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The Traveller
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There's something that I feel at niqht
That sometimes lasts till dawn.
I don't understand what it does to me
To make me feel so wrong.
But it has to do with when I live
And the people I'm supposed to know
Aad why I feel so all alone
And why I feel that I must go.
But no journey here can take me
To the place where I belong.
The end of my road is another Time,
So far away and long.
And I left Time not behind me,
But before me yet to be.
Still my Time is far beyond me
In a future I'll not see.
But for what reasons am I lost
And forced to live alone
In a Time three hundred years before
I'll know and see my home?
No memory brings it back to me
On some cold, cold long night,
For the Time in which my heart belongs
Was never in my sight.
Still I sense a friend who's far away
From where I live and be.
And I wonder, though I am without him,
Will he live without me?
For though I'm here for reasons
I may never understand,
In some future life, may I return
To my unknown homeland?
When I am gone, the mark I leave
Must push us one step more.
For, but for those of us lost in Time,
This world would be so poor.
Oh, future dreams from future minds
Are the only thing that lets us fly.
But future minds dreams of future nights,
When, home again, they never have to cry.
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Song for Petiron
01:42
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The tears I feel today
I'll wait to shed tomorrow,
Though I'll not sleep this night
Nor find surcease from sorrow,
My eyes must keep their sight;
I dare not be tear-blinded,
I must be free to talk
Not choked with grief, clear-minded.
My mouth cannot betray
The anguish that I know,
Yes, I'll keep my tears for later:
But my grief will never go.
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Tribbles
03:46
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The silent nights get lonely,
The daydreams go away.
I'm left with only night dreams
And little left to say.
My quarters, dark and empty,
A fortress made of glass,
Seems shattered all too
For I'm up to my ass in
Tribbles every place but here;
Their voices fill the air!
Their little furry faces gaze
At you from everywhere.
So far they've caused a major brawl,
A Trader's suicide;
The Klingons cleared this quadrant
Because they're on our side.
Now as Captain, I am quite obliged
To suffer this with cheer,
But after just one baby boom
The bridge is never clear of
Tribbles in the engine room --
Poor Scotty's at wits end.
Just when we think we've found the last,
They reproduce again!
They're eating all our food, our clothes,
Cosmetics, lubricants,
The turbo-lifts are choked with
Little uncles, little aunts.
There's nowhere we can run to
That isn't overrun;
They always come in families --
There's no such thing as one!
Now Spock is trying very hard
To study them his best,
He keeps requesting more
When all we want are less.
Tribbles in our toiletries
(In our toilets as well).
And if I had God's power
I would damn the lot to... well...
A life of sweet sterility
As key chains, powder puffs,
As doorknob warmers, catnip toys,
Pin cushions, false fur cuffs.
But life is back at half-light speed,
We're back on normal course.
The tribbles have been mailed away
(To the Klingons' great remorse).
But 'neath my pillow, late at night
I feel a tuft of fur.
Just as I think, "Oh, God! It can't be!"
I hear the tell tale purr of
Tribbles! Will they ever leave?
Oh, can we ever win?
It's really just beginning
When I thought it was the end.
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The Spaceman's Prayer
04:46
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A Last Evening's Dream
03:36
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Gambler's Lament
03:16
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Eulogy
02:44
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The Light That Died
02:39
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Homecoming
04:38
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Brekke's Lament
02:03
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When Love is Lost
01:58
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He's Dead, Jim
02:14
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After so long,
Guess I shouldn't complain;
There's always sunshine,
And not ever rain.
There's no neighbors shouting
At night when I'm home,
And I'm left completely alone.
Silence is golden
When you're in a crowd,
But silent aloneness
Is silent out loud.
Aloneness is cherished
Where men can't run free,
But no more aloneness for me.
The nighttime stars whisper
And cry in their sleep.
They want me to join them,
To share what they keep.
They shine and they sparkle,
And weep just for me.
They call me to beckon;
I know it can't be.
For silently lonely,
No friend by my side,
No virtue to cling to,
Not even my pride,
I stand in the star's light
And gaze toward my home.
Can a man die from being alone?
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Ballad to a Spaceman
03:36
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Born in the belly of a rocket ship,
As from Terra it did fly.
His first cries drowned by the engines' roar,
In no cradle did he lie.
He'd hit Santarra by the time he was four,
GalHydin when he was nine.
Born as a spaceman in a spaceman's bed,
And as a spaceman he would die.
He learned every course that a ship could take,
Found a few more on the side.
He learned new tricks every stop they'd make;
With the engines he would ride.
A spacer's pride was his swagger stick,
And his pride knew that he could survive.
He lived as a spaceman since the day he was born
And as a spaceman he would die.
They headed for Diversa in his trading years
When he'd just turned thirty-four.
The captain planned on a mighty pay
After running a load of ore.
The engine room gave him all they had,
But the captain ordered more.
They pumped 'em up to their hottest gain
Just to hear the rockets roar.
Five hundred miles 'bove the planet's ground,
The engines died away.
The captain called, "We need power now
Or we'll all die today!"
The spaceman said, "All the boys are dead
And I'm not far behind.
We've pulled much more than she's meant to take,
and the baffles have blown wide."
The captain said, "Well, do something man!"
And the Spaceman smiled wide/
"'cept hold the plates down with my bare hands,
We can't do nothing but enjoy the ride."
But the ground flew up with destructive speed,
And the Spaceman knew his mind
He couldn't sit in the engine room
And wait for his friends to die
So he turned and he put his hand inside
Where the engines used to glow
He found the plates and he held 'em fast:
"to quit's no way to go!"
And the rocket shook with a mighty roar
And the engines they did cry.
And the Spaceman smiled in the engine's glow.
For as a spaceman he would die.
They found the boys in the engine room;
By their stations they did lie.
The spaceman with his hands on a baffle plate
Was still sitting where he'd died.
They took them out, gave them to the stars;
Not a single spaceman cried.
For spacemen in the stars do live,
And in the stars they long to die
The Spaceman's life for his men did give,
And the stars would let him lie
He lived as a spaceman from the day he was born,
And as a spaceman, he did die.
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