTRUMENTAL

CHORUS x2

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from Raising Steam, released April 20, 2014
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