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Escape Pod

by Tesla Cøils

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Escape Pod 06:54
Falling from the edge of the sun I crashed landed my escape pod on Tyrannus A planet I had only heard tell of in old poems I dragged myself from the wreckage And set out along the undergrowth On my Cosmonaut electric bike It ran on Tesla technology We had run out of fossil fuels hundreds of years ago And as I sped past unwelcoming eyes from the thicket I realized how humid this planet's atmosphere was Falling from the edge of the sun I must have dozed off because my wheel collided with a stray branch And I went flying into the shrubs My arm had burst open, blood was flowing and bone was showing So I pleasured myself at the sight of the blood When I was finished I fashioned myself a makeshift splint Out of vegetation and things I found on the forest floor My bike had fallen to pieces at the foot of a great stone monolith Which was carved in runes I just couldn't understand Falling from the edge of the sun So I followed the woodland for three days on end, And it got thicker and denser On the third day I reached a shack surrounded by a steamy bog A swamp-hooker named Agatha lived there And for four power-cells I spent the night with her When I awoke she had been pinned to the wall by a foamy binding residue And the whole shack was surrounded by bounty hunters weilding pulse rifles, And the leader struck me in the neck with a toxic dart Falling from the edge of the sun Just gotta get back to the Escape Pod

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"The tale of the Cosmonaut and his happening upon Planet Tyrannus and the subsequent birth of the second Tyrannian civilisation is that of legend on our home planet. We made this piece for you in ode to this centuries-old tale."

Back when we were doing the whole "we are aliens from Planet Tyrannus" schtick, I was writing a lot of music that followed this specific lore. I originally envisioned a concept album that followed a narrative of an epic alien conquest on a planet far away, with a film clip for every song (quite an unrealistic task to give to my 26-year-old self without a dollar to my name). It was fun to pretend to be something else. When we won our first Gold Coast Music Award, I addressed the crowd as "lifeforms". I kept this facade up on the socials and for promotional purposes, but I did eventually grow tired of the process - especially when I had the self-realisation that it was time to just be me. Regardless, "Escape Pod" gave us a reason to book our first east coast Australian tour, playing heaps of shows and making new friends along the way. Pretty good for a ridiculously long song with sordid lyrics such as "so I pleasured myself at the sight of the blood". Ugh.

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released December 23, 2016

ESCAPE POD
Performed by Jed A. Walters and Chris Dennis
Mixed by Jed A. Walters

teslacoilsmusic.com

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Tesla Cøils Gold Coast, Australia

Cold and melancholic music for the alienated.

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