[00:00.000] 作曲 : The Mechanisms
[00:00.114] Ulysses dies at dawn.
[00:03.060] At least, that’s the word on the street among those as saw what went down at Calypso’s.
[00:07.439] Now listen up, cuz we’ve got a labyrinthine twisted task of a tale to tell and if you don’t keep up,
[00:14.005] you might get lost.
[00:16.420] First, to understand how this all goes down you’ve got to know a little about the planet we’re talking of.
[00:22.322] See, on this planet there was a city, grim old city,
[00:25.232] the sort of place the rain beats down like coffin nails and the air wafts with the cigarette stench of betrayal.
[00:31.737] My kind of town.
[00:34.841] Now this city, grim old city,
[00:36.602] starts to grow.
[00:37.513] And when it meets other towns, other cities it takes them into itself,
[00:41.309] absorbs them,
[00:42.089] until soon enough there’s no land left.
[00:44.418] So the city spreads outwards into the sea,
[00:46.158] and when there’s no sea left the city spreads upwards into the sky,
[00:49.463] and when there’s no sky left it burrows inwards,
[00:56.146] like a cancer, into the bowels of the planet.
[00:59.702] And eventually, there is nothing but the city.
[01:05.707] So generations live and generations die in the warrens and the tunnels and even the lower levels of the surface,
[01:12.125] never to see the sun.
[01:14.861] And it’s in one of the deepest,
[01:16.499] most secret of these tunnels we meet our hero.
[01:19.475] Goes by the name of Ulysses.
[01:21.857] Currently beaten, battered, bloody, unbowed.
[01:26.659] Spits out a mouthful of teeth and disdain and looks up to see four of the meanest bastards of the meanest streets of the meanest parts of the city.
[01:35.512] All immaculately turned out in pinstripes. We’ll call them the Suits.
[01:41.545] You might ask how things came to such a path
[01:44.584] I know Ulysses is.
[01:46.737] Well, it started in a bar, as these things so often do.
[01:50.193] In Calypso’s
[01:51.162] – a run down old gin joint, pays its money to Dionysus –
[01:55.054] our hero slumped over a bottle of whiskey,
[01:59.264] trying to drown enough sorrows to choke a horse.
[02:02.293] And one horse in particular.