Starlight & Dinosaurs
from Steel Cage Match by Brooke vs. John
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Steel Cage Match is 15 tracks of Brooke & John causing trouble, in a low-profile sleeve case sealed with a pharmacy warning label. (See below for more about John, my wonderful guitar-playing pal!) Why is it the same price as the digital album? MY APARTMENT IS OVER-RUN BY THEM. The shipping is kind of intense, though, because alas, that's what it costs.
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Words: Brooke Abbey (2006). Music: "Starlight and Saxophone", (C) 1989 by Tom Smith. All rights reserved. Used with permission.
Spoiler for Serenity!!! But if you haven't seen Serenity by now, you probably don't care if it gets spoiled I guess. The plastic dinosaurs in Serenity made me cry like a baby, so I wrote a song to the tune of the Tom Smith song that always makes me cry like a baby. Tom's song has a bridge that mine leaves out.
Spoiler for Serenity!!! But if you haven't seen Serenity by now, you probably don't care if it gets spoiled I guess. The plastic dinosaurs in Serenity made me cry like a baby, so I wrote a song to the tune of the Tom Smith song that always makes me cry like a baby. Tom's song has a bridge that mine leaves out.
lyrics
Persephone or Whitefall, Earth-that-was -
It doesn't matter where
From the core to the borderlands, there's no
Man can fill this empty chair
River is our pilot now, and
I'm trying to move ahead
But when I look across at her
There's a ghost I see instead
There ought to be a dinosaur, above the console lights
A prehistoric battle scene, to make me feel all right
But the plastic palm tree's gone, with the only one who might
With dinos play
My pilot's Washed away
He pulled off our escape, so
Close, it seemed a miracle to land
One moment of relief until we
Learned the cruel trick fate had planned
We all knew it was risky
The Alliance to defy
And it's nothing I can't handle
You know I've seen men die
Still there really ought to be a dinosaur, right there in easy reach
Whimsical fake reptiles on a wee Jurassic beach
But they're gone and silent now, with the one who used to teach
Us all to smile
Across the black miles
Zoe steps in the control room
Still dressed in mourning white
Her face tells as little as ever
Her hands hold a small box tight
She opens it slowly and takes out
A set of plastic figurines
"We both know these belong here," she says,
And sets them on the radar screen
I pick up the tyrannosaur I haven't seen since his last day
"Mine is an evil laugh!" I can almost hear him say
I look up to meet her stare, and I find we both are wearing
A sad grin - maybe we can begin
Without our leaf on the wind
It doesn't matter where
From the core to the borderlands, there's no
Man can fill this empty chair
River is our pilot now, and
I'm trying to move ahead
But when I look across at her
There's a ghost I see instead
There ought to be a dinosaur, above the console lights
A prehistoric battle scene, to make me feel all right
But the plastic palm tree's gone, with the only one who might
With dinos play
My pilot's Washed away
He pulled off our escape, so
Close, it seemed a miracle to land
One moment of relief until we
Learned the cruel trick fate had planned
We all knew it was risky
The Alliance to defy
And it's nothing I can't handle
You know I've seen men die
Still there really ought to be a dinosaur, right there in easy reach
Whimsical fake reptiles on a wee Jurassic beach
But they're gone and silent now, with the one who used to teach
Us all to smile
Across the black miles
Zoe steps in the control room
Still dressed in mourning white
Her face tells as little as ever
Her hands hold a small box tight
She opens it slowly and takes out
A set of plastic figurines
"We both know these belong here," she says,
And sets them on the radar screen
I pick up the tyrannosaur I haven't seen since his last day
"Mine is an evil laugh!" I can almost hear him say
I look up to meet her stare, and I find we both are wearing
A sad grin - maybe we can begin
Without our leaf on the wind
credits
from Steel Cage Match,
released June 19, 2009
Vocals, banjola: Brooke Abbey
Harmony vocals: Michelle Dockrey
Guitar: John Caspell
Vocals, banjola: Brooke Abbey
Harmony vocals: Michelle Dockrey
Guitar: John Caspell
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Brooke Abbey Vancouver
Brooke Abbey (formerly Brooke Lunderville) is a banjo-playing pharmacist from Vancouver, BC.
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