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An Atompunk Opera, The New Albion Guide To Analogue Consciousness

by Paul Shapera

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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 whipsers 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
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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 pen your 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 One day the walls will fall away 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 world With 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 One day the walls will fall away And in the open air i race
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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 guide the 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 arms scared 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
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Rachael: Day by day by day by day Day by day by day by day Deep inside we hide away As day fades into day by day Mascot 3000: Day by day by day by day At so together here we stay Day by day by day by day You and i, we will find our way Deep inside we hide away 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 Echer wheel The crowds and children chatter and only credit runs wild round through 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 lunch Meander round the moebius which marks your march from crib to grave With sales and special sweetners that you’ll love to need and need to crave Come where the wild uncertain in the end is drugged and tamed And hide, hide away. And hide, hide away (hears staticy radio song) Rachael: Day by day by day by day And still i hear that song that plays Day by day by day by day The one that’s all in my head they say Deep inside we hide away And so my mind will slip away As day fades into day by day Mascot 3000: Day by day by day by day Day by day by day by day Deep inside we hide away 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 And hide, hide away. And hide, hide 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 far away where we both can be And i love you, love you, so far gone 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
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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 Til 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 pray that 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 day someday 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 again all 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 away and 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
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The 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
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A2 S2 Kyrie 04:33
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 shore Kyrie 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 tracks The city council’s now set to cut its funding but yet Arcadia is full of tricks and traps
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A2 S3 Connor 04:18
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 scemes you can't believe computers made from human beings and the strange stuff they would need babies, fetuses and things As your time spins and sets what you love you can forget this i hope, i believe it's insomnia fantasy 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 sighed and to their dark schemes gave our child All those years ago i left Amber's done fine, movied 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 As your time spins and sets what you love you can forget this i hope, i believe it's insomnia fantasy
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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: 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 to wish of a wish you dreamed Of a far away where we both can be And i love you, love you, so far gone 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 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 to wish of a wish you dreamed Of a far away where we both can be And i love you, love you, so far gone I’ll take you far away from desperate lives on day Beyond the crumbling sheds of souless, dying men For 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
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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 thus when Project Elysium again is restored they will ascend VPs: 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
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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
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A2 S7 Ark 1 02:30
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 As your time spins and sets 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?”
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The 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
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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 tales In 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 back but they just die and we’re attacked We’ve prayed that one will come alas there’s little else that we can do
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A3 S3 Lee 06:46
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 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 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 ignight, 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 youo 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.
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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 job And 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
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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 tiems 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 Yoou 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.
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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 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 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 Come, come get me. Come get me. Come, come get me. Come get me. 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
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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 wires You 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
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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
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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 fal 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 me The 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 unhamred 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 Angel of mercy spare just one second for me The last sweet solace i may 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 Angel of mercy spare just one second for me The last sweet solace i may 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 til 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… Rachael: (screams) LEE! LEE! Lee, get up! Mascot 3000: A thin breath away Til your time is done The monsters and days you wished far away At last they have come
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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 away Stay here beyond where you know you belong A vast cosmos before you awaits Elysium Elysium
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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 As your time spins and sets 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
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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 lullabye … 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 its another time gone by its juts one last nights lullabye … 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 time steals the child the final chime gone by it’s another endless song it’s another memory gone it's just one lost night’s lullabye
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The Mascot 3000: So thirty souls from the beyond return to dear New Albion As a new computer speicies but The Voodoopunks my friends, well they never rise again their tale i'm quite afraid is done though i love you all my dears, i'm afraid the time is here to depart the city we all love there are other places more on this world to explore and the time to see them now has come here's to the tales of ghosts and card games civil wars, soldiers and soirees talking mice, lines of red haired gangsters, and dead things with which we play so say our goodbyes to this dear city will we return here, who's to say? We'll meet you next time across the ocean the future my friends, is on its way

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released July 29, 2014

Featuring Lauren Osborn (as Rachael)
Kayleigh McKnight (as the Mascot 3000)
Oliver Marsh (as Connor)

with special guest Darrel Whitney as Yaser Latef

This is the third album in The New Albion Trilogy. Please check out the first one:The Dolls of New Albion, A Steampunk Opera and The New Albion Radio Hour, A Dieselpunk Opera

More info and story information at the blog: steampunkopera.wordpress.com

Guitar by Matthew Broyles

Cover by Pixelwayve

Written and Produced by Paul Shapera

Special thanks to Tess and Glenn Osborn for their wonderful hospitality.

An Atompunk Opera is dedicated to Mark Swetz and Maja Ninkovic. Both literally changed my life and without either of whom the city of New Albion would never have existed.

Covers for individual acts by Sarah de Buck

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Cama’s attempt to commune with higher beings failed; she only found Decadent Dottie. Together they roamed, indulging in dangerous forms of psycho-neural self-exploration which Cama hoped would present the key to her people’s further evolution. It only led to her destroying her people so that one of their pets could evolve. She sat in her former civilization's rubble and listened to Paul Shapera. ... more

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