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Lloyd:
And so Jacqueline and Thomas step out into a city lain to waste. Everyone in sight is swaying mindlessly to the hypnotic song of the dead.
The only sane people they find are Constance and her father John who look happy and serene. Having not seen each other in years, John and Jackie, brother and sister reunite.

John:
We never call on birthdays

Jackie:
The haze and roads forgotten
The lost left, wave behind

John:
I know, i know we were never all that close
We never talked, just pleasantries and lines

Jackie:
We never call on birthdays

You lost her

John:
You lost her

Jackie:
And i’m so sorry

John:
I’m so sorry
The hole goes

Jackie:
So far down

John:
It’s true, it’s true, you had a language i never knew

Jackie:
You were always kind, when it really counts

John:
We never call on birthdays

Jackie:
You’re there at the beginning

John:
Then gone as, as we live our lives

Jackie:
I know, i know, i couldn’t be what you needed most

John:
You were always kind in the darkest of times

Jackie and John:
We never call on birthdays

Thomas:
Constance i am truly glad we found you

Constance:
I’m glad they let you go, they were wrong
Everyone’s obsessed with control and dominance

Thomas:
How have you survived up here so long?

Constance:
We walked and we talked and we
We walked my father and me

Thomas:
You strolled about in this… in this apocalypse?

Constance:
We walked and we talked so long

Thomas:
Why haven’t you succumbed to this song?

Constance:
It’s like a noisy tale with hooks and dreams in which i do not care to be

John:
The city is lost it’s time to retreat
Soon all will sccumb to this plague you’ve unleashed
At least we’re together, now that it’s done
The only thing for us, we all now must run

Jacqueline:
Because we’ve been possessed we are immune
John’s been mutilated, reconstructed so he’s safe but
Constance there’s no reason why for you

There’s something in your eye, something happened this last night
That changed you in some way i cannot tell
But i have doomed them all i have caused this city’s fall
And all that’s left to do is run

Thomas:
Run, run and taste the rain, run from mistakes you’ve made
Run, run away

Constance:
We will not be running

Thomas:
Constance don’t go near him, if you hear you’ll disappear then…

Constance:
Sh. Listen.

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from The New Albion Radio Hour, A Dieselpunk Opera, released May 20, 2013
Featuring Oliver Marsh, Courtney Ellis and Lauren Osborn

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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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