1. |
Doors Closing
03:02
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[ENSEMBLE]
Doors closing
Voices erased
Politicians posing
Entire lives become a waste
Floors caving
Choices destroyed
No savior saving
Everyone is so annoyed
Why the fuck do you think we live here?
You think we love the subway?
No — we like the bus
Why would anyone want to be here?
Four rats in a trap
The world's at war
At war with us
Doors closing
Don't question how
Painkiller dosing
Would be a welcome change right now
More's the pity
Just to be alive
This life ain't pretty
It's a bother to survive
History's a nasty trick
Your parents play on you
It makes you sneeze, it makes you sick
The lies they swear, the lies they swear, the lies they swear are true
Doors closing
Trapped on the train
Bulldozers dozing
Life dripping down the drain
Time running
Out for us all
The enemy's coming — shh, the enemy's coming — shh, the enemy's coming — shh
And we will rise and fight
And we will rise and fight
And we will rise and fight
Or else we fall
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2. |
Exposition
02:46
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[AMY]
Today's agenda consists of two acts
These are the facts
The state of Texas seceded the land
Then declared war
Now in Chicago we fight
For the highest of stakes
How badly they want
The water we've got
In the Great Lakes
The coast was flooded and Canada burned
Nothing was learned
When President Trump assembled her troops
People said "Oops"
We who went underground
Are the fortunate ones
We live in a cave to drown out the sound
To hide from their guns
In every war there's a bad guy
And it's never ever me
So please don't bring no trouble by
Just let us live our lives free
Of Texas
My home Chicago the city I love
Its chances are few
The war's unhealthy so tell me what should
A pacifist do
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3. |
Season of the Ignorant
03:23
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[KEVIN]
This world is an experiment
Unfortunately failed
Though you and I have railed
For reason
Emotion's an impediment
To seeing what is true
It's the season of the ignorant
When common sense is overcome
As armies are obedient
And faith is blind and deaf and dumb
This war is an embarrassment
In a field of toxic waste
While you and I are chaste
As virgins
And all our pain and sorrow is
So slowly going numb
To the emergence of the ignorant
The day when folly's tried and true
When Texans are belligerent
I know, I know, what else is new?
Oh-oh-oh-oh
What else did you expect
But another raving sect
With a private armory?
Oh we were fools
To think our differences would cease
That we could somehow live in peace
And perfect harmony
Unless we find the antidote
Then history is through
And we become the new
Medieval
Stupidity has won the vote
And power is bestowed
On the evil of the ignorant
When trouble came, we missed the call
From people smart as elephants
And on their way to end it all
Oh no
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4. |
Junk Man
02:55
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[BRIANA & AMY]
He's a wizard with a crowbar
A ninja with a big black bag
And when the streets are silent (you know, at night)
He goes on a junkyard jag
He will break into a highrise
Climb up to the fortieth floor
Pick a locked apartment
And he's breaking down the metal door
Find a little can of tuna
Maybe something we can eat
Sometime something rotten
Sometime even something sweet
He get / What we want
He got / What we need (x2)
'Cause he's a junk man
Junk man (Junk)
He got me a hoodie
He got me a parasol
He got me a toothbrush
He got me some alcohol
Hookin' up a TV
To the battery from a car
Really good with wires
Even found a VCR
Watching all the days gone by
From a little TV show
When you needing something good
He's the one you need to know
He get / What we want
He got / What we need (x2)
'Cause he's a junk man
Junk man (Junk)
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5. |
High
03:11
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[KEVIN, BRIANA, AMY]
Let's get high
And never get low
Breathe,
Sigh,
And see where we've got to go
Higher, higher
Don't you know
You look beautiful
So beautiful
Let's get high
And never say no
Touch
My thigh
And say where you want to want to go
Higher, higher
Higher, you're so
Beautiful
So beautiful
Oh...
Let's get high
And never come down
Wave
Goodbye
And we will escape this town
Higher higher higher higher
Never touching ground
We're floating so beautiful
So beautiful
So beautiful
So beautiful
And so high
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6. |
Dial Tone
03:44
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[BRIANA]
Oh long ago
When there were telephones
You put a quarter in
And got a dial tone
Magical
To talk to anyone
If you knew their number
You could have some fun
I would call my mother
I would call my brother
I would call my lover
Then I'd call another
I would call my mother
I would call my lover
If I had a quarter
If I knew the number
But I don't know the number
And I don't have a quarter
No I don't know the number
And I don't have a quarter
I'll never know the number
I'll never have a quarter
For all my life I'll be alone
I'll never hear a dial tone
Listen now
For that electric moan
The possibilities
Inside a dial tone
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7. |
A.T.
03:16
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[JACK]
I was watching TV
And a man was talking
And he changed my life
In half an hour
He knew everything
He had all the answers
And put all the answers
In the form of a question
Alex
Alex Trebek
What is the meaning of life?
Alex
Alex Trebek
What is the meaning of love?
Now jeopardy
Is my philosophy
Putting all the answers
In the form of a question
Double jeopardy
Is my psychology
All the questions of life
Lack the form of an answer
Oh Alex
Alex Trebek
What does it mean when we cry?
Alex
Alex Trebek
Where do we go when we die?
He's so calm so cool
So stoic so stark
And all of his answers
Leave a question mark
Leave a question mark
Alex
Alex Trebek
Why were we born?
Why are we here?
What is happiness?
What good is fear?
What is love?
What is love?
What is love?
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8. |
Molecule
04:09
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[AMY]
I see birds in my dreams
I see blue sky
I see flowers and trees
And clouds float by
I see many things
I've rarely seen at all
Except in memories
And picture books
In a suitcase down the hall
I see colors in my dreams
Real enough to taste
Tangerine and lemon
And blood red grapes
I see many shades
I've rarely seen at all
Except in memories
And photographs
Of the times that came before
Somewhere there's no screaming
No scrounging for some bread
As we jostle for position
And we jockey for control
Or am I only dreaming
When I picture love instead?
Am I just a fool without a goal?
Does this molecule have a soul?
I see bodies collide
Energy and mass
Motion and momentum
But nothing comes to pass
'Cause if we're just material
Then baby what's the point?
My body is a molecule
But spirit is the fuel
Whoa... Oooo...
Or am I only dreaming...
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9. |
Spectacle of Life
04:40
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[KEVIN, BRIANA, AMY]
Time is a river
We can't reverse the flow
Time is this Chicago River
Where it lead nobody know
Births and deaths and graduations
Firsts and lasts, congratulations
How I miss the spectacle of life
Wedding bells and anniversaries
Fainting spells and painting nurseries
How I miss the spectacle of life
No matter how good we had it
We never ever seemed to know
How very very good we had it
Until we watched it go-wo-wo
Away
Souvenirs and items pretty
Sentimental value city
How I miss the spectacle of life
Photo albums burn to ash
All our memories turn to trash
'Cause we were disre-spectacle of life
For such a crowd of smart people
We were content to sit and wait
So dumb and proud we smart people
The things we need to know-wo-wo
Too late
Time is a river
We can't reverse the flow
Time is this Chicago River
Where it lead nobody know
Time is a subway
Stand back and watch it go
Time is this Chicago subway
Doors closing, doors closing, doors closing
Now
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10. |
Last Chance
05:17
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[ENSEMBLE]
Heartbeat is the first song that you hear
But this could be the last song to be sung
This could be the last dance of the night, of the year,
As our lives disappear,
This could be our last chance to be young
When the Martians come to dig us out
This could be the last song that survives
They will scratch their pointy heads in wonder and doubt
What this world was about
This could be the last dance of our lives
It's hard / to remember / things you never knew
It's hard / to regret / things you'll never do
It's hard / to repeat / mistakes you never made
It's hard / just to think / when there's music being played
When you are born no thought of dying
When first you see no thought of crying
When first you sleep no thought of dreaming
When first you speak no thought of screaming
Sing that song
Right or wrong
Give your all
Before we fall
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Have we hope
for one last...
for one last...
for one last chance...?
[The bacchanal is interrupted by the sound of heavy machinery and an explosion shatters the back wall of the station. A wall of the subway collapses, revealing Jack with a surprise gift: a prisoner of war, now safely bound and gagged with duct tape.]
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11. |
Arms and Legs
04:16
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[TEXAN]
War is a medicine
When countries get sick
War is adrenaline
The choice is the trick
Your choice is fight
Or flight
So take your pick
You fight with your fists
And take flight with your feet
The choice is pretty simple, seems to me
‘Cause arms are for men
And legs are for mice
And who do think I’d rather be?
No no no
Luck has nothing to do with it
A man with a gun never begs
A mouse takes the flight
But a man takes the fight
'Cause arms are better than legs (x3)
You think I'm a hick,
An unevolved ape
That Texans are always alike
But your pocket I will pick
And your women I will rape
And I'll march with your head on a pike
…
Luck has nothing to do with it
A man with a gun never begs
A mouse takes the flight
But a man takes the fight
'Cause arms are better than legs (x3)
There are so many of us
Of you, so few
You'll never make it
So don't blame me that it's true
The world has better things to do
The world has bigger things to do
Bigger and better things to do
Than you... it's true...
You're gonna die
So don't you cry
It is the way of nature
Circle of... oh, never mind
Yeah yeah yeah
Luck has nothing to do with it
A man with a gun never begs
A mouse takes the flight
But a man takes the fight
'Cause arms are better than legs (x3)
So say farewell
And wipe your brow
It's time to kill
Your sacred city cow
Sweet Home Chicago
It belongs to Texas now
... Nothin' personal
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12. |
Alpha
03:48
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BRIANA
War is a boy's game
Pissing on your neighbor's tree
All that ego all that blame
All the trees of history
Guns do right when speeches fail
Lord come give me an alpha male
TEXAN
Fighting's a man's game
Load your weapon pitch your tent
Speeches always end the same
But bullets end the argument
Guns do right when speeches fail
BRIANA
Lord come give me an alpha male
TEXAN
Oh...
BRIANA
I used to be
My daddy's little princess
‘Round pretty things
My world would twirl
But now I see
What’s really in my interest
The bargaining
When boy meets girl
Love is a girl's game
We put ourselves through all that grief
To put up with these wilted salads
When all we want's a side of beef
I'll take the slab
Keep your intellectual
I want someone to grab
Someone hard and sexual
Why wish for a crab
When I can have a whale
Guns do right when speeches fail
Lord come give me the Holy Grail
Jesus grant me the tiger's tail
God I want an alpha male
I want a man who knows where he's going
I want a man who knows he's a man
Pray for a man whose name is worth knowing
Pray for a man...
A man
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13. |
Free
01:40
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This isn't right
This isn't cute
This isn't life
It's just a substitute
Don't want to be
Someone like me
So free
You don't believe
There's any danger
You can't conceive
You'll rearrange your life
You cannot see
How life can be
So free
Free of logic
Free of safety
Free of law and order
Free of rules and borders
Lord knows I was simple then
Guess I shoulda looked a little further
One day you wake up a gentle man
And the next you're capable of murder
This is so dumb
This is the end
This is the sum
Of all we couldn't comprehend
It had to be
And end up we
Are free
Of civilized society
It had to be
And end up we
Are free
Of our reason and our dignity
It had to be
And end up we
Are free
Perfectly free
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14. |
Galaxy
04:13
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Will it always be
That our friends and we
Remain together?
The anxiety
Of infinity
Is the pain of knowing
That when your turn is done
The future has begun
Your course has had its run
And there's no way back
No way back to here
Our galaxy
Was a friend to me
Until this morning
We will never see
What we want to be
It's gone forever
What keeps us together
Tears us apart
We are stars and hearts attracted by forces
Impossible to chart
Oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
A universe
We'll never know
It will always be
That our friends and we
Remain together
All this light you see
In our galaxy
Is, was and will be
You and me
You and me
You and me
You and me and you and me
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15. |
Too Bad
02:48
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I'm too young
Too vain
Too dense
Too unprepared
Too bad
Overwrought
Overthought
Overspent
And underbought
Too bad
If I could live my whole life over
I'd change every fucking thing
I'd wish for something clean and sober
Something not too interesting
And that's too bad
Too bad
Too too too too bad
All war is war on the young
All talk is fork in the tongue
No chance of moderation
Everything is too too too
Life's an endless altercation
All these stupid points of view
But no no no no no no
I'm too shrill
And dismayed
Had my fill
I'm so afraid
I'm wound up
Too tight
Wide awake
All through the night
Too bad
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16. |
To Fight
05:04
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JACK
What are you doing?
You can't cut off the past
Can't prevent the future with a wall
Chicago in ruin
Our luck just couldn't last
The other shoe was always gonna fall
AMY
Fear failed
Tears failed
The wisdom of years failed
JACK
And we have to fight
KEVIN
And the day that we face
That our lives will be erased
That's the day we finally start to be
What I missed before at last I see
AMY
God and his angels
They cannot hear us now
Our voices very quiet underground
Saints up in heaven
Say their prayers for you
For all your final wishes to come true
JACK
But prayer failed
Swearing failed
Bluffing and dares failed
And we have to fight
…
ALL
Was it always the scheme
That our lives are just a dream
Soon to be forgotten in the sun?
JACK
Life's a tragic song and then it's done
KEVIN
Terrible choices
And everyone's aware
That each decision is a small goodbye
AMY
I hear the voices
Of children I won't bear
No summer nights beneath a starry sky
KEVIN & JACK
We failed
AMY
He failed [God]
ALL
Our effort to see failed
JACK
And I have to fight
KEVIN & AMY
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Can't put our country together again
JACK
I have to fight
To fight
To fight
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17. |
One Thing
04:40
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Can't count on parents or presidents
To understand your world
Can't count on the old university
To parcel out those pearls of wisdom
Can't count on the things they taught
So much of it was wrong
And we become the generation
Left to string along
One thing I've learned for sure
I know what life is for
I can count on you
And you can count on me
Can't count on dollar bills or credit cards
To buy you out of desperation
Can't count on modern technology
There's no key marked escape
Can't count on anyone older
Their wisdom was a lie
They're the ones who brought us into
This world about to die
One thing I've learned for sure
I know what life is for
I can count on you
And you can count on me
Oh how much I want to believe
In something far beyond me
Oh how hard I need to believe
In something that
Will bond me back
To meaning...
My flesh my heart my soul
With you at last made whole
My light my love...
Oh please let my life mean something
Oh please let my life mean something
Oh please let my life mean something
With you
With you
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18. |
Chicago Is Next
04:06
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Ancient Greece
Vienna and Prague
The majesty of Rome
The Taj Mahal
The joys of New York
And the town I call my home
All the world's art
All the world's progress
The high-minded books
Magnificent buildings
Have one thing in common
None of them
Not one of them
No none of them
Not one of them
Came from Texas
Here they come
Here they come
There's no hole to hide in
And nowhere to run
The world is ruled by morons with guns
The world was fooled by morons...
And Chicago is next
Chicago is next
Doors closing
Once and for all
Texas hosing
The pride that goes before the fall
Here they come... Chicago is next
Here they come... Chicago is next
All of life is learning to face
The proper way to die
Fate provides the time and the place
We the reasons why
Doors closing
Exit unplanned
Trouble imposing
When fighting men get out of hand
Doors closing
Strange ending that
Hope decomposing
The cornered rat attacks the cat
The cornered rat attacks the cat
The cornered rat attacks the cat
The cornered rat attacks the cat
[They load all of the explosives into their clothing and march to the surface, eager to stop the invaders at any cost. Their final act of love is a sacrifice.]
The cornered rat attacks the cat...
[A flash of light, then silence.]
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Michael Vitali Chicago, Illinois
Music for theatre, film, television, animation, dance, special applications, and other narrative arts.
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