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Lyrics:
The Amazon is burning, and my heart is in the trees
The strangest things are choking, high up in the canopy
And my mind is full of wild things that I've never seen before
There's panic in the jungle, there's a fire on the floor
Chorus:
And we roll in, roll out, roll up our sleeves
And get down to the business of taking what we need
And submarines are sinking with their nuclear disease
And I think I see you running, water spraying at the knees
And your tears are full of fishes, and your mouth is full of rain
You can sparkle all you want to, but you won't come out again
(Chorus x2)
You don't need for me to tell you what we need is more than love
You can smell it in the ozone, you can feel it in your blood
But I feel as weak as breakfast tea in a river full of oil
Or starlight on a solar cell, waiting for the boil
(Chorus x2)
The Amazon is burning, and my heart is in the trees
The strangest things are choking, high up in the canopy
And my mind is full of wild things that I've never seen before
There's panic in the jungle, there's a fire on the floor
(Chorus x2)
Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
The Amazon is burning, and my heart is in the trees
The strangest things are choking, high up in the canopy
And my mind is full of wild things that I've never seen before
There's panic in the jungle, there's a fire on the floor
Chorus:
And we roll in, roll out, roll up our sleeves
And get down to the business of taking what we need
And submarines are sinking with their nuclear disease
And I think I see you running, water spraying at the knees
And your tears are full of fishes, and your mouth is full of rain
You can sparkle all you want to, but you won't come out again
(Chorus x2)
You don't need for me to tell you what we need is more than love
You can smell it in the ozone, you can feel it in your blood
But I feel as weak as breakfast tea in a river full of oil
Or starlight on a solar cell, waiting for the boil
(Chorus x2)
The Amazon is burning, and my heart is in the trees
The strangest things are choking, high up in the canopy
And my mind is full of wild things that I've never seen before
There's panic in the jungle, there's a fire on the floor
(Chorus x2)
![Technical Difficulties - Come You Knights [HQ]
Please Stand By track 04. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Chorus:
Come ye knights and come ye pilots
With your ships and sabers shining
Come and stop your childrens crying
Come and join the Rebel Queen
Come with might and come with glory
Set your dreams on wings a-soaring
Hear the ancient hidden story.
Come and join the Rebel Queen!
Heard the tales the Empire spread, told you Rebels couldnt win
So you locked your doors before them, made your courage battered tin.
Promised you the traitor’s lands, wealth and power in your hands
You dont even have to fight. All you do is watch them die.
Never ask the dangerous questions such as why youre off to war
Yours is but to follow generals, going where the trumpets blow.
(Chorus)
In the battle for Tiatra, saw a pilot as he died
Looked into his shattered cockpit, heard my soul in torment cry.
For the first time since I started, for the first time in my life
Looked into the enemys eyes, found that they were just like mine.
Lived with evil for so long now, had forgotten truth and right
Knew my time had come and somehow saw my way to join their fight.
(Chorus)
Lying in a blasted turret with a full moon in my eyes
Had no hope that help was coming, when a flash lit up the skies.
Thought it was a battle starship, felt that soon we all would die
Heard the words the Emperor promised, knew them right then for a lie.
Saw the Rebel starships coming, being led by the Chosen Ones
Evil forces lost that morning, and a new day has begun.
(Chorus) Technical Difficulties - Come You Knights [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4xRsvRA-Mew/mqdefault.jpg)
![Leslie Fish - Teacher, Teacher [HQ]
Firestorm track 04. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Teacher, teacher, do what you can
To teach your children all the knowledge of man
Teach them how to think and how to survive
A world that eats the soul and body alive
Teacher, teacher, you know what they face
A sea of bigotry for age, sex, or race
Or any other cause thats useful this year
Try to warn the children while theyre still safe in here
Teacher, teacher, the foe waits outside
To turn your children into tools for his pride
Hes always scratching for a way to come in
Here comes a pressure group, hes trying again
Teacher, teacher, you know youre alone
Your boss wont save your skin; hes saving his own
Nor will the parents help, but only condemn
They want their children taught to be just like them
Here comes the bureaucrat with fifty more rules
To tie your hands and take more bread from the schools
Here comes the preacher trying hard to get in
He wants all children taught his pet brand of sin
Here comes the government with plenty to say
It wants your children taught to serve and obey
Here comes the school board, and thats worst of all
They want the teachers taught to cave in and fall
Teacher, teacher, you know what youll find
They want their thumbprints stamped on everyones mind
The kids suspect it and resent it like hell
And all too often theyll suspect you as well
Teacher, teacher, tell me how can you teach
When all the grownups only want you to preach?
How can you teach the kids to think for themselves
With all the censors stealing books off our shelves?
Teacher, guarding the dwindling flame,
How many of your kids have beaten the game?
The wind is rising and the nights falling fast
Will you run, save yourself, or fight to the last? Leslie Fish - Teacher, Teacher [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/59114v_Uxoc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Space Child Lost [HQ]
High Wings track 12. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Oh, I am a spacechild, I was born for the stars.
On bright silver glitterwings I will journey far.
The ship shes my love, my song and my home.
I was made by the gods, the spaceways to roam.
I am a starpilot, trained and taught
And flight is my life-need, it measures each thought
The space-winds my joy, her course is my pride
Its my pleasure and sorrow the starlanes to ride.
Oh, once I had a lover but now he is gone:
He could not hear the wild call that drove me on;
My heart sang in sorrow, but by then twas too late:
I could never return; he had no cause to wait.
But he waited at dockside in Radiants fair town
For my stardancing spaceship to wing her way down.
He pleaded, saying Love, without you Ill die.
I said not a word, but looked at the sky.
My love turned and walked into the dark heavy night.
His head bent in sorrow, his shoulders hunched in fright.
On the first jump out from Radiant, a wild, haunting cry
Filled the ship with a death-song as we soared through the sky.
Hed hidden in the drive room, where theres no way to escape,
And no way I would find him till it was too late.
For the drive songs pure beauty, and the drive song is death;
My love heard the ships song with the last of his breath.
So my ship took my lover, and now Im alone
As the gods have ordained it, the spaceways to roam:
The space wind and the ships song will bear me company
Its a sad life, but joyous, on the wide, endless sea. Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Space Child Lost [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6GinJV6O1xM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Free Fall & Other Delights 16 - Space Station Annie [HQ]
Sung by Cynthia McQuillin and Larry Warner. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Annie sits by herself in a bar with no friends
She thinks of her past and dreams now and then
Once she had beauty, you can see in her eyes
But life has grown bitter, love holds no surprise
Chorus:
Space Station Annie, hit of the circuit, the toast of them all
Space Station Annie, chasing the stars around, around...
Planetbound lovers have faded and gone,
But the lure of the rover kept calling her on
One more performance, the show was her life
And when you forgot her, it cut like a knife
(Chorus)
One bars like another, and shes seen em all
She still keeps on singing right over the brawl
When she takes a bow, though you never pause,
In the back of her mind she still hears the applause
(Chorus) Free Fall & Other Delights 16 - Space Station Annie [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6NKEevn3P-4/mqdefault.jpg)
![Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Sourdough Skies [HQ]
High Wings track 7. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
An airline you own neath the midnight sun
Neath the midday dark and the chill
Your assets a one-engine high-wing plane
Your luck, brains, courage and skill.
Strange are your loads, for no two are alike
And sometimes youve flown for free
Your logbook reads like The Call of the Wild
Youre an adventurer, wild and free
In wintertime, warming the engine
Means lighting a fire underneath for a time
And take-off at dawn
Means waiting till noon
As into the twilight you climb.
And landing in snowstorms on skis is a thrill
As you feel your way down through the slop
A river you see, so you schuss on the snow
And you pray it stays flat till you stop!
The midsummer sun is so warm and so bright
Youd think you could fly without care
On floats, with all those lakes, rivers and ponds
Youd think you could land anywhere
But the snags you dont see can rip up your floats
And then, friend, youve got to walk home
A hundred long miles to the nearest small town
Through bears–and tundra–alone!
Glaciers are fun any time of the year
For those parties who want you to land
On frost-giant faces you dodge the crevasses
And the wailing willawa wind
With oil and eggs and a stove and some pills
And a caribou carcass you fly
A woman and kids and a gold-miners poke
Cause youre part of the Sourdough Skies
Youre part of Alaskas skies. Aislinn (Anne Prather) - Sourdough Skies [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6TRwuGbyrCc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Bill Sutton - Bask, Ye Samplers [HQ]
Past Due track 12. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Chorus:
Bask, ye samplers, bask in the light
Space is dark, but the star is bright
Bask in the heat of the distant sun
Its gonna get hotter before were done
So bask in the heat of the sun, boys
Bask in the heat of the sun!
We mine the neutron matter from the heart of a living star
Remotes cant pass magnetic fields, machines cant go that far
So we must ply our samplers to the edge of the stellar core
And there release the drone ships to collect our neutron ore
(Chorus)
A starships drive is a neutron drive, and it pushes the speed of light
The starships fly to the distant stars, we fly to the star in sight
From cool and green to heat obscene we cross in the work we do
We do it well and we brave this hell for the sake of the starship crew
(Chorus)
A million miles to the core and back, in the heat of the fusion glow
All mankind thrives on the lives we lead, but only the samplers go
If not for the neutrons we return, the starships could not run
And so we mine like our fathers mined, and bask in the heat of the sun
(Chorus) Bill Sutton - Bask, Ye Samplers [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/74PcwNKNSEg/mqdefault.jpg)
![Frank Hayes - Lola the Engineer [HQ]
Dont Ask track 16. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
I met her in a barroom on a world called Callan C
More drunk she was than anyone would ever want to be
I tickled her and patted her and lifted up her skirt
She jumped up on my lap and then she threw up on my shirt
And I said, “This looks like the start of a beautiful friendship!”
And Ill drink a toast now to Lola, the engineer
On board the “Sultans Pleasure,” with a load of ore to haul
Well, a freighter all but runs itself between the ports of call
And outside of drink and making love, there isnt much to do
So thats what we did each chance we could, and a few we couldnt too
And those were very few
And Ill drink a toast now to Lola, the engineer
One day in an unused engine, just to pass the while
Drinking gin and making love in a complicated style
Our bodies shook together from our kneecaps to our necks
“Its love!” I cried. “Like hell,” she said, “its pirates! Hit the deck!”
She listened at the intercom then turned to me and said
“Inside an hour theyll find us, in an hour well be dead.
And theres no way to outrun em...” then a look came to her eye
“By God, it may not work,” she said, “but well know the reason why.”
So Ill drink a toast now to Lola, the engineer
It seems the pirates made their move while we were making love
And a pulsar blast had fried the brains of every hand above
But we were recreating down in engine number two
Where twenty feet of shielding kept the hell from coming through
So we jury-rigged the panel board to start the engine cold
With a power surge and a blast we knew the shielding couldnt hold
And Lola took a can of paint and signed her work in red
“Ill see you bloody bastards down in hell!” was what it said
And Ill drink a toast now to Lola, the engineer
Then we sprinted for a shuttlecraft and ran to save our skins
And Lola passed the bottle for one final slug of gin
“Theres a million ways to live,” she said, “but theres just one way to die.”
Then the surge came through and the “Pleasure” blew and the pirates lit the sky
And when the “Sultans Pleasure” went, the sky was filled with light
And time stood still an endless moment in the endless night...
And then the shockwave hit us, picked us up, and threw us clear
Theres fortune for a greenhorn and a spaceborn engineer
And Ill drink a toast now to Lola, the engineer
It ended back on Callans where we drained the taverns dry
We drank and smashed our glasses and we never said goodbye
And the last time I saw Lola she was looking for a beer
Shes a drunkard, and a cynic, and a first-class engineer—
And Ill drink a toast now to Lola, the engineer Frank Hayes - Lola the Engineer [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7CRyZdZgeE4/mqdefault.jpg)
![Frank Hayes - Lincoln Park Pirates [HQ]
Dont Ask track 10. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
The streetlamps are on in Chicago tonight
And the lovers are gazing at stars
Stores are all closing and Harolds been chosen
And the fat mans counting the cars
“And theres more cars than places to put em,” he says,
“But Ive got room for them all!
So round em up boys, cause I want some more toys;
Hit the lot by the grocery store.”
Chorus:
To me way, hey, tow them away
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we
From Wilmette to Gary, theres none thats so hairy
And we always collect our fee!
To me way, hey, tow them away
We plunder the streets of your town
Be it Edsel or Chevy, theres no car too heavy,
And no one can make us shut down.
“We break into cars when we gotta
With pickaxe and hammer and saw
And they said this garage has no license—
Ha! Little care I for the law!
All my drivers are friendly and courteous
Their good manners you always will get
Cause they all are recent graduates
Of the ‘charm school’ in Joliet.”
(Chorus)
“And when all the cars are collected
And all of their fenders are ruined
Then well tow every boat in Belmont Harbor
To the Lincoln Park Lagoon
And when weve collected the ransom
And sunk all the ones that wont yield
Then well tow all the planes that are blocking the runways
At Midway, OHare, and Meigs Field.”
To me way, hey, tow them away
The Lincoln Park Pirates are we
From Wilmette to Gary, theres none thats so hairy
And we always collect our fee!
To me way, hey, tow them away—
Now, citizens, gather around
And I think its enough
And lets call his bluff
Lets tow the bum out of town! Frank Hayes - Lincoln Park Pirates [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7HE5W3-d5xM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Julia Ecklar - The Oath [HQ]
Horse-Tamers Daughter track 13. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
As I was out a-riding, one evening last July,
I heard a maiden singing, and bitter she did cry.
I quietly dismounted, to get a closer view
And see if there was aught a man of honor could pursue.
She stood all in the clearing, and no one else was there.
Her eyes with salt tears shone within the shadows of her hair
Her dance was wrought in anger, and her voice was tight with pain
As she sang her song of undying love, for some far wandering man.
“Oh, you deny the magic, and you deny the love,
But I swear an oath by all thats bright in the darkening sky above
That we have shared a magic, and the love flowed strong and true.
You can stop your ears to my hearts song, and still it sings for you.
“So you want to be my friend, and use a friendly voice to me.
Oh, I swear an oath by all that lives on land, in air and sea
That I do not leave the friendship when my hearts led by romance.
You can close your eyes on the swirl and sway, but you cannot stop the dance.
“So you say you fear to hurt me, or to cause me some new pain.
I swear an oath by mist and fog, by sleet and snow and rain,
That the finest treasures worthless if its beauty is not seen,
And you pierced my heart like cold, hard steel by denying what had been.
“Well, I pity all your ladies, for your memory so short,
And your eyes bespeak a romance when youre only wanting sport.
Oh, I swear an oath by all I hold in this world to be true,
That as deep a grief as I feel now, tis a greater loss for you.”
She swore that final oath, and then she danced it to the ground.
The birds and beasts, the mist and rain, all heard that final sound.
And Im the only witness as can tell the tale to you
Of the sorrow learned by those who find that love can be half true. Julia Ecklar - The Oath [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7J6s6Z9O2bI/mqdefault.jpg)
![Leslie Fish - Blue Bread Mold [HQ]
Firestorm track 16. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Find more of Leslie Fishs music at: https://lesliefish.bandcamp.com/
Lyrics:
Line up, you survivors, the doctors come to town:
Tell me all your symptoms, please, and haul your trousers down
Half your troubles these days dont need to be told
But I can cure the other half with blue bread mold
Chorus:
Blue bread mold, the story must be told
Nothing keeps you living like the blue bread mold
Blue bread mold, the story must be told
Nothing keeps you living like the blue bread mold
I notice that youre bleeding, and it isnt monthly flow—
How you got yourself cut up, I dont need to know
But wash your wounds with alcohol before theyre dry and cold
And finish it with a dusting of the blue bread mold
(Chorus)
Now you, youve left this cut too long. Its stinking, and its blue,
But dont consider suicide, Ive just the thing for you
Come here, you guys, and hold him down, if you would be so bold
Well clean this out with bleach and then with blue bread mold
(Chorus)
And you, youve got a nasty cough, a fever, and the shakes
So swallow this stuff twice a day, a spoonfuls all it takes
Thatll cure it proper, if it aint the common cold—
For ten days gargle garlic juice with blue bread mold
(Chorus)
Now you look strong and healthy. So whats the problem, please?
You say theres just no flavor in your local sheep-milk cheese?
Well, dust this powder on the curds, stir and roll and fold,
You can change your cheese to Roquefort with the blue bread mold
(Chorus)
So listen to your traveling doc before I have to go
To keep your wounds and water clean, you already know
But listen, you survivors, if you plan on growing old
Then keep a generous breeding stock of blue bread mold
Blue bread mold, the story must be told
Nothing keeps you living like the blue bread mold
Blue bread mold, a treasure more than gold
You can call it penicillin, but its blue bread mold! Leslie Fish - Blue Bread Mold [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7mMgrR0kRn8/mqdefault.jpg)
![Frank Hayes - Cockroaches on Parade [HQ]
Dont Ask track 07. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Now that its cold with winds outside
They need a warm new place to hide
Inside your walls, under the floor,
The cabinet, behind the door
They get a drink inside your sink
They have a laugh around the bath
And when you go and turn your back
They like to sneak a little snack
Black Flag, Decon, indoor sprays, fumigators by the score
Swat them, stamp them, hammer them with Raid—they come back for more
But in the darkest hour, just before the dawn
You can hear them singing some old love song
They wipe their feet on your lunch meat
They put their hands into your cans
They take your scraps into their laps
And then they dine upon your wine
Earlier tonight you hurried up to go on your big date
And in your haste you left a lot of dirty forks and knives and plates
And as you sit here listening to this stupid song
On your kitchen table theres a party going on!
And when you get home late tonight
Open the door, turn on the light
And you will see wallpaper change
Those are cockroaches on parade!
Earlier tonight you hurried up to go on your big date
And in your haste you left a lot of dirty forks and knives and plates
And as you sit here listening to this stupid song
On your kitchen table theres a party going on!
And when you get home late tonight
Open the door, turn on the light
And you will see wallpaper change
Those are cockroaches on parade! Frank Hayes - Cockroaches on Parade [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8N9G02y_w9o/mqdefault.jpg)