Narrator:
Mining Planet 9A is where poor Jenna lands
and her days are now spent working
breaking rocks with pick and hand
Compulsory Workforce Recruits:
We fell down Jacob’s ladder to a land made of nothing but rock and our sweat
We fell down Jacob’s ladder and we won’t see our home see it ever again
The work goes on forever and the days they extend and extend and extend
The memory of our love is all we have here in the end
Yery:
That’s the new girl
Cery:
It’s the new girl
Cery & Yery:
Hey new girl, we know that the first days are rough
but we’ll need to introduce you to everyone
We’re the Messianic Twins
but we’ll tell you about ourselves later
You’re in the bunker with us you see
This is Bunker 23
Cery:
Although we work all day just mining, sweating breaking endless rock
Yery:
and they beat us if we slow down, and we work until we drop
Cery:
and if you go too far into the mines, they say you don’t come back
Yery:
and the few that do their minds are not intact and they have snapped
Cery:
But I’m Cery
Yery:
and I’m Yery
Cery & Yery:
We’re the Messianic Twins
and we work the mines until the day is done
and depression and despair greet every day just like the sun
We believe deliverance will surely come
one day when the mining here is done
Yery:
Jes here also lives with us. Hey Jes, come on say hi
Jes:
The only thing that I look forward to is hoping I will die
Cery:
She’s a revolutionary. You’ve heard about the Qeeez?
Yery:
They disposed the royal family in a bloody coup you see
Cery:
Jess was part of that but now she’s stuck here
Yery:
Look who’s here
Cery:
Oh wait
There’s a robot who lives with us
Yery:
L3X is his name
Cery:
L3X can be quite sharp but you must catch him in the day
Yery:
At night he has some drug that takes his mind real far away
Jes:
Static. Robots get high off static.
Cery & Yery:
L3X is in his corner there, hey L3X why don’t you come
L3X:
…ooh yeah…..
Cery:
Well, it seems he’s tanked
Yery:
He’s totaled
Cery:
Boomed out
Yery:
Plastered on his drugs
Cery & Yery:
We believe deliverance will surely come
one day when the mining here is done
Yery:
The last one in our bunker here, the creature Crimson Rose
Crimson Rose:
I am pleased to meet you, your stay will not be too long I hope
How I miss my sisters badly, but the one thing I do find
is that the beatings take the loneliness away from out your mind
Cery & Yery:
So don’t stray too far into the mines and keep your chin on up
Depression will not help us overcome
We’re so glad to see a new face in this hell where we’ve succumbed
We believe deliverance will surely come
one day when the mining here is done
Compulsory Workforce Recruits:
We fell down Jacob’s ladder to a land made of nothing but rock and our sweat
We fell down Jacob’s ladder and we won’t see our home see it ever again
Work goes on forever and the days they extend and extend and extend
The memory of our love is all we have here in the end
.
Rainu:
Recruit you must rise; you can’t lie there or I
must abide, I must beat you, or be penalized
Please just comply do not make me chastise you
or strike, traumatize, we are not the bad guys
Jes:
Kill me, do, I want you to. I cannot go on; I just want to give up
Jenna:
Jes no, please don’t, sir let her go, she just needs a break, I will get her back up
Jenna:
Jes, please stay don’t go away
Jes:
My heart has been broken; my will has been drained
Jenna:
Try talking to me of better days
Your time as a rebel, before this dark place
Jes:
I had me a lover, she worked as a maid in the palace,
I thought she was true to her friends
But then the rebellion, they tortured her, and I can’t blame her but still
sold me out in the end
They broke her spark, she broke my heart
and now I’m in this land without hope for my life
But still, you’re kind. I’ll try to rise
to make it another long day in the mines
Compulsory Workforce Recruits:
We fell down Jacob’s la ----ladder ----ladder ----ladder
Jes:
They broke her spark, she broke my heart
and now I’m in this land without hope for my life
But still, you’re kind. I’ll try to rise
to make it another long day in the mines
Jenna:
What was that just happened?
L3X:
Wait you noticed it?
Jenna:
I did
L3X:
I didn’t think carbon-based life forms could perceive the time blips
Jenna:
What?
L3X:
Time anomalies, little hiccups that occur
It’s the kelys that we’re mining, oddities irregular
How can you perceive it or know the language that we speak?
Jenna:
My people all have fairy blood, it does these magic things
L3X:
There’s no such thing as magic
Jenna:
Well, yes there is
L3X:
Uh, no there’s not, but I saw you helping Jes so you’re all right where I’m concerned
Rainu:
Recruits to your tasks, I think my bosses alas
may have noticed the fact that the work is delayed
Your time it has passed, it will be beatings en masse
unless the work hastens fast, so let’s pick up the pace
.
Cery:
That day was surely brutal
Yery:
But at least now it is done
Cery:
Hey new girl, I have seen you talk to objects, what is up?
Jenna:
Well, I worry they have feelings. What if they just want to be
next to something else then where you put them down you see
Jes:
You ask for their opinions?
L3X:
Do they answer?
Jenna:
No, they don’t, so I have to guess my best and hope I’m doing what they want
Crimson Rose:
When you break the rocks do you feel bad for them, feel guilty?
Jenna:
Well, maybe all the pebbles trapped within want to be free
L3X:
You’re a weird one and I like it
Yery:
You will fit in here just fine
Cery, Yery, Jes, L3X, & Crimson Rose:
We’re all we have inside this horrid slum
Cery:
We’re so glad to see a new face in this hell where we’ve succumbed
Cery, Yery, Jes, L3X, & Crimson Rose:
We believe deliverance will surely come
one day when the mining here is done
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