![Technical Difficulties - Dedication [HQ] @SongsfromtheStars](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xyCDhioHBSw/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded February 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Please Stand By track 06. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Seven names to represent the whole damn human race (seven names)
Seven who died reaching for space (as we reach for space)
Others will fly
In that tempting void that waits beyond the sky
We’ll control the lightning once again (we’ll control the lightning)
Stars have ever beckoned men to reach for higher things (higher things)
Stars for which we try with homemade wings (with our wings we soar)
Time is our friend
As we try and fail and try and never bend
We’ve controlled the lightning and the wind
Once we sailed o’er the seas, slave to tide and breeze
Guided by the stars we seek to know
And to further our schemes lay the mother world of dreams
Smiling even as we turned to go
Cradle world that brought us forth beneath our warming sun (warming sun)
Cradle world of life that’s just begun (as we begin)
Watch as we grow
In the face of hate and strife and hammer blow
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We will control the lightning again
Please Stand By track 06. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: archive.org/details/filk_please_stand_by
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Lyrics:
Seven names to represent the whole damn human race (seven names)
Seven who died reaching for space (as we reach for space)
Others will fly
In that tempting void that waits beyond the sky
We’ll control the lightning once again (we’ll control the lightning)
Stars have ever beckoned men to reach for higher things (higher things)
Stars for which we try with homemade wings (with our wings we soar)
Time is our friend
As we try and fail and try and never bend
We’ve controlled the lightning and the wind
Once we sailed o’er the seas, slave to tide and breeze
Guided by the stars we seek to know
And to further our schemes lay the mother world of dreams
Smiling even as we turned to go
Cradle world that brought us forth beneath our warming sun (warming sun)
Cradle world of life that’s just begun (as we begin)
Watch as we grow
In the face of hate and strife and hammer blow
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We will control the lightning again
![Technical Difficulties - Dedication [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xyCDhioHBSw/mqdefault.jpg "Technical Difficulties - Dedication [HQ]
Please Stand By track 06. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_please_stand_by/
Lyrics:
Seven names to represent the whole damn human race (seven names)
Seven who died reaching for space (as we reach for space)
Others will fly
In that tempting void that waits beyond the sky
We’ll control the lightning once again (we’ll control the lightning)
Stars have ever beckoned men to reach for higher things (higher things)
Stars for which we try with homemade wings (with our wings we soar)
Time is our friend
As we try and fail and try and never bend
We’ve controlled the lightning and the wind
Once we sailed o’er the seas, slave to tide and breeze
Guided by the stars we seek to know
And to further our schemes lay the mother world of dreams
Smiling even as we turned to go
Cradle world that brought us forth beneath our warming sun (warming sun)
Cradle world of life that’s just begun (as we begin)
Watch as we grow
In the face of hate and strife and hammer blow
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We’ll control the lightning once again
We will control the lightning again")
![Frank Hayes - Cosmos [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yEoHMz_55V8/mqdefault.jpg "Frank Hayes - Cosmos [HQ]
Dont Ask track 17. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Theres a hole in the middle of it all
Theres a hole in the middle of it all
Theres a hole, theres a hole, theres a hole in the middle of it all.
Now, the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all
The Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all
Theres a hole, theres a hole, theres a hole in the middle of it all.
And theres a void where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all...
And there is nothing in the void where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all...
And now Im looking for the nothing in the void where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all...
And Ill get government funding for looking for the nothing in the void where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all...
And Ill get a book contract and a TV show with the government funding for looking for the nothing in the void where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all...
And Ill make BILLIONS AND BILLIONS from the book contract and the TV show with the government funding for looking for the nothing in the void where the Bang caused the hole in the middle of it all...
Assuming the theory holds...theres a hole in the middle of it all!")
![Leslie Fish & the Dehorn Crew - Ramboing [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yU4ujvTZLIw/mqdefault.jpg "Leslie Fish & the Dehorn Crew - Ramboing [HQ]
Its Sister Jennys Turn to Throw the Bomb track 14. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
For all the ills that plague mankind, there is a certain cure
For neighbors rude and rowdy and for prigs sublime and pure,
For holier-than-thous and nasty children by the store,
There is one man who shows the way, salvation is his store.
Chorus:
So let us go a-Ramboing among the live grenades,
Yes, let us go a-Ramboing, all lively youths and maids.
With an Uzi in the left hand and machete in the right,
O let us go a-Ramboing out on the town tonight!
Your boss is full of fertilizer, but hes still the boss,
You therefore labor mightily to his gain and your loss.
He hassles and torments you, nags and plagues you day and night;
Take heart, O pilgrim, there is hope, redemption is in sight.
(Chorus)
And as for politicians, well, need anymore be said?
Their fingers are all in the till, their skulls are made of lead.
Youll never vote the bastards out, for guess who runs the game,
And no use yelling for the law, the cops are just the same.
(Chorus)
Your neighbor mows his lawn at 3 a.m. on Sunday morn
And thanks to him you often wish that you were never born,
Especially when, after hours and one too many brews,
He alternates Ms. Dolly P. with polka tunes and blues.
(Chorus)
Your neighbors children play their wars at most unholy hours
And recreate Guadalcanal among your shrubs and flowers.
They decorate your trees with tissue normally found on rolls
And excavate your driveway like so many little moles.
(Chorus)
Your other neighbor has been saved and wants to save you too;
Hell gladly tell you endlessly exactly what to do.
Just put your soul into his hands, youll go and sin no more,
Dont drink or smoke or anything, but be (like him) a bore.
(Chorus)
Sweet polite persuasion here will bring you no relief,
For those who yield to reason arent the kind that cause you grief.
So when youve had it up to here, and fear youll grow unhinged,
Its no more Mr. Nice Guy, lets go out and get revenge.
(Chorus)
Yes, there is a solution to the grafter, bore, and prude,
The idiot who bosses you, the neighbor brute and rude.
Just take up arms against the sea of troubles, toil, and fuss,
Whats good enough for the new John Wayne is good enough for us!
(Chorus)")
![UnReal Estate 07 - Songs of Distant Earth [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yjbLIqHmqnc/mqdefault.jpg "UnReal Estate 07 - Songs of Distant Earth [HQ]
Sung by Bill Roper. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
The melody is over, the last transmission done,
The cool of Earth is turned to flame with the dying of the Sun.
The nova flare will burn away the world of mankinds birth
And fire will be the ending of the songs of distant Earth.
The sentence was pronounced: the death of Earth would come,
The Sun burn briefly bright, all historyd be done,
And all the things they cared for, the laughter and the tears,
Be ended by the novas flame in fifteen hundred years.
But although die they must, man might outlive his home:
The stars were waiting there, with planets of their own.
The telescopes peered outward; the probes were sent to fly,
To seek a world that they might seed, that mankind need not die.
No man of Earth may walk beneath a foreign sun,
But the seedships sent their life; a new race has begun.
On twenty worlds weve gathered, the human voice grows strong,
And we carry on their writing, their poetry, their song.
The melody is over, but the echoes linger on
From the seeds of life they planted gainst the dying of the Sun.
The echos growing stronger as it calls of mans rebirth
And a score of worlds are singing now the songs of distant Earth.")
![Jordin Kare - Melodies So Deep [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yo_A26GyhM0/mqdefault.jpg "Jordin Kare - Melodies So Deep [HQ]
Parody Violation track 12. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics (TTTO Dragons in the Deep, Cynthia McQuillin):
Melodies so deep,
A basss life is cheap
And even songs in key of C
May hide a deadly enemy
We pray the gods protect our throats
If we should try to hit those notes")
![Frank Hayes - Tinkers Daughter [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ysQjOQeUvvw/mqdefault.jpg "Frank Hayes - Tinkers Daughter [HQ]
Dont Ask track 05. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
When I was just a young man and I hadnt made my fame
I spent the night with a tinkers lass who left when the morning came
Its many years shes left me, and since shes gone away
But Im mad for the tinkers daughter, and I love her to this day
Chorus:
For theres many dark and lovely, and theres many fine and fair,
But Im mad for the tinkers daughter, and theres none that can compare.
Now a tinker is a rambler, and he wanders near and far
And the trueborn daughter of a tinkers bound to go from star to star
And to find her Ive crossed Hell itself and the Heavens up above
And Ive seen a thousand wonders, but I havent found my love
(Chorus)
Ive seen the golden cities and the golden women there
And Ive seen the green-eyed women of the wind with silver in their hair
Seen the dark and noble ladies, and a queen upon her throne,
But I search the worlds for the tinkers girl to take her for my own
(Chorus)
Now, love will make you crazy, and love will make you blind,
And love will make you search until you dont know what youll find,
And love will set you spinning so youll never find your way,
But Im mad for the tinkers daughter, and I love her to this day!
(Chorus x2)")
![Leslie Fish & the Dehorn Crew - John Barleycorn [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/z0Kqui8lXBI/mqdefault.jpg "Leslie Fish & the Dehorn Crew - John Barleycorn [HQ]
Its Sister Jennys Turn to Throw the Bomb track 02. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
There were three maids come from the west, their fortune to espy
And these three maids took a solemn oath that John Barleycorn must die
They buried him in three furrows deep, piled clods upon his head
Then these three maids took a solemn oath that John Barleycorn was dead
They let him lie for about three weeks, till the drops from Heaven did fall
Then little Sir John lifted up his head and so did amaze them all
They let him stand till Midsummers Day, when he looked both pale and wan
Then little Sir John grew a long, long beard and so became a man
Theyve hired the men with the scythes so sharp, to cut him off at the knee
And rolled him and tied him about the waist—they served him barbarously
Theyve hired the men with the crabtree sticks, for to thresh him skin from bone
And the miller has treated him worst of all, for hes ground him between two stones
And that was the death of John Barleycorn, but he lived to tell the tale
For theyve bunged him into an oaken vat and called him homebrewed ale
And the king he could not keep his court, nor the huntsman wind his horn
Nor the sailor sail, nor the plowman plow, without John Barleycorn")
![Bill Sutton - The Wizard of Macke Town [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zSI3S2tEFeg/mqdefault.jpg "Bill Sutton - The Wizard of Macke Town [HQ]
Past Due track 09. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
It started in a tavern on the edge of Macke Town
The talk had turned to stories of the night
He drank and laughed with all the rest and chilled them with his tales
Spoken in the shadowed eerie light
When all at once they noticed signs they had not seen before
No candles burned inside the tavern hall
The windows shuttered tightly and no light spread from the doors
The blacksmiths son glowed pale to light them all
Sword in hand and rein in hand he rides across the plain
Knowing as he gallops that he cant go home again
Born and raised in Macke Town, the blacksmiths only son
His neighbors hound and hunt him for a deed he has not done
Frightened by his wizards light, his old friends stay away
He finds himself abandoned and alone
His lifetime friendships shattered by a power undesired
His life destroyed by things he has not known
Then one day the Baron dies of no mere earthly cause
And all assign the blacksmiths son the blame
In the night they come to take him to his death upon the stake
He escapes into the dark that shrouds the plain
Sword in hand and rein in hand he rides across the plain
Knowing as he gallops that he cant go home again
Born and raised in Macke Town, the blacksmiths only son
His neighbors hound and hunt him for a deed he has not done
He rides the plain a year or more, searching for a sign
Of a sorcerer who murders village lords
And if he should find him he resolves to settle all
Bringing his name with power and a sword
So comes the day he finds a tower black against the sun
The power grips his body like a claw
It pulls him toward the tower where his shame may be avenged
And the castle is invaded by the pawn
He finds the sorcerer asleep secure within his spells
His rage fuels power to strike the wards away!
He slashes down with sharpened blade and takes the wizards head
And he feels his unknown power drain away
Sword in hand and rein in hand he rides across the plain
Knowing as he gallops that hes going home again
Born and raised in Macke Town, the blacksmiths only son
He brings his friends and neighbors proof of deeds he has not done
But when he rides in triumph back again to Macke Town
Relief at his salvation quickly dies
For though his power has vanished and he brings the murderers head
The village wisdom calls his claims a lie
Sword in hand and rein in hand he rides across the plain
Searching for a power that hell never find again
Born and raised in Macke Town, the blacksmiths only son
His neighbors hound and hunt him for a deed he has not done
His neighbors hound and hunt him for a deed he has not done!")
![Leslie Fish - Firestorm [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/zvl5goPo5nE/mqdefault.jpg "Leslie Fish - Firestorm [HQ]
Firestorm track 10. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Chorus:
Hey, hey, burned away
In the night on fire and the sunless day!
Ha, ha, rule of law!
Biggest lie you ever saw.
Small wars here and big crimes there
Make such a fine excuse
To put your life in the hands of the Man
Who will never turn you loose
Boss and bureaucrat, cop and preacher
We let them have their way—
They got power and all the Earth
We got hell to pay
(Chorus)
Trade your freedom and rights away
For their sworn security
Trash the Earth and spoil the waters
For a sound economy
Just pay your taxes and do your job
Be grateful youre working at all
Dont make waves or the law will get you
Fore this house of cards can fall
(Chorus)
Cops and soldiers, peace and war,
Thats where your money goes
Look how long last the summer droughts
And how black the winter snows
Was it a war or just pollution
That ate a hole in the sky?
Watch our bosses run for cover
And leave us here to die
(Chorus)
Came a night when the sky was red
And a day when the sky was black
And a roar of rage from the tortured millions
As they took their freedom back
Enough of laws, enough of orders
Enough of leaders and war
Just one pledge to a suffering world—
No rulers anymore
(Chorus)")
