Six new songs

I've been busy over the last month producing the songs from their original rough form to a close to finished state. The update adds 6 new songs which continue the story.

• The Great Leader II
• Because We Must
• Ancient Wisdom
• Innovation
• Innovation II
• Selection

See the posts below for a little background, lyrics and links to the songs.

Only 4 more to go and 2 1/2 of them are done - just need to keep them in order :)

I also got some good feedback which has encouraged me to add some more narration (check the end of the very first song (Main Theme). I won't get the narration in until it's all finished, but it's coming.

Hope you enjoy the new songs.

Ian

Song 9 - The Great Leader II

One of the supporters beseaching the "great leader" to lead.
Enjoy the sax solo on the middle.

Song 9 0 The Great Leader II

Lyrics

Lead us through the flood and fire

Show us how to mend our land

Let us feed from your desire

Share with us your vision grand

Unite us with your words of wisdom

Show us to a better life

Lead us to the promised land

End our trouble and our strife

Song 10 - Because We Must

Because we must is sung by "the inspirational leader". In my mind this was a "JFK put a man on the moon" type of song and hopefully it delivers as one of the big songs. I'm still waiting for real bass and drums - and maybe adding a guitar, but the vocal in the chorus is the key for me.

The singer Élan Noelle is an amazing singer and has also also performed the track Anarchy II (Mi Casa Is Not Your Casa) and tracks 1,2 & 5 from Ruthers By Others Vol 1 - I'm a fan!

Song 10 - Because We Must

Lyrics

Let’s make a new start

To the future we must trust

Not because we want to

But because we must

Let’s draw from Columbus

Shackleton and Scott

Armstrong and Apollo

Gagarin, the Sputnik lot!

Find our men of science

Reclaim their treasure trove

Rebuild the lunar lander

Let Curiosity begin to rove

Harness the fighting spirit

Of the pioneers of old

Focus on what matters

Adventurous and bold

Chorus

I can see a new world calling

From the distance, beyond the sky

I can see a new beginning

Venture with me, let us try

I can feel my soul is calling

To a place I do not know

Yet I sense this time is nearing

Come along now, we must go

Song 11 - Ancient Wisdom

Ancient Wisdom drawn on the heroes of science - I couldn't resist tossing in an reference to "uncle" Ernest :)

This one still has a fake guitar solo and awaits my mate Birchy from Mu-Theory to lend a hand.
Also awaiting real drums and bass, but I think it sounds OK and it was blocking my objective to publish in track sequence. Watch for an update

Song 11 - Ancient Wisdom


Lyrics

Galileo, Newton, Einstein, 

Hubble and that crowd

In the libraries long forgotten

Ancient tomes from long ago

The grandeur and magnificence of science 

Edison and Faraday, 

Volta, Tesla, Watt

Orville and his brother Wilbur

Rutherford and Bohr

Goddard gave us liquid powered might

Chorus 

Learning from the elders

From ancient paper scrolls

From floppy disc and CD ROM

To fuel our stellar goals

Recapturing the wisdom

Of generations passed

Reignite our passion

To explore the cosmos vast

Song 12 - Innovation I

In Innovation I the Inventor works out the technology.

Song 12 - Innovation I


Lyrics

Eureka, I have found it!

It all makes perfect sense

Warp drive, black holes & Star Trek

Travel to a future tense

Spock and Kirk, it seemed fiction

Secrets hiding in plain sight

Cold war legacy for the taking

Can you believe that Gene* was right?

*Footnote:

Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and worked as a commercial pilot after the war

Song 13 - Innovation II

Having discovered the technology to travel the Inventors start the build.

The vocalist on this (same one as Song 12 - Innovation I) is an operatic tenor from NZ. I think he really adds a distinct character to the music.

Song 13 - Innovation II

Lyrics

I can build it, Will you journey?

Through the mystery of space-time

To a planet we imagine

To a blue and pleasant home

Far beyond our terra firma

Leave this poison waste behind

A new footprint for humanity

To a destiny sublime