1. |
Across The Milky Way
01:08
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Across the Milky Way
With stardust in her eyes
Circling round the universe
Is where my true love lies
The formless void of night
I whisper just a word
“I wish that you’d come back to me”
But I don’t know if she heard
A shooting star may seem too far
But it’d take me out to where you are
Circling round the universe
Is where my true love lies
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2. |
Rocket Summer
11:19
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One minute, it was winter
We blinked and saw it melt
Snow fell into steam
Returning love we once had felt
The words passed around on the lips of the plain, here and gone before the sun set that night…
Rocket summer
Rocket summer, oh
Rocket summer
Rocket summer
One minute, we were frozen
Our hearts had turned to stone
The rain came all at once
And we knew we weren’t alone
The warm desert air took the frost from our eyes, with a flooding of reverence and fright…
Rocket summer
Rocket summer, oh
Rocket summer
Rocket summer
Seven million miles, rocket fever
We’d like somebody to shake our hands
Never before has a man from earth
Taken a step in the Martian sands
Do you believe me? Here’s how it is—
What are you waiting for, what do you want?
Everything’s in order, even the agreement.
How do you mean, agreement for what?
This is no celebration
No party, no earthly delegation
They locked the door, do you realize
Darkened skin and golden eyes
They’re not the Earth Men
They shower us with adoration
But think we’re some hallucination
A Martian trick of the mind
There is no future for our kind
No future for Earth Men
Rocket summer
Rocket summer, oh
Rocket summer
Rocket summer
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3. |
Ylla's Song
03:15
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Take up your mat, your burdens of earth
For only in song will you know your true worth
You player of bells, you singer of tales
On the seas of your life you’re the master of the sails
How time flies (how time flies)
How seasons change the summer sky
How time flies (how time flies)
I dreamt you’d arrived, eyes blue as the dawn
With a glimmer of light you were here and then gone
I felt I was there, so real it seemed
Though I called out to you, it was nothing but a dream
How time flies (how time flies)
How nature sings her lullaby
How time flies (how time flies)
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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound
And frogs in the pools singing at night
And wild plum trees in tremulous white
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree
If mankind perished utterly
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone
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5. |
Fifty Earth Miles
08:42
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He steps into the street, not knowing where to go
Only knowing who he'll find
And nothing lights his way, it was so long ago
That the poison broke his mind
You loved him so much you couldn't tell him the truth
Just let him slip away into the flashback of youth
It's fifty earth miles to home
And he's traveling alone
He'll get there when he gets there
On his own
Your meeting on the hill, your passing in the night
It took you by surprise
The deadness and the hurt, a mental parasite
No light behind his eyes
He gave you a voice and you gave him a chance
Now he's the third observer in a two-person dance
He's fifty earth miles from home
And he's traveling alone
He'll get there when he gets there
On his own
Like a satellite I circled you, as close as you'd allow
The same side of different coins, though we're in separate pockets now
And are there any friends out there who are flying past the moon
'Cause I could really use somebody, and I hope to see you soon
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6. |
The Lonely One
04:17
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Beyond the reach of change,
We changed this land
This new frontier so strange
We now command
Though you have not seen him,
You will love him nonetheless
Though you never spoke our tongues
You will kneel and confess
It runs in my blood, now I'm holding the gun
And you're on the other end
Do you understand what the Earth Men have planned
Are you enemy or friend?
I came into this world sky-clad and curled
And I'll die against the soil
This ruinous loam which we now call home
Makes my blood begin to boil
I am the lonely one
I am the great demise
I am the chance you seek
And the light that leaves your eyes
I am the waning moon
I am the savior all
I'll be returning soon
And you'll never hear the call
I am the lonely one
I am the great demise
I am the chance you seek
And the light that leaves your eyes
I am the waning moon
I am the savior all
I'll be returning soon
And you'll never hear the call
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Smoke overseas turns to wind in the willows
And it brings me back to the time
When I heard your voice carry themes so magnetic
Playing on and on to my heart
Taking a chance on today ‘cause you want to
Giving everything for tonight
When I’m with you I hear all the sounds from the planets
Playing on and on to my heart
It dries the tears of your starlight mind
To sing your song to humankind
Messenger carry your song of salvation
Round mountains and rust-covered plains
Taking your music to all of creation
Until you are all that remains
“Love one another, do good to the earth”
Your scriptures rang out like a psalm
Aren’t we long overdue for a rebirth
And a prevalent season of calm?
The pure one, ascended
Disciple defended
Where you are, I am free
The guardian, arisen
Released from your prison
Where you are, I am free
We looked for messiahs in the mirror
We found our pariahs to revere
The prophets tell us when to dance
And we do so
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8. |
Moon Interlude
01:53
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9. |
Nuclear Winter
14:42
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Grasping tightly to the heel of a song you once could sing
As it leaves this world behind, spreading incandescent wings
Flying onward toward some notional tomorrow
If I summon up the words, if I ever hear that tune
I would gather all my strength and sing it soft to you
The walls are falling, now there’s no one here but sorrow
November came too soon
The death of the moon
One last breath
There’s nothing left
They never said it would end like this
But you were prepared
Not flinching nor scared
At dawn you flew into the abyss
The war had begun
And then there were none
Your family
What travesty
The world slowly burning alive
The deafening
Misreckoning
Judgement for those who survive
How long we’ve waited for the last word
The locusts swarmed in
Oh where have they been
On the edge of wrath not yet been incurred
I am become death
The taker of breath
The watchers cry
As rockets fly
The world scorching cold as the snow
Our wires crossed
This permafrost
Judgement’s absolute killing blow
The siren call of sadness, so difficult to ignore
The sudden squall of madness sends all our sons to war
How we spend our days doing anything but care
On this beautiful world we all must share
Creator of our kind, the Mother of all things
She turns our coldest winter into the hallowed spring
After we depart saying nothing but a prayer
On this beautiful world we all must share
We live entire lives never knowing why we cry
Barely able to survive in this abstract cosmic lie
The star emerges, breaking daylight, then there’s nothing there
On this beautiful world we all must share
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10. |
Telephone
02:14
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I'd give Saturn's rings to you
If you would be my moon
We could be together
On a planet made for two
I used to love it when you'd call me
Call me on the telephone
I used to love it when you'd call me
Call me on the telephone
But now I think that I was wrong
It's not what it seems
I can't believe my nightmare
Used to be my dream
I used to love it when you'd call me
Call me on the telephone
I used to love it when you'd call me
Call me on the telephone
I used to love it when you'd call me
Call me on the telephone
I used to love it when you'd call me
But now I wanna be alone
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11. |
The Million-Year Picnic
07:18
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As the blue sunrise came up over the hill
They looked upon the barren field of dust
And father said “we do now what we will”
While mother said “we do now what we must”
The river’s twists and turns reflect our history
Its rolling and its running over stones
The planets in the sky evoke a mystery
We’ve lost since our red planet turned to bones
The cities and the towns have all been buried
‘Neath hundreds, maybe thousands, maybe more
Of years of sand and bloodshed that has carried
The bodies of the living to the shore
Reflected in the water of the river
I hoped to find some skeleton below
I shed a tear as I began to shiver
I was the only Martian I would know
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12. |
Old Rover
01:24
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From the Chryse Planitia to Nepenthe
Olympus Mons looms on the way
No one to talk to for miles as you walk to
The rivers just outside Lunae
Crossing the Acheron Fracture
Singing my tune unto thee
I'm just an old rover whose good days are over
So won't you come rovin' with me?
I'm just an old rover whose good days are over
So won't you come rovin' with me?
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