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Hydrophobic Man

from I Can't Find My Cape by Cantor Dust

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Track 1 in Hydrophobic Man trilogy

lyrics

“You gotta help us Hydrophobic Man” screamed the terrified mass of people fleeing the land
“Our city and our lovers have been torn to shreds, now we're running for our lives with all the strength that we have”
As though with a wind down from heaven he sailed through the sky
Drawing ever closer to the tortured cries
He saw the expanses of earth that he'd known his whole life
Unrecognizable and about to die.
And when he finally reached the people that'd screamed his name
He saw that the ground all around them was crawling in the same sort of sickening way
in which it'd crawled right before embedding half the world with relentless pain.

Hooray Hydrophobic Man
If he can't do it, no one can!

“Reach up high, grab on to me. I am here to set you free.
I'll take you safely through the air, and we can find somewhere safe”
And they began to leave behind six hundred million hateful watching eyes
The blackness began to ascend and to the hero's dread
It's tendrils pulled the mask from atop the Hydrophobe's head
Exposing him for who he really is.


Corrosive darkness returned to the ground
A dozen rescued people found themselves airborne in some kind of
levitating charm.
The hero's eyes watched the threat recede.
While a dozen people stared at him, his face no longer shrouded in mystery.

The beating of his heart increased in syncopation with his fright
Fight or Flight? Was this it?
His identity had lost all its intrigue
And all those he'd released could not fail to see
His real eyes...
And all of their lies....

And in a panic
In an instant
It'd happened in the span of a breath
All of the people that he had rescued
Had fallen straight to their death
Why oh why Hydrophobic Man?
Why oh why Hydrophobic Man?

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from I Can't Find My Cape, released January 1, 2015
Mark Klassen
Jeff Konwalchuk
Ashley Jonasson

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Cantor Dust Winnipeg, Manitoba

The avant-prog, surreal storytelling project Cantor Dust is singer/pianist Mark Klassen, accompanied by electric cellist Natanielle Felicitas, currently exploring the emptiness that surrounds us as we float through space in search of light.

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