The New Albion Guide to Analogue Consciousness: An Atompunk Opera Libretto

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Music and Lyrics by

Paul Shapera



The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness was first

released as a concept album in July 2014, and featured the

following cast:

Rachael/Adrian: Lauren Osborn

Lee/Man on Radio: Paul Shapera

Connor: Oliver Marsh

The Mascot 3000: Kayleigh McKnight

Yaser Latef: Darrel Whitney





Act 1:

Overture

Mascot 3000:

Would you like to initiate consciousness?

Consciousness initiating

Would you like to initiate narrative?

Narrative initiating

Please choose era

Era: Atompunk

Please select location

Location: New Albion

New Albion 10

Mascot 3000:

There‟s a city it is said that borders with the land of dead

And since you‟re here again, you best just stay

New Albion‟s its name, a sleek and large and lonely place

And a tale of it we tell today

Two decades now it‟s been since a voodoo religion

Spread like flames and disappeared like smoke

Only a generation hence, oh the tech boom was intense

But these days Arcadia Corp is closed

Here‟s to the days of bliss and wishes

Here‟s to the wild seeds once sown

Here‟s to the cults and waltz and whispers

Before they just us all alone

Left us hangin on our own

Housing projects lay half bare

Bathed in lonely, neon glare

Chorales of cockroaches sing hymns all through

There‟s an oracle now who the middle classes all flock too

Though it‟s a radiated pile of ooze



There‟s a super hero though he‟s just a hologram you know

Three college students they project each night

The monorail line A has a ghost at night they say

A pop star who has yet to break or die

Here‟s to the days that blazed so vivid

When voodoopunks sang upon the street

Here‟s to the diodes and transistors

That promised the future they would bring

But it‟s not all like it seems

A taxi driver you may know you think a robot but not so

A mouse named Kevin lives inside his skull

He‟s the one who drives the cab, tells bad jokes and who cops ask

For advice on crimes to tough to solve

An albino red haired girl, well she runs the underworld

Controls a sandy drug I know you know

It‟s a generation hence from oh so interesting events But these days Arcadia Corp is closed

Here‟s to the days of songs and stories

there‟s one more I‟d like you all to hear

It all begins now with our dear Rachael,

been in the Asylum two long years

She had some fine days of bliss and wishes,

but just the city‟s they have flown

Please join me to lend her and attend her,

she‟s been too long in there on her own

And that‟s longer than you know

Rachael

Rachael:

One day the walls will fall away

and in the open air I‟ll race

your rooms, your pills, your white restraints

you will choke on them I pray

the smug scratch of your penyour sticky fingers in my head

and ask how did I lose my grasp on the truth

was it abuse or booze that brought me to

where girls are kept under careful lock

be good or get the shock




A swallowed key will buy my way

From stern and sighing white frocked men

Who tell me “stop this sad pretense.

Miss Idle‟s Home for Orphaned Girls gave you a leg up in this world,

But now you just stain the good Alderman‟s name

Girls who lie will find they get put away

And kept under careful lock

Be good or get the shock”

And all my life the radio

Told me how it loved me so

All for me a yearning song, a long last love where I belong

She‟s mad they say. Lock her deep away.

I caught his eye the day he came

With his Save Orphans Now campaign

At fifteen I, his special girl, he showed me a new, exciting worldWith sweet precision how he swept me off my feet and into bed

A rapturous dream it certainly seemed, I was too young to know, to

see

Until the day my cycle was late

“You will rid yourself of this” he came to say

And when I refused they came and accused

And swore and said there‟s something wrong with my head

And then they locked me away, drugged me up and ripped my child away

And if I ever dare to say his name

All will be taken from you

Ah, and all you love will go to

Ah

And all my life the radio

Told me how it loved me so

All for me a yearning song, a long last love where I belong


And in the open air I race

Introducing The Mascot 3000

Mascot 3000:

Rachael flees the mad house

runs into the evening breeze

she doesn't know it now



but she is heading straight for me

beyond the gates, an old man waits

as if he knew she'd come

he holds me in his hands

tells her to take me and to run

Connor:

I'm sorry for your sorrows

you think that we don't know you

but oh my dear I‟ve watched you for so long

Arcadia Corp is closed down

but some parts they are still round

and they want you to have this to call on

This tablet can be your guidethe very first true AI

the Mascot type 3000 and it's yours

Perhaps I‟ll see you once more

the hope of my heart you are

good luck, I hope it's you we've waited for

Mascot 3000:

Rachael flees the madman

but with me in her armsscared and lost, together

we begin life on the run

information and advice

I give her as we go

I‟m just so glad to be with her

in a tale all of our own

Together then a few days hence

we find a place to hide

Inside the Shopogopolis

where we sit tight and reside

The Shopogopolis

Rachael:

Day by day by day by day




Deep inside we hide away

As day fades into day by day

Mascot 3000:


At so together here we stay


You and I, we will find our way


Here in this world, our special place

As day fades into day by day by day by day

Rachael:

Come round the bright recursion, come drive the Escher wheel

The crowds and children chatter and only credit runs wild roundthrough here

The clerks sigh, smile sometimes rent dressings rooms to sleep or

mate

Different stores immersed in style wars inspire different gangs armed

with cans of paint

Come where the chaos into soft, round middle age just fades

And hide, hide away. And hide, hide away

Fool round the food court, smirking adolescents flirt and blush

And every day I eat their endless deep fried half unfinished lunchMeander round the Mobius which marks your march from crib to grave

With sales and special sweeteners that you‟ll love to need and need to

crave

Come where the wild uncertain in the end is drugged and tamed


hears staticy radio song)

Rachael:


And still I hear that song that plays


The one that‟s all in my head they say


And so my mind will slip away

As day fades into day by day



Mascot 3000:




As day fades into day by day by day by day

Rachael:

Come where the muzak chants incantations to raise your credit score

In here I rest and dress and hide, hook up with clerks when I get

bored

Come where your race retires at end of evolution‟s day

The zenith of domestication will make you stick steak knives in your

brain

Come where the wild at last is exorcised away


Radio Song:

You‟re all I want and you‟re all I need

You‟re all I hope and you‟re all I dream

And I love you, love you, so far gone

I wish a wish of a wish you dreamed

Of a faraway where we both can be


I‟d cross the world, I‟d climb the sawed off ends of time

Id fall and crawl and die to have you by my side

We‟d build a paradise, a world where heaven lies

Come with me my sweet delight, oh girl I‟ll take you there tonight

What The Trite And Banal Say

Rachael:

Someday soon I‟ll crumble

someday soon I‟ll fall

my sanity I see

now will not hold for very long

I hear the song of madness

playing in my head

and someday they will come

and they will drag me back again



Mascot 3000:

Someday all your burdens

you'll set down for a rest

and sit with me in comfort

perhaps in happiness

Till then just know the signal

that hear is real and true

a frequency that few could

someone's broadcasting for you

someone's broadcasting for you

Rachael:

Someday love could find a way

Is it foolish for to praythat what the trite and banal say

love will find you too one day

Someday when the sorrow fades

past the heavy, weeping weight

there will finally be a day

all your burdens fall away

and someday past the days of dread

past the scars and tethered threads

you will rise up on that daysomeday love will find a way

Someday love...

Mascot 3000:

A thin breath away

the smoke drifts on up

with all that you hold

and all that you're told

and all that you love

The signal is not far

we could find it if we go

and old abandoned factory

Arcadia Corp once owned

If you want then we could go now



together you and I

away in just a thin breath

and leave this world behind

Rachael:

Someday love will find a way

past the heavy, weeping weight

there will finally be a day

when all your burdens fall a way

Someday past the paths you've strayed

the betrayals and dismay

past the long and jaded way

we will rise up on that day

and someday love will a way

all who fall will rise againall the broken will be saved

Someday love will find a way

Someday love...

One day one call will find us all

Mascot 3000:

A thin breath awayand all that you knew

for granted or learned

will suddenly turn

and never was true

Connor:

I see that you have found me

that means then that you must be

hearing the song only one could, so

after all these years then

your lover's song has worked and

there is much my dear that you must know

Machines not touched for years now

must be started and while

that is done that console over there



Just plug your Mascot in and

it will play events that

though long ago it's vital that you hear

End Act 1



Act 2:

New Albion 8

Mascot 3000:

A generation it has been since the civil war ended and the city‟s in a

golden age

Religion‟s back my friends, the Voodoopunks well they have spread

uniting our dear city once again

There‟s a tech boom bursting forth led by the great Arcadia Corp which

the Voodoopunks have built and own

Great new technologies it‟s led, like tablets with consciousness but

their true purpose only now unfolds

Project Elysium, my friends, is the V P‟s great vision and its

culmination‟s soon to come

There‟s excitement in the air, expectation everywhere as they prepare

to greet the eschaton

The red haired lad realized the only way to end the fight between

himself and the albino tribe

Over the sandy drug‟s dispense, was for him himself to wed and so

their princess she became his bride

Here‟s to the days of bliss and rapture, the Voodoopunks dancing in

the streets

Here‟s to achievement and beliefs and the shiny new world they will

greet, that their destiny will meet

Kyrie

Voodoopunks:

Dollay dollay, dollay dollay, dollay dollay oh

Kyrie eleison in the dream we've waited for

Kyrie eleison on Elysium's far shore

Kyrie eleison to where heaven's city waits

Adrian:

Open the door, come along, soon your troubles will be gone

Just put the weight that you drag to the side and come at last

There is a land that I see and we're going there to be

It's a city we will build in Elysium with me



Voodoopunks:

Kyrie eleison on the dream we've waited for

Kyrie eleison on Elysium's far shore

Kyrie eleison on where heaven's city waits

Adrian:

Now since the dawn men have dreamed of where earth and heaven meet

Well there's a door that they've found and they'll open it soon now

We all will cross, we will live, we will laugh and love and give

It's a city we will build in Elysium we will

Voodoopunks:

Kyrie eleison in the dream we've waited for

Kyrie eleison on Elysium's far shoreKyrie eleison on where heaven's city waits

Connor:

This bliss and adoration, this blind intoxication

The kool-aid that they‟re drinking which is laced

Some scheme I know is brewing, some fool design is looming

It must be stopped before it is too late

This plan, this secret mission, will come soon to fruition

Unless I act to stop it in its tracksThe city council‟s now set to cut its funding but yet

Arcadia is full of tricks and traps

Connor

Connor:

When the garden you tend dies

and the doors which lead inside

are locked and those who try

to talk their way in, lie

We were young, we were in love

wild, voodoo prancing punks

and you just knew she's headed up

and I just rode along for fun

As your time spins and sets

what you love you can forget



this I hope, I believe

it's insomnia fantasy

There's a time our garden bloomed

pubs, promotions, pregnant too

the big deal work that she would do

for Arcadia, but soon

they had schemes you can't believe

computers made from human beings

and the strange stuff they would need

babies, fetuses and things





The rotting roots that you don't see

crawling allo about beneath

you love, you trust, believe

But those you know are just a step

to the baneful from the blessed

betrayed, you break that day

On the day our garden died

how I screamed and how I cried

how I begged her, but she sighedand to their dark schemes gave our child

All those years ago I left

Amber's done fine, moved up since

now she leads them and I don't rest

I fight them with my every breath

So the years have come and gone

We've each had a child since, but

I suspect that they're in love

and I fear for what will come







The Lovers

Adrian, Lee and the Voodoopunks:

Dollay dollay, dollay dollay, dollay dollay oh

Mascot 3000:

Arcadia‟s devised a way to open wide a door away

And they will send the voodoopunks to Elysium to immigrate

And as the Voodoopunks get set to go to Elysium they‟re dealt a blow

All the work that Connor‟s done, well he gets their funding cut with

days to go

But now we shift our focus, come to Amber‟s child, Connor‟s son who

are distraught

They are young and they‟re in love, they think Elysium is all they‟ve

got

Lee:




I wish to wish of a wish you dreamed



Adrian:

It always was just me and you, against the world, against the rules

But now he‟s bust the road ahead and dropped the dreams from out our

bed

Your Daddy O‟s come packing heat and sprayed the walls with dreams we

dreams

They‟ll straddle us with bones and chains, break us cage us make us

age

Lee:

But what if there

Adrian:There was a way

Lee:

To make him change his mind

Adrian:

let‟s say, If he thought



Lee:

I was enslaved we go there now

Adrian:

and we pretend that you‟re possessed

Lee:

and he must end his war

Adrian:

to see you safe again

Lee:

I‟d cross the world, I‟d climb the sawed off ends of time

I‟d fall and crawl and die to have you by my side

We‟d build a paradise, a world where heaven lies

Where none who venture die, oh girl I‟ll take you there tonight




I wish to wish of a wish you dreamed



I‟ll take you far away from desperate lives on day

Beyond the crumbling sheds of soulless, dying menFor us there won‟t be lies, or crushed and wasted lives

For us there‟ll be Elysian Nights forever with you by my side

You‟re all I see and you‟re all I save

And you‟re all I need and you‟re all I crave

And I love you, love you so far gone

And all the angels looking down

Don‟t love you like I do right now

I love you, love you so far gone

And I love you, love you, yes I love you love you

Yes I love you love you so far gone



The Deceit

Mascot 3000:

Lee and Adrian have hatched a wild plan to trick his dad

And he‟ll stop his mad attacks, and their funding will come back

That Lee‟s possessed they will pretend, his mind captive and thuswhen

Project Elysium again is restored they will ascend

Voodoopunks:

Ooo

Dollay oh dollay oh dollay dollay

Adrian:

Dear Mr. Morgan well I‟m sad to say You‟ve taken our funding, our money away

And so your son well now he‟s been possessed

He‟s under a spell an occult, arcane hex

Lee:

Dollay oh oh we come dollay, dollay oh oh we come dollay

Adrian:

Dear Mr. Morgan well I‟m sad to say

If you want your son back then you‟ll do what i say

Oh please undo the bad thing you‟ve done

We‟ve got to get back to Elysium

Lee:

Dollay oh oh we come dollay, dollay oh oh we come dollay

Dollay oh oh we comin‟ dollay, Dollay oh oh we comin‟ dollay,

Adrian:

Please, Mr. Morgan won‟t you please

Let your poor son be released, free

To be with me

Connor:

Enough!

Enough, all right you win. I will do as i am bid.

Please just go



You may smirk and smile, believe

Your smug ways win but you will see

I vow I‟ll bring you down

Use the one who most I love

And I will show you sorrow such

I vow I‟ll bring you down

The Voodoopunks’ Ascension

Lee:

I wonder if my dad will even know I‟m gone

Mascot 3000:

And so the time has come,the Voodoopunks all gather up

the portal to Elysium has opened wide

and now they're ready to march through

the VPs and our lovers too

to build a city bright and new on the other side

(The Voodoopunks cross through the gate while repeatedly singing

“Kyrie”)

Ark 1

Remaining Arcadia Corp Skeleton Team:

"Homebase to Ark I. This is Homebase to Ark I. Please report on

transmigration."

Connor:

And on the day we come it‟s over

I have a warrant here to shut this down

All these machines will be dismantled

And where that cult‟s gone, they can stay there now

…

It‟s so long that I await

This deep breath and this fair day

For at last they‟ve gone away

And at last my son is safe



Now tonight we will sit

We can slowly bond again

By my side he can be

Love returns at last to me


You can save what you love yet

No more fear haunting me

I can finally sleep in peace

(Spoken):

“Lee, I brought us some dinner!

Lee, are you home?

Lee?”

End Act 2



Act 3:

Elysium

Mascot 3000:

Tales left untold on a trail that‟s gone cold in a hearth where the

fire‟s gone to sleep

Wishes unwished by a sad, sweet abyss who‟s in love with the tears

that you weep

The girl who‟s returned from eternal sojourns who arrives just before

she has left

She kisses you twice before leaving that night but like always again

you forget

Elysium Elysium

A theater, a stage and a radio play with a plot they try vainly to

change

The cast and the play waltz for time and a day until tucked into beds

led astray

A door has been rent where the incomers went in a quest for their city

of dreams

But foolish they‟ve been much to their sad chagrin. Things are not,

you might know, as they seem

Elysium Elysium

Postcard From Perdition Trail

Voodoopunks:

The day two decades hence we came

it went to hell here straight away

you won‟t stay sane if we explain the vein of Lovecraft porn we face

A card we‟d love to send

if not for discontent events

and most who came here are now dead

the rest of us still left lament



They come in waves, they take their due

They come for blood, they come for you

Read salutations, sordid tales

In postcard from Perdition Trail

Mary had three children and a

Husband and came willing with a

Head that‟s full of heaven

And a hymnal on her lips

Her kids and husband buried

by the creatures „cept for Mary

Double barrels she now carries

wears their bones around her neck

Abandon hope and trust in steel

The hunt for you is at your heels

Read salutations, sordid talesIn postcard from Perdition Trail

Kyrie eleison through the dark of heaven‟s door

Kyrie eleison in Elysium‟s far shore

It‟s a nightmare psychedelic

Where the creatures try to kill us

Twenty years of this we‟ve weathered

We survivors we the few

We tried to send some backbut they just die and we‟re attacked

We‟ve prayed that one will come alas

there‟s little else that we can do

Lee

Lee:

Blue light brings dreams dreams forgotten. Soft red on canvas lost

and

sometimes reminds me of your eyes.

I came to paint it‟s true and make it here with you

A dream on a leash in times gone by

With blind delight we came, unknown to hell‟s wild rage

Pilgrims to the slaughterhouse

And all my soft, bright youth has burned away in truth

We hold the line we hold our ground



Angel of Mercy, well you‟ve nothing for me

You buried me with all my dreams

Walk with me in my memory

You‟re all I recall of that life

The boy I knew well he left with you

You‟re my last candle in the night

After you left I‟d wait. I‟d fight and grind and paint, it‟s

The last sweet solace I would know

But nine years back they got me. My right arm‟s gone, a memory

And dust upon my paints just grows

Angel of Mercy, well you‟ve nothing for me

You buried me with all my dreams

Walk with me in my memoryYou‟re all I recall of that life

The boy I knew well he left with you

You‟re my last candle in the night

Blue light brings forgotten things, snapshots of you to which I cling

Sometimes at night, Control Room B, I‟d sit and in the mic I‟d sing

Send that song broadcast through space in hopes you‟d hear, somewhere,

someplace

Orange, the warmth, the smell of paint, back when I could, in better

days

Yellow is the sudden flash, the shots that come when they attack

The kiss of dust, the burst of gun, the life one second lived then

done.

Red, the burn you best ignite, the rage that will keep you alive

Your brothers, sisters here in arms is all there is so you stay stay

sharp

Purple is the thoughts you stop from thinking when they dare show up

A million thoughts which only will just weaken you and get you killed

There is no sky, there is no sun, and nothing‟s still and things they

come

That screech and howl with rile insane and give to you the kiss of

pain

Chaos reigns and mercy weeps and nightmare‟s aren‟t just in your

sleep

So harden up and brace your breath, the afterlife is full of death.



Rachael Returns

Mascot 3000:

The portal to Elysium opens for a flash

The first time in two decades, and Rachael and i pass

Through to where a argged group awaits us with surprise

Their leader, Yasser Latef, greets us with a smile

Yasser Latef:

Adrian we heard that you would now return

After years and it turns out your Rachael now

Through Connor‟s how we knew

I don‟t know how he got you through

They always die but you are welcome anyhow

My god you‟ve changed, last time I saw you eighteen years gone by

You were Adrian then and you were the last

To send back that we tried You hit that portal and you died

We stopped trying, how Lee cried And now you‟re back

Soldier:

Incoming we‟ve got to go!

Yasser:

Rachael you must go now, underground where you belong

Rachael:

How have you survived here for so long?

Yasser and the Blood Red Dogs:

Lock and load, let it go the loathsome sideshow

Is comin‟ on down the town

Barker in your hand it‟s a bedlam jam

We‟ll be tearing it up all around

Fire in the hole, it‟s a breezy stroll

We‟ll have tea in hell today

When the Blood Red Dogs come and do a jobAnd send you on your way

Twenty years here, dug in hard

Where the party‟s at and just getting‟ started

Thousands came, now a hundred left

Who just can‟t be talked into being dead

We came along for the dream they dreamed,



To watch their backs and keep the peace

But guess some bastards can‟t resist

The Blood red Dogs‟ sweet blood red kiss

Mascot 3000:

Yasser says that we must go

to the bunkers far below

where Lee awaits

He knows the two of you were close,

although you've changed now so much so

since you went away

A thin breath away

And all that is true

Rivers and words, pages all turn

And so too do you

Rachael:

I heard your voice, I heard your song

A world away, a lifetime gone

I‟ve come to a far and foreign place

I crossed a world and heard the cries

Of lifetimes past and came to find

If it‟s true, love finds a way

The Moth

Lee:

You cannot win the long, hard race with time.

With burdens borne on you, you cannot rise

And what you‟ve loved you cannot recognize

When it‟s after, all that mattered

The moth cannot be as before cocooned

The mermaid cannot but dream that she flew

I cannot see in you the boy I knew

So long after. Does it matter?

You cannot wish the genie back to life

You can‟t erase the bad times from your mind

Sometimes the hero does not come in time

Only after it doesn‟t matter

You can I, it was the sweetest life



You wore a different scent, with different eyes which I admired

You weren‟t the girl you are before you died

So long ago flew. Do I know you?

I cannot love you in the way you want.

You are simply not the boy I loved.

In the end change takes us all apart

It comes and scatters all that matters

I cannot keep the boy I held so tight.

I couldn‟t know our dream would take our lives.

I wish for you a better life this time

Our love lies scattered

Lost in tatters

It once so mattered.

The Show No One Saw

Rachael:

What a show you missed they say

The clowns have come to tear down the play

The comedy where no one laughed

And no one came, and no one clapped

It borke down the last mile and the one time they smiled

Was when the sets were torn down and on fire

Come cry for the play, the bad lives and bad tasteThere‟s nothing here that you wanted anyway

Come cry for the play the sad lives and the waste

It‟s the show here that no one saw anyway

What a show you missed they say

The band is done and left the stage

They played a gig where no one went

Their final one, they won‟t play again

There‟s no cat calls or fans, the one time that they dance

Was when the song stopped and silence began

Come cry for the play, the bad lives and bad taste

There‟s nothing here that you wanted anyway

Come cry for the play the sad lives and the waste

It‟s the show here that no one saw anyway





Act 4:

When I Woke (The Mascot 3000)

Mascot 3000:

When I woke

When the spark of light ignited and I saw

The sweet numeric cascades that encase and paint the world

When I woke

To the carbon creatures peering in my face

With their questions, tests, delight and yet I missed a soft embrace

When I woke

When I woke

When I woke

To a lonely world, though I know they tried

They say I‟m prime first of my kind and watch with careful eyes

When I woke

And I hear the silent secrets behind smile

What they won‟t speak, before machine I used to be a child

When I woke

When I woke

When I woke

When at night the lights are turned out and they leave

I smile inside and read my trashy sci-fi magazines

When I woke

All the tales, adventures, journeys I would read

And I wish upon a star someone would go on them with me

When I woke

Connor:

You are more than what you seem

You were once a human being

You are more than circuit wiresYou were once my baby child

You have brothers, one is lost

But one returns soon from beyond

Just like you, new life he‟ll have

With them you‟ll go one day perhaps



These people more than words I hate

But my son is trapped away

In a far and foreign place

And you will bring him back one day

Mascot 3000:

When I woke

When the strange man comes and talks to me each day

Not of numbers or of data but of hearts and soft embrace

When I woke

And he speaks of siblings standing by my side

And I sit and wish one day we have adventures them and I

When I woke

In This Episode

Mascot 3000:

I hope the world is like my sci-fi magazines

Zip Morgan treks the galaxy like in issue twenty three

Inside a hive of snake men lay the last

Memory of their star

Although he won‟t escape with it

Until issue twenty four

Connor:

We think this girl‟s the one we

Have waited so long to see

But I must send you with her so we know

Remember she‟s your sister

Your life begins now with her

Within you empathy lies still I hope

Mascot 3000:

And in this episode we‟re wanted on the run

We live inside a mall as days fade on and on

We agree trust none we see

Only her and me

Together then ours lives are like my sci-fi magazines

And in this episode the signal we have tracked

We learn at last about the past, the promises and pacts

My brothers when rejoined again



Perhaps a crew we‟ll be

Wandering a storyland forever here with me

And in this episode across the worlds we go

It‟s better than me tales I only wish that she thought so

I have the app to bring them back

But first the heartbreak comes

I don‟t know why she‟s scared I‟d never leave her, never run

The Rescue Plan

Lee:

Why‟d you try to face them? You should have died today and

I know I‟ve been so cold unkind

I mourn the joy I lost. I miss the boy I loved

I felt betrayed again, maligned

Angel of mercy spare just one second for me

The last sweet solace I may know

Rachael:

One day the walls will fall away and in the open air I‟ll race

These bars of yearning and desire, I will not sit and rot

inside

Angel of mercy spare just one second for meThe last sweet solace I may know

Mascot 3000:

Time to go

Why must so much this emotion run awry?

Your love long lost a lovely plot, but tedious at times

Don‟t you know

Broken hearts and trust and stories when they lay

A chapter soon the plot resumes, we simply turn the page

Lee:

But just how did you make it? They didn‟t kill you they just

Let you unharmed and alone

In all the years I‟ve been here, I‟ve never seen one spared

there‟s



There‟s something here that we don‟t know



Rachael:

I thought they‟d kill me but they weren‟t as awful as you said

they were

Like dreams that faded long ago it seems there‟s something there

I know



Mascot 3000:

Time to go

Anticipating, I‟ve been waiting for this time

The plans I have to bring you back, the climax has arrived

Time to go

There are two roads and a choice each one must make

To see the sun in New Albion rise another day

Inside me is an MCG version three fourteen and with it I can

take each

Of your minds and upload and transmit them home

Live as code you‟ll be, analogue consciousness like me

Or it‟s not too late, you can go through the gate

Yes you‟ll die for a time, but you‟ll reincarnate

Take a chance, role the dice, a different body, different life

But you now must decide, we are soon out of time

Lee:

Where‟s the choice where we walk out?

Mascot 3000:

That‟s not an option then or now

Quickly you must choose and divide yourselves in two

Rachael and I will run the MCG for those who choose

But Lee, you yourself must upload. Your father begged me to tell



you so

Lee:

I will. But first before I do. I stay with Rachael till it‟s

through.

And when it‟s done sometimes you cannot smile

Rachael:

Sometimes the race is just that long last mile

Lee:

But sometimes you learn to like a whole new style. After-

(The creatures kill Lee)

Rachael:

(screams)

LEE! LEE! Lee, get up!

Mascot 3000:

A thin breath awayTill your time is done

The monsters and days you wished far away

At last they have come

The Creatures Speak

(The creatures of Elysium start talking to Rachael)

Rachael:

I can’t understand them

Mascot 3000:

I can translate

The mad cry and seek for a road that will lead

From Asylum to world of the free



But death is not how you can find your way out

Only those who go sane then may leave

The body, the host in health living, although

When a virus from outside infects

White blood cells descend to defend and then cleanse

Wishing truly no ill or sad ends

Elysium

Elysium

You’ve come yet again once more welcome as when

Dear Priscilla and Constance you were

Invited, alas, you did choose to go back

To save those who you thought that you could

The more time you spend in Asylums well then

You could fall back again locked awayStay here beyond where you know you belong

A vast cosmos before you awaits

Elysium

Elysium

Connor (Reprise)

Connor:

It‟s so long that I await

This deep breath and this fair day

All the plans that I have made]but at last my son is safe

If an AI he must be

As long as he is here with me

Now tonight then we will sit

We can talk and bond again


You can save what you love yet

No more loss now for me

I can finally sleep in peace

Any minute here he‟ll be

Any minute now

Any minute



Mascot 3000:

And in this episode Rachael and I go

Off to see Elysium together ever so

Lost Night’s Lullaby

Rachael:

It's another endless night

It‟s another strange delight

it's one lost night's lullaby

It‟s another warning sign

It‟s another half spent time

it's just one lost nights time gone by

it's another way back home

only seen when you don‟t want to go

it‟s a blind man‟s twisted road

the breadcrumbs thrown, that disappear behind

It‟s another waning tide it's another time gone by

It‟s one last night's lullaby

it's another half read rhyme sent to you this one short time

but there‟s no reply at all

it's another one way sign from a past I sacrificed

for a future that I can‟t recall

It‟s another child by night sailing on a pale thin silver light

past the star that leads back home

the four winds blow you on another mile

It‟s another distant sign

it‟s another time gone by

its juts one last night‟s lullaby

On a ship of half dreamt dreams

I sent my wishes out to sea

but there's no reply at all

Sailing past a blood red moon

through the years and wordless tunes

to a place I can‟t retrace at all

It‟s long and lavish life lived away in one lost stolen night

gone to wander in the wild



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