The Stars are Gone

TTTO Peter Alway’s “<a href=”http://members.aol.com/petealway/Almeda2.mid”>Almeda Dance #2</a>” (originally an instrumental)

Context: “Spin” by Robert Charles Wilson

‘Cause we will all fall, and we will all land

But we don’t know where that place might be

So we’ll run and hide, we’ll not make a stand

And soon like Diane I know I’ll be

[Chorus]

When the Spin is on, and the night is black

We know not, guess not, when the stars come back

And the world will spiral down to hell

Since the time the black Spin curtain fell

[Chorus]

We have done some tests, and we see this now

From the universe we’re cut away

And although we tried, we cannot know how –

Time has been sped up and we will decay

[Chorus]

So we send them off to go settle Mars

For humanity must stay alive

But it’s not for long they will see the stars

They get Spinned there too, as soon as they thrive

[Chorus]

Bridge:

Stars in the sky are back, could it be the end is here?

How can we deal with that, ‘till now it has all been clear

What if we sail away, leave here all that we have known

With those who have the faith, with them we’ll not be alone

Still the Martian guy, he came from that place

With the drugs and nanobots and plan

We have took the drugs, the plan we embraced

And we now escape in that plain white van

[Chorus]

And the world will spiral down to hell

Since the time the black Spin curtain fell