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Mister Fort

from Fort by Chris Harris

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In which our hero finds out about this album's titular character.

Between 1919 and 1932 Charles Hoy Fort wrote four iconoclastic books: The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo! and Wild Talents. He used them to rail against accepted scientific knowledge, discuss his own theories of the causes of such things as rains of frogs and disappearing people, and generally disparage conventional wisdom. Devotees of his work have included Stephen King, Philip K. Dick, Robert Heinlein, and Robert Anton Wilson.

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Whilst I was walking round the town
I chanced upon a gentleman
You hold in some renown
And much to his and my surprise
He showed me wonders
'til the scales fell from my blinkered eyes

One measures circles
starting anywhere
The things that startle
he finds everywhere
He's Mister Fort

The New York Public Library
Became a treasure chest
When he showed it to me
He told such tales I'd never dreamed
Until I realised that
Nothing's as it seemed

(Chorus)

He doesn't trust the sky above
He thinks our liberty
We're undeserving of
He says our owners live above our heads
If we but knew it,
We'd lie quaking underneath our beds

(Chorus)

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from Fort, released April 1, 2018

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Chris Harris Bristol, UK

I'm still trying to get the music I record to sound like the version I can hear in my head. To do this I've ended up playing every instrument I can get my hands on. These days, I'm closer to "That Sound" than I used to be, but the journey continues.

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