Gravity RocksGravity Rocks
© 2008 Ian Roure
Return of the Chimera Ant-lion or spider-goat Accidental Planet It's a bit on the broken side thanks to us
Extreme Ape Millions of years ago we were more or less the same (Extreme Ape) Like an uber gorilla We’ll always love you though we have clearly moved along
Cell Phone or Schizo Here he comes down 23rd street with his flailing arms Cell phone or Schizo? It’s really hard to know So you’re looking for those little ear phones – anybody at home? Cell phone or Schizo? It’s really hard to know
That's Where You're Wrong, Carruthers Down in the old center for dizziness we treat our sanity In the Sphere of the Prime Mover In the Sphere of the Prime Mover who travels in those circles anyway? Copernican Principle Copernican Principle they’re still picking at you Copernican Principle: aren’t you skeptics a little late? Copernicus started it all: figured out that we are Copernican Principle: first the earth turns out to be round Don’t you wish that you could wake up find it’s been a dream But you can’t get past Copernicus! You can’t get past Copernicus! Red Planet Express Utopia Planitia settlement at eight Radio Free Alpha Centauri Radio Free Alpha Centauri dead air on the frequency Out here in deep space nothing’s for sure Radio Free Alpha Centauri dead air on the frequency Out here in deep space we float on a line Radio Free Alpha Centauri dead air on the frequency
© 2008 Ian Roure
Myth of the past or what’s soon to come?
You prep your microscope
I doubt we’re prepared for what you’ve begun
Down in the complex
Breeding tomorrow’s guinea pigs
With a brand new twist
Bright eyed and transgenetic
Return of the Chimera
Now comes in partly human
Oh oh-oh-oh oh
No need to be afraid
These mystical beasts are here to save lives
No need to hunt and slay
They’re made and contained
They’re in till they die
Down in the complex
On sight they’re just like rats and mice
The difference is inside
Bright eyed and transgenetic
Return of the Chimera
Now comes in partly human
Oh oh-oh-oh oh
Of course we know what we’re doing
We’ll know when we’ve crossed that line
‘Till then we’re crossing creatures and man
We’ve always taken nature in hand
Bright eyed and transgenetic
Return of the Chimera
Now comes in partly human
Oh oh-oh-oh oh
© 2008 Ian Roure
The sentient species in a corner of the cosmos
On an accidental planet
Accidental Planet
And we're so lucky, you and I
To be here at all
In a corner of the cosmos
On an accidental planet
Accidental Planet
No time to hang about
Got to stop world plunder
We're under deconstruction
and no one else is gonna come and fix it for us
On an accidental planet
Accidental, accidental, accidental planet
No one else is gonna come and fix it for us
© 2008 Ian Roure
Now you would hardly know us though some say that it’s a shame
Left you livin’ in the forest while we built our cities and towns
Once we start to evolve baby we don’t mess around
(Extreme Ape) Monster chimp
(Extreme Ape) They’ve got nothing on us
(Extreme Ape) We’re pushing the edge
E-X-T-R-E-M-E
We’ll always be the smart ones though sometimes we are so wrong
You’ve done wonders with your sticks and your stones got your culinary ways
We’ve been cooking up a banquet though we’re hungry every day
© 2008 Ian Roure
He’s screaming to himself as he pays no heed to the people passing by
Cell phone or Schizo? Cell phone or Schizo?
Any wires hanging down underneath his coat where a mobile phone might be…
Cell phone or Schizo? Cell phone or Schizo?
Why are there so many schizos on the street? Why are there so many schizos there to meet?
Cell phone or Schizo?
© 2008 Ian Roure
Me and Carruthers every night made a complete recovery
Swimming in ideas till we’d run aground
Carruthers has to calculate the pay and dollars owed
Equating inspiration with taxation and cash flow
We’re going for a song, you’re gonna tag along
That’s Where You’re Wrong, Carruthers
Down in the old center for dizziness we buy another round
Me and Carruthers kept our spirits up until they got shot down
By unfriendly fire over concerns for our wealth
Carruthers has to calculate the pay and dollars owed
Equating inspiration with taxation and cash flow
We’re going for a song, you’re gonna tag along
That’s Where You’re Wrong, Carruthers
Carruthers you jumped upon the option to invest in wild cat stock
Pity the cat wasn’t as wild as you thought
And you gazed upon the high ground, but you soon had rather not
You never really bought that fine and noble rot
You never really bought that fine and noble rot
© 2008 Ian Roure
Deities and souls who’ve crossed over – or it the domain of DNA?
As we travel in circles and concentric spheres
And retrograde motion down here
You may want to drag us back
You may preach as if it’s fact
Why it’s worth coming to blows;
No one really knows
You may think you know whose hand turns the heavens and the rack
But since no report’s come back
No one really knows
No one really knows
No one really knows
In the Sphere of the Prime Mover who travels in those circles anyway?
© 2008 Ian Roure
Some notions are hard to accept no matter how true
I thought that we’d got this straight when Watson and Crick
Unraveled the secret of life from a helix twist
You can’t send the knowledge back once it’s got past the starting gate
Copernican Principle ain’t goin’ away
One of several large chunks of rock that go around a star
Copernicus started it all but others followed trough
Galileo, Darwin et al bruised egos too
Then Ptolemy’s universe crumbles on shaky ground
Copernican Principle brought everyone ‘round
With the earth still at the center of your cosmic scheme
Don’t you want to turn back time, play down progress and all that can bring?
© 2008 Ian Roure
I hurry down walkway 15 always running late
Prospectors in heated suits head towards the gate
And then we're off across rusty terrain
Red Planet Express train leaving the airlock
Red Planet Express train: take this armchair astronaut
Change at Terra Tyrrhena for the Hellas mines
The prospectors get up to go, I stay on this line
Watching landscape that's speeding past jagged, red and wide
Until the Tharsis space ports come in sight
Red Planet Express train approaching the airlock
Red Planet Express train: take this armchair astronaut
© 2008 Ian Roure
Radio Free Alpha Centauri calling the antenna king
Over…
Commence EVA step through the door
Searching the void for a shortcut next-door
Radio Free Alpha Centauri calling the antenna king
Over…
Tie-in Super String the theory sounds fine
Searching the void for a shortcut through time
Radio Free Alpha Centauri calling the antenna king
Over…calling over…