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Please Stand By track 08. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Could you please explain?
Why do I feel pain?
Why do I care what these humans do?
And how could they mean so damn much to you?
Take me by the hand
And please make me understand
Why I'm suffering now; does death hurt this bad?
Oh, impart upon me the wisdom you had
It infuriates me that they suffer for thee
Why didn't they do something then?
Don't speak of the logic, because, dammit, it's not fair
Someone else could go,
Someone I don't know
Someone I don't see,
Someone I don't need
Mentor, please forgive
What advice now would you give?
I am young and alone, and I foul all I do
Who will show me the way, if it not be you?
Can I not call you back, just once more, to my side?
Oh, forgive my weak flesh, but when you left I cried
Like the humans, I cried
Please Stand By track 08. 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:
Could you please explain?
Why do I feel pain?
Why do I care what these humans do?
And how could they mean so damn much to you?
Take me by the hand
And please make me understand
Why I'm suffering now; does death hurt this bad?
Oh, impart upon me the wisdom you had
It infuriates me that they suffer for thee
Why didn't they do something then?
Don't speak of the logic, because, dammit, it's not fair
Someone else could go,
Someone I don't know
Someone I don't see,
Someone I don't need
Mentor, please forgive
What advice now would you give?
I am young and alone, and I foul all I do
Who will show me the way, if it not be you?
Can I not call you back, just once more, to my side?
Oh, forgive my weak flesh, but when you left I cried
Like the humans, I cried
![Technical Difficulties - One Final Lesson [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HTsgM4ih-Is/mqdefault.jpg "Technical Difficulties - One Final Lesson [HQ]
Please Stand By track 08. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
Download the album here: https://archive.org/details/filk_please_stand_by/
Lyrics:
Could you please explain?
Why do I feel pain?
Why do I care what these humans do?
And how could they mean so damn much to you?
Take me by the hand
And please make me understand
Why Im suffering now; does death hurt this bad?
Oh, impart upon me the wisdom you had
It infuriates me that they suffer for thee
Why didnt they do something then?
Dont speak of the logic, because, dammit, its not fair
Someone else could go,
Someone I dont know
Someone I dont see,
Someone I dont need
Mentor, please forgive
What advice now would you give?
I am young and alone, and I foul all I do
Who will show me the way, if it not be you?
Can I not call you back, just once more, to my side?
Oh, forgive my weak flesh, but when you left I cried
Like the humans, I cried")
![Bob Kanefsky/Leslie Fish - Filksingers, Filksingers [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IHvhnpSgaEk/mqdefault.jpg "Bob Kanefsky/Leslie Fish - Filksingers, Filksingers [HQ]
Tapeworm I track 8. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
A harsh noise echoed throughout the hotel
Till the chandeliers shook in distress.
A noise shrill and piercing as harpies in heat,
With much less restraint and finesse.
So loud was the filksing, so raucous and wild,
The microphones started to burn.
A fool could have told it was no night to be
Too timid in claiming one’s turn.
Chorus:
Filksingers, filksingers, won’t you be kind?
I’ve been here since yesterday morning, you see.
Filksingers, filksingers, let me go next!
And I’ll try not to sing out of key.
He sat there alone at the back of the room.
He was pale, and he shook with fatigue.
His hands were clenched whitely upon his guitar.
It was plain he was out of his league.
“It won’t be your turn for an hour,” they said,
“An hour until it comes ’round.
Be sure that you get our attention next time;
We missed you there, slumped on the ground.”
(Chorus)
The filksing wore on; it lasted all night,
With the songs getting more and more gross.
Grimly one filksinger clung to the spotlight
And sang twenty minutes of ose.
The boy in the corner sat slumped in defeat:
The filkers had missed him once more.
They’d seemed not to notice his feeble attempts
To rise from his spot on the floor.
(Chorus)
“I hear that the ghost reappeared here last night,”
The janitor said with a yawn.
“It certainly did,” said the bellboy who brought
The pitchers of water at dawn.
“They say the convention that killed the poor kid
Was held here the same time last year,
And now any night that they sing in this room,
That spirit is like to appear.”
(Chorus)
“A ghost? At the filksing?” the filksingers asked,
And some of them paled with fright.
“Oh yes, folks, and that’s why we can’t hire a bellboy
Who’ll dare bring you water at night.
The poor fellow died of no food and no sleep,
And no way to keep himself warm.
His soul must be bound by some unfulfilled wish,
Some last act he has to perform.”
(Chorus)")
![Jordin Kare - Two Note [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ie01HovFB-w/mqdefault.jpg "Jordin Kare - Two Note [HQ]
Parody Violation track 1. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics (TTTO Troll Hall, Leslie Fish):
I am tall, I am strong, I sing deep like a bass
I love blood, I love gore, I kill flies with a mace
Yes, its ose that I love; sing no cheerful songs, please.
Damn your notes, damn your tunes, damn your keys!
Learned my style from an Asprin [Robert Asprin], my songs from a Fish [Leslie Fish]
Learned to pick, learned to strum, learned to sing? Dont you wish!
Now my plan is revealed, Ill bring filk to its knees.
Damn your notes, damn your tunes, damn your keys!")
![Jordin Kare - Fuel to Feed the Drive [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J06jtebxWQc/mqdefault.jpg "Jordin Kare - Fuel to Feed the Drive [HQ]
Parody Violation track 4. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics (Cynthia McQuillin):
A hundred parsecs out, on a ship called Bormans Fate,
The engineer McClellan sent the word up to the mate:
Our engines growing cold, he said, and soon our ship must die,
If we cant find a planet with fuel to feed the drive.
Now our ships a noble lady, and our captain he is true,
But our engineer is no ones god, no angels in our crew
If we cant find an answer soon, nobody will survive
Why cant we find some blasted rock with fuel to feed the drive?
What prayer can stir the gods of space who dwell beyond the stars?
What mortal words can help or heal an engine without power?
And will we drift forever? Lost between the stars, we strive
To find a single planet with fuel to feed the drive.
The screen grows bright, a world weve found, of rock and ice and steel
If only we can make it there, pray the coils hold the field
Hope flares anew: our fields will hold, our engine will survive,
Its a hell of a world but theres hydrogen to feed our dying drive.
So once again we fly through space, this void beyond the stars.
Who knows what ruin may take us, what evil fate is ours?
As long as our ship is able, we will ply the stars and thrive,
As long as we are granted fuel to feed the drive,
As long as we are granted fuel to feed the drive.")
![UnReal Estate 13 - Dream Ship [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JKhFwl5WvlA/mqdefault.jpg "UnReal Estate 13 - Dream Ship [HQ]
Sung by Bill Roper. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Dream, sailing your ship through space.
Dream, here in this silent place.
Sail away on the solar wind.
Silver sails take you back again,
Light reflecting in
Gleaming thread like the spiders spin
Guide your way.
Sail away.
Dream, sailing among the stars.
Dream, put into port at Mars.
Reddened world in a darkened sky.
Load supplies and away you fly,
Phobos passing by,
You can touch it if you want to try.
On this day,
Sail away.
Dream, sailing the solar tide.
Dream, gossamer sail spread wide.
Catch the light of the trailing sun.
Sailing on till your journeys done—
Make another one.
New voyages just begun.
On your way,
Sail away.
Away...")
![Frank Hayes - Dont Ask [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JMekR1Eq1Ig/mqdefault.jpg "Frank Hayes - Dont Ask [HQ]
Dont Ask track 01. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
The orders come down, and they march us away;
Theres a battle to fight, and we join in the fray
God, its hell when you know this could be your last day...
But its better than working for Xerox!
So march, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, well fight every day!
And its fare thee well, all vestige of modesty:
All of the Dorsai are singing.
Some go for the glory, some just like to fight
But the truth is we Dorsai are not very bright
Well steal or well screw what we cant shoot on sight—
God, its hell to encounter a fireplug!
So march, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, well fight every day!
And its fare thee well, all vestige of harmony:
All of the Dorsai are drinking.
We Dorsai have Honor. We always fight fair—
Except when were losing, and then we dont care,
For defeat is disgrace that we never could bear...
And we only get paid when were winning.
So march, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, well fight every day!
And its fare thee well, all vestige of honesty:
All of the Dorsai are cheating.
When the battle is over and the fighting is done,
If ten of us made it, we figure weve won
Cause we count the survivors, and count them by one, two, three,
Four, five, six, seven, eight, nine...many...
So march, March, April, May, June, July,
August, September, well fight every day!
And its fare thee well, all vestige of comedy:
All of the Dorsai are counting.")
![Bill Sutton - Crystal Singer [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jthp-dp5Fic/mqdefault.jpg "Bill Sutton - Crystal Singer [HQ]
Past Due track 02. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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[book: Crystal Singer series, Anne McCaffrey]
Lyrics:
The whirlwind of the morning air harmoniously sighs
And echoes from the facets of the cliffs into the skies
We singers of the crystal must begin another day
Forgetting all the beauty in our need to make it pay
The sled may lift us far above the walls of crystal stone
And we may not remember all the claims weve called our own—
But now we fly and now we sing and listen for the sound
Of crystal veins that sing reply from cold and barren ground
Though I have flown a thousand miles and still must fly as far
I now recall the place I found my pure black crystal spar!
My comp reminds me as I fly of things that I must do
And warns me of the dangers that may keep me from my due
Suddenly the bells ring out, the whine assails my ears
A sonic storm is moving in—sled, get me out of here!
The skies light up, the blasts of wind are rising to a peak
And every passing moment takes me from the black I seek
Racing the wind, running from the storm,
Escaping from the violence to a shelter safe and warm
The storm moves ever faster, and ever louder calls
The sled gives out an anguished cry as to the storm it falls
I waken to the howl of wind resounding in my ears
The nurse the Guild provides for me stands forth to dry my tears
She cannot understand my weeping or the reason why—
I have forgotten once again where my black crystals lie
We singers of the crystal live for over eightscore years
But you who live a shorter span can never know our fears
Your memories may reach across a gulf ours cannot span—
Remembering makes you the life and me the empty man
The sled may lift us far above the walls of crystal stone
And we may not remember all the things weve called our own—
But now we fly and now we sing and listen for the sound
Of crystal veins that sing reply from cold and barren ground")
![Free Fall & Other Delights 18 - Helvas Song [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/K5gpBzTsGSY/mqdefault.jpg "Free Fall & Other Delights 18 - Helvas Song [HQ]
Sung by Cecilia Eng. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
My sister and my brother ships speak softly by my side
But I only hear the emptiness of space
And a siren song which calls to me from a burning, white-hot star
Promising oblivion and peace
Chorus:
And the stars still dance the spiral dance,
And the planets circle far
But the ship who sang will sing no more
Between the distant stars
Ill sing no more.
For my love lies dead within me, his voice forever still
It seems as though my heart will never mend
The musics died unfinished, his song is at an end
Well never sing again
(Chorus)
Now I could turn and fly away, a rogue without a home
And turn my back on all that we have known
But a hundred years is far too long to live on nothing more
Than memories and heartache, all alone
(Chorus)
So here, upon this lonely field, Ill bid my love goodbye
The honors at his graveside are the best
And somehow I will find my voice and fill the silent plain
Yes, Ill sing him to his rest
And the stars will dance the spiral dance,
And the planets circle far
And the ship who sang will sing once more
Between the distant stars
Ill sing once more.
And the ship who sang will sing once more
Between the distant stars
Ill sing once more.")
![UnReal Estate 08 - Falling Down on New Jersey [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KIyVQ0kZTCk/mqdefault.jpg "UnReal Estate 08 - Falling Down on New Jersey [HQ]
Sung by Mitchell Burnside Clapp. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Its a damn tough life far from home and wife
That we astronauts undergo,
And we dont much care when the missions done
How far the ship did go.
But youll be sad to learn our deorbit burn
Wont be made, for our tanks are empty,
And the fuel lines torn, so youd better warn
All the folks in New Jersey.
Chorus:
Falling down on New Jersey, me boys,
Falling down on New Jersey,
We thought it wise we apologize
To the folks in New Jersey.
Well its widely known that a ship alone
Would be burned up and destroyed,
But the ship and crew, we brought with us too
An eleven-mile asteroid.
So when youve awoken all the folks in Hoboken
And the profs at Princeton too,
Well divulge the fact that the rocks impact
Will be at seven thirty-two.
(Chorus)
Well now, why the shock? Hell, its just a rock.
Are we just alarmist fools?
But it has, you see, potential energy
Of roughly ten to the nineteenth joules.
With the rocks advance, there is Buckleys chance
That the Garden Statell be spared,
And soon well show, if you didnt know,
That e is mc squared.
(Chorus)
We will strike a spark thatll toast Newark
And will flatten Perth Amboy.
Well, it wont be pretty in Atlantic City,
You should shade your eyes in Troy.
Even so—and yet—we have one regret:
That we havent the delta-V
To push it forth just a few miles north
To land smack on NYC.
(Chorus x2)")
![Bill Sutton - Cruiser Dreaming [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KKVCDIGTgoM/mqdefault.jpg "Bill Sutton - Cruiser Dreaming [HQ]
Past Due track 13. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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[book: Kerrion Empire series, Janet E. Morris]
Lyrics:
She is always on my mind as she lies in space
She is mine in my thoughts embrace
In time I am hers, out of time she waits through me
But how much longer can this be?
Chorus:
Cruiser dreaming
Dancers seemings
Can never be as real as sponge is
To my ship and me
Starlight haunts us
Cruiser consciousness is
Wrapped around the stars
And through eternity
Though she is infinity, she is a point in time
She one with others of her line
She speaks and she hears, she guides and understands
How can she be a work of man?
(Chorus)
In another time and place, she would share my bed
Here and now, we share dreams instead
Her body is anothers, but her soul belongs to me
Someday we two will be set free
(Chorus x2)")
![Leslie Fish & the Dehorn Crew - Dark Rosaleen [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KaKSfyOF6bc/mqdefault.jpg "Leslie Fish & the Dehorn Crew - Dark Rosaleen [HQ]
Its Sister Jennys Turn to Throw the Bomb track 04. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
O my dark Rosaleen, do not sigh, do not weep!
The priests are on the ocean green, they march along the deep.
There’s wine from the royal Pope upon the ocean green;
And Spanish ale shall give you hope, my Dark Rosaleen!
O Róisín Dubh!
Shall glad your heart, shall give you hope,
Shall give you health, and help, and hope,
O Róisín Dubh!
Over hills, and thro’ dales, have I roam’d for your sake;
All yesterday I sail’d with sails on river and on lake.
The Erne, at its highest flood, I dash’d across unseen,
For there was lightning in my blood, my Dark Rosaleen!
O Róisín Dubh!
O, there was lightning in my blood,
Red lightning lighten’d thro’ my blood.
O Róisín Dubh!
All day long in unrest, to and fro do I move.
The very soul within my breast is wasted for your love!
This heart in my body faints to think of you, my Queen,
My life of life, my saint of saints, my Dark Rosaleen!
O Róisín Dubh!
To hear your sweet and sad complaints,
My life, my love, my saint of saints,
O Róisín Dubh!
Woe and pain, pain and woe, are my lot, night and noon,
To see your bright face clouded so, like unto the mournful moon.
But yet will I rear your throne again in golden sheen;
‘Tis you shall reign and reign alone, my Dark Rosaleen!
O Róisín Dubh!
‘Tis you shall have the golden throne,
‘Tis you shall reign and reign alone,
O Róisín Dubh!
Over dews, over sands will I fly, for your weal:
Your holy delicate white hands shall circle me with steel.
At home, in your emerald bowers, from morning’s dawn till e’en,
You’ll pray for me, my flower of flowers, my Dark Rosaleen!
O Róisín Dubh!
You’ll think of me through daylight’s hours
My virgin flower, my flower of flowers,
O Róisín Dubh!
I could scale the blue air, I could plough the high hills,
Or I could kneel all night in prayer, to heal your many ills!
And one beaming smile from you would float like light between
My toils and me, my own, my true, my Dark Rosaleen!
O Róisín Dubh!
Would give me life and soul anew,
A second life, a soul anew,
O Róisín Dubh!
O, the Erne shall run red with redundance of blood,
The earth shall rock beneath our tread, and flames wrap hill and wood,
And gun-peal and slogan-cry wake many a glen serene,
Ere you shall fade, ere you shall die, my Dark Rosaleen!
O Róisín Dubh!
The Judgement Hour must first be nigh,
Ere you can fade, ere you can die,
O Róisín Dubh!")
![Technical Difficulties - Break Forth [HQ]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/KoypuevTPpc/mqdefault.jpg "Technical Difficulties - Break Forth [HQ]
Please Stand By track 09. Thanks to rocketman0739 for providing high-quality versions of these songs.
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Lyrics:
Break forth from gravitys fearsome well
Amid the engines roaring
Each ship in which our spirits dwell
Into the aether soaring
This quest though now in infancy
The future of our world shall be
The power of ignorance breaking
Our newest frontier making")
