Paul Shapera piosenki

Several hundred years before A gambler and a monk embarked On a long trek through the endless prairies of the North They had a fierce debate About God and chance and fate and to resolve it agreed a game of cards indeed be played The game went on all day...

NARRATOR: And so around 3 am, A recently deceased man Found himself wound in the land of living again. Bound in a body Of gears and wheels but oddly He has no voice and his steel joints barely can bend. The one sound he makes in fact He streams radio...

ANNABELLE: Winding all the dials and the wires and the spires and the tests for the connections and injections still to run Capacitors and meters and the alkali and beakers The restating of equations for the phase about to come Please come back to me the...

ANNABELLE: Ghosts of dreams, ghosts of memory that will not leave or lay in quiet Ghosts that cry about the life you let go by Ghosts of pasts of little girls who learned their math, grasped their facts Tried their best to reach success just as they w...

[NARRATOR:] Beside the girl's body, her suicide note and the words from the doll's song was all that she wrote. It was published in papers, discussed, yet despite this the dolls kept broadcasting all day and all night. Columnists bantered, parent groups...

[NARRATOR:] So Edgar tries all the experiments he’s read Annabella's formula for bringing back the dead. The experiments, of course, prove a success And thus a crazy notion comes into his head! [EDGAR:] One day you will see That I can be someone you...

[EDGAR:] The restaurant was lovely, The food, the wine, it all seemed A perfect night and she looked so divine... I poured myself a new one She says it’s over and done, She says she found someone and it’s goodbye... One day you will learn, and you wil...

[JASPER:] Elysium, The silent sighed lost lullaby, Elysian night... Elysium, The child who climbs the edge of time, Elysian night... The place the child you hardly knew, Sailed to in his wooden shoe. Past the last star in the sky Where wishes neve...

[FAY:] Once we saw a band play. Years ago, I hardly Knew you like I came to in our day... I was so excited, I fussed for hours prior And when you knocked, my heart nearly gave way... When does intimacy Become so cruel and petty? Become a pit of loa...

[SOLDIERS:] Soldier 7285, why didn't you fire? Soldier 7285, why didn't you fire? Soldier 7285, you are hereby notified of your court marshall for negligence of duty. Why did you fire? [SOLDIER 7285:] I saw her eyes, I've never faced That kind of loo...

(Narrator takes us around New Albion a generation later.) NARRATOR: And so a generation’s passed Annabel married at last And she had a son she named Edgar but alas She died when he was 10 his heart was broken but since then He’s grown and found his darli...

[VOODOOPUNKI:] Ya ko, hoo-o-la-oh, A-hee-lay-oh-la-hey... [NARRATOR:] And so the years they fly, a generation goes on by And new faces, new places of New Albion arrive. The doll that Edgar brought back for Fay, well, sure enough He’s Jasper, the same...

[NARRATOR:] Meanwhile, we come back to the fourth and final act Byron got himself a trophy wife and had A daughter who he named Priscilla, and she came To age in a city that is now a police state New Albion today is a harsh and martial place The riots d...

[PRISCILLA:] Club and spade I raise, here in this parlor, in this never ending game we play And we hide, just you and I, as day fades into day Hidden in our room, with a game that no one ever seems to win or lose And the shades of flames remain from a wor...

[PRISCILLA:] Some speak about love in a sweet way Enchantment, romance and dizzy dream states And some just wait and pace their cage Some speak about love as a passion As rapture and cries, and sighs and gasps and Some resign to yearn inside These odes...

[NARRATOR:] You remember at the start, the Gambler and the Monk played cards? Years before, a Monk and Gambler embarked On a long trek right through the great lands of the North They had a debate about God, chance and fate And agreed it be settled thro...

[NARRATOR:] Circles never stop themselves Nothing that you’ve ever held Were you promised or reneged And sometimes when you lose, you win Circles never stop themselves Nothing that you’ve ever held Were you promised or reneged And sometimes when you...

[BYRON:] Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay, Doll-ay doll-ay, doll-ay doll-ay... In the movement, in the nights of dead and dance, In the movement, the haunted held within our hands, In the movement, Jasper, love is why I do, In the movement, the love I...

[AMELIA:] In the movement, in the nights of dead and dance, In the movement, when I’m offering out my hand, In the movement, I don’t need you to pretend, In the movement, all I ask for is a friend... In the movement, drugs and dance and spirits whirl,...

[NARRATOR:] The old trunk in the attic, Where grandmothers broken heart was tossed In a box with a ballet shoe And dead soldiers cross... The old trunk in the attic With the candlesticks your great uncle saved From the girl in the market, Whose mothe...