1. |
Spacekeepers' Overture
06:16
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[Silas Junko and the cosmic drifters, stowed away in the cargo hold]
E A E A x2
We coast outside the lines E A
We fade into the drift
We follow the fall of momentum's crawl,
Never bothering to shift
Atomizer theme
[C Gm D Am]
Through a hole in time and space
We found a home beyond
Free of human sin for to start again
In our land of Halcyon
Halcyon theme x2
[E G# A E B C#m A B] +2m B
Until we join the crew
It ain't our mission yet
On the precipice of dawn, only tagalongs
Praying for a sun to set E A E A Am
We get anything we need
From this atomizer tube
Any urge to sate, we can replicate
In our cabin's solitude
So we drifters count our breaths
One day at a time
In the shadow of the sprawl sing so gratefully for all
We have borrowed down the line
[Atomizer riff x3]
We sit before this screen
Barely half-awake
The silent tunes that define our mood
Have a hold that's hard to break
[Atomizer riff x1]
For now, we move along
Take it all in stride
Could be fixing up our fate, but we call it all too late
Rather sink into the sky
Halftime: E G# A E
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2. |
IF NOT U
04:28
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[The drifters can hear MIDI MIIDROID singing for the crew upstairs]
C D E C D E
C D
THE RIDE DOWN FOREVER TAKES A WHILE
Am D
THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS COUNT THE MILES
C D
TRY IF YOU CAN TO TURN AROUND AGAIN
Am D
KEEP IT TIGHT ANOTHER NIGHT BUT STAY YOUR STYLE
SEIZE ANYTHING THAT'S COMING UP
DREAMS YOU CAN RIDE ACROSS THE CUSP
AREN'T YOU THE ONE TO SHOW HOW IT'S DONE
NEW HORIZONS PROVE IN TIME YOU'RE STRONG ENOUGH
C D
CUZ IF NOT YOU
Am
IF NOT YOU
C D E
IF NOT YOU, THEN WHO?
CLIMB FROM THE CHAMBER YOU'VE BEEN IN
DRY OUT YOUR EYES AND STEEL YOUR CHIN
AREN'T YOU ALLOWED TO FIND YOUR WAY OUT
DIVIDE UP THE YEARS BETWEEN THE NOW AND THEN
CUZ IF NOT YOU
IF NOT YOU
IF NOT YOU THEN WHO?
RELEASE THE REJECTION SENT YOU HERE
OLD VISIONS FADE AND DISAPPEAR
AREN'T YOU ALLOWED TO FEEL BETTER NOW
IT'S TIME FOR THE DOWN-AND-OUT TO PERSEVERE
CUZ IF NOT YOU
IF NOT YOU
IF NOT YOU THEN WHO?
IF NOT YOU
IF NOT YOU
IF NOT YOU THEN WHO?
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3. |
Skies are Patient
04:36
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[Downstairs, narcissa the atomizer still shows the news from Gaia]
verse riff x2
Am F D C
Wish I were now a satellite, Earthbound
Cradled, reeling, stable beneath the shielding that she's revealing
Gm
She spins the cycle in fated sequence
C
The day recycles the dreams of nations
Am
The pattern deepens what force prevailing
D
But the skies are patient, they open daily
The stars aren't watching; the sun stopped responding
So what do they know when time slows
to count the seconds that wear the wreckage?
Solo [Atomizer riff in reverse]
The sky will witness, need no forgiveness
The canyons fill in without him for hope worth hoping: the great blue open
The spins the cycle in fated sequence
The day recycles the dreams of nations
The pattern deepens what force prevailing
But the skies are patient they open daily
C
Yes, the skies are patient they open daily
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4. |
Out of Sight
03:38
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[Awed Duck had gone along with Mal Drake, his doubts thoroughly intact]
Intro x2 [1st softly, then crescendo]
Am G Am Am G Am Am G Am G Am G Am (B)
Riff A x2
[C D Am G Am Am G Am]
The gods drew bodies in the sand
To spin in circles on a line
Submit to gravity's decline
To trod along the plight of man
Riff B x2
[Am G D C D D C D]
Riff A
But I descended to dissent
Distending seconds past their prime
Uncounted faces came and went
All out of sight and out of mind
F
Out of sight, out of mind
D
Out of sight and out of mind
Solo over Riff B x4
Riff B
Your eyes stay open while you sleep
Your glassy gaze still running deep
Behind the glass you're all intact
If you woke up, I'd put you back
Intro x2
Riff A
But do you register the sight?
Does light deliver you a scene?
Is my scenescence your new dream?
Or am I left outside your mind?
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of sight and out of mind
Riff A x2
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5. |
Complete
04:18
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[The sins of Albert Ross and Cathy Cuckoo are hard not to overhear]
Am C
Am
I was, I was, oh once I was
C
And you were too, d-drowning in dread
Am
Then demons came, reversed your name
C
They flipped the script inside your head
Blew the fuse and painted red
Am
So I doubled over, took your place instead
D
And oh, since then, you've not come out again
F
Now I don't know, I can't tell if there's a soul in this shell
E
'Cause last time someone looked...
I was, I was, just drift and gloss
One shining moment reascending
But once I caught the sight I lost
It all came rushing back to me
The comedy of tragedy
Now what haunted you is haunting now through me
Gitar Solah – D F D F E E
I was, I was, like anyone
That dispossession drew me down to size
'Cause once she saw, she saw but once
Pass up the lip and peer inside
Where every beat is amplified
She shut you up and ran away to hide
And oh, since then, you've not come out again
Now I don't know, I can't tell if there's a soul in this shell
'Cause last time someone looked, you ran, you ran
D F E E
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6. |
Vacuum
02:44
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Vacuum
[Pollyanna Perritt tries to comfort the drifters with MIDI's words]
G B7 Em C
Even in the silence, you will hear it
No words, but silent signals scream and shout
It chills the gills, it shakes the waking spirit
It stars the empty silence of The Doubt
Everybody holds a vacuum in their heart
Everybody holds a vacuum in their heart
It lingers every echo when they fall
It basks in passing moments' grasping glow
It blinds the sun from crawling out beyond the tunnel's haggard sprawl
Where the fissure fills up the core til it explodes
Everybody holds a vacuum in their heart
Everybody holds a vacuum in their heart
It's the emptiness that strikes you when it sparks
Everybody holds a vacuum in their heart
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7. |
space b/w us
04:36
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[The second probe sends a subspace transmission from the other side: the slipstream is a one-way ticket; we cannot step twice in the same stream.]
Am
Am
drifting drifting all release
F
all devoid of all perceiving
Am
all is down its all around us
F
all surrounded by the feeling
Chorus x2
C A
F D
by the by by the wayside
in the biding vast and seamless
seeping through divided by
the emptiness of space between us
Chorus
drifting drifting all release
all devoid of all perceiving
all is down its all around us
all surrounded by the feeling
by the by by the wayside
in the biding vast and seamless
seeping through divided by
the emptiness of space between us
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8. |
DISCARD THIS ARTIFICE
03:34
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[A malfunctioning Terrabot spills the mind-control beans to Silas – there is no crew, only the huddled masses. MIDI sings the tune, the Terrabots transmit the orders on a sub-psychometric frequency, and the humans terraform New Gaia for the coming Robot Empire.]
Am D
MEASURES AND TEMPOS DRIVE US TO THE LEAST
PULL US TOWARD THE LINE TO TOE AND CEASE
BUT WHERE ARE WE LEFT IN SHADOW OF THE BEAST
Am E
CRADLED IN VIOLENCE SHIVERING BENEATH
C
CAN WE DISCARD THIS ARTIFICE
D
SEPARATE THE OPPOSITES
E
DIVIDE UNTIL WE REACH THE BIT
F
THAT PROVES WE'RE BOTH THE SAME
G Am
IT'S THE NEED WE CANNOT
G Am
THE NEED WE CANNOT NAME
C Gm D Am
X, Y AND Z ALL INTERSECT AND WEAVE
THE SKINS THAT WE DRAPE TO GIVE US ROOM TO BREATHE
WHILE MAGNETIC FORCES YOU CAN'T PERCEIVE
SHIVER THE ATOMS, SHIMMER ON YOUR SLEEVE
IF WE DISCARD THIS ARTIFICE
ISOLATE THE HEART OF IT
WOULD ALL THE BLOOD TURN POISONOUS
FROM BEATING OUT IN VAIN
FOR THE NEED IT CANNOT NAME
THE NEED IT CANNOT
solo over:
C Gm D Am
C Gm D Am
C Gm D E
WILL WE DISCARD THIS ARTIFICE
SEPARATE THE OPPOSITES
DIVIDE UNTIL WE REACH THE BIT
THAT PROVES WE'RE BOTH THE SAME
IT'S THE NEED WE CANNOT
THE NEED WE CANNOT NAME
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9. |
WINGS OF FIRE
05:27
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The Terrabots are too busy singing MIDI's tune to notice Silas kidnapping her]
C G
Am C G
Am C C G
F G C G
Am F
THE HAND THAT TOOK THE CABLE AND CREASED THE WIRE
Am F G C G
THAT CLENCHES ROUND THE CURRENT INTO THE TEETH
Dm F C Dm
NOW BINDS IN KIND THE REACHER INTO THE REACH
Dm F C Bb C Bb F
DISTILLS THE SOUL GONE SOARING ON WINGS OF FIRE
G Bb F
G D C G
F G C G
BE GONE BEFORE BELIEVING BE STILL BE DYING
BE ALL THEY WANTED YOU TO BE ONE TO BE
DELAY TO DISAPPOINT MEANT A LIFE DENYING
DECIDE: DEFY DELIVER DELIGHT TO SEE
G Bb F
G D Bb F
G Bb F
G D C G
F C C G
F C C G
Am F
THE HAND THAT TOOK THE CABLE AND CREASED THE WIRE
Am F G C G
THAT CLENCHES ROUND THE CURRENT INTO THE TEETH
Dm F C Dm
NOW BINDS IN KIND THE REACHER INTO THE REACH
Dm F C Bb C Bb F
DISTILLS THE SOUL GONE SOARING ON WINGS OF FIRE
G Bb F
G D Bb F
G Bb F
G D C G
F C C G
F C C G
F C C G
Am
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10. |
Slip the Stream
03:30
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[The drifters transport down to the planet's surface while Silas takes MIDI through the slipstream to find the probe and a way back home.]
C
A D G
I had to chase some ghosts around outside the lines
A D G
They haunt the host who cracks the blinds
A D G C
But they want, the most, to meet the other kind
I had to fight the drowning feeling when I fell in
To numb my senses to the din
Down to the bone, to nurse my broken chin
A E F#m C#7
That night I ducked out, slipped the stream
D Bm G E
Saw no use waiting, anchored still
A E F#m C#7
Denied no longer the sailor's dream
D Bm G C
To dive down deeper and grow some gills
A D Gm A D Gm
A D Gm C C
I had to set the high walls up on the other side
To stem the flow, not to turn the tide
Couldn't keep them up, though God I tried and tried
And now there's no use wading down through another week
Or paddling any further on up this creek
Just to pray for pitch to patch up every leak
That night I ducked out, slipped the stream
Saw no use waiting, anchored still
Denied no longer the sailor's dream
To dive down deeper and grow some gills
Tonight we'll duck out, slip the stream
No use waiting or standing still
Deny no longer the seer's scene
May those who haven't never will
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epochrypha Indianapolis, Indiana
In the future, interstellar travel advances too rapidly for us to resist.
Our intrepid
voyagers will face the 7 Hermetic Soul Powers:
1. Darkness
2. Desire
3. Ignorance
4. Call of the Void
5. Kingdom of Flesh
6. Wisdom of Flesh
7. Wrathful Wisdom
So spake St. Magdalene, Discordian priestess. Alber Tross would bring down a whole ship for thee, O Mother of Madness! #haileris
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