1. |
Turning On Me
02:31
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LUNA
Well the planet turns and turns and turns and turns
While the planet burns and burns and burns and burns
Better fly away to the outer space
Before it turns and turns and turns on me.
ALL
Well the planet turns and turns and turns and turns
While the planet burns and burns and burns and burns
Better fly away to the outer space
Before it turns and turns and turns on me.
LUNA
This earth place, my birth place
Is a place I cannot be
Fall from grace, this rat race
Is turning on me, turning, turning on me
My only reprieve, my only escape
Is a one way ticket to deep space
But nobody leaves and nobody learns
While the planet turns and turns, turns and turns on me
If only men could put away their knives
If only men could let go of our throats
If only men could dignify our lives
If only we were more than suicide notes
ALL
If only we could speak our names on our tongue
If only we loved stars while they’re young
If only we could honor our sparkle, our shine
LUNA
I would travel time and space to find mine
ALL
I would travel time and space
This earth place, my birth place
She’s a monster running free
I’ll shift my shape to escape
What’s turning on me, hunting me, hunting me
My only reprieve, my only escape
Is a one way ticket to deep space
Cause nobody leaves and nobody learns
While the planet turns and turns, turns and turns on me
While the planet turns and turns, turns and turns on me
ALL
Well the planet turns and turns and turns and turns
While the planet burns and burns and burns and burns
Better fly away to the outer space
Before it turns and turns and turns on me.
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2. |
Luna
03:58
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LUNA
The view from the moon is clearer than ice
You see hurricanes vivid as bright city lights
You get all of the color, but none of that sound
You watch comets burn up that were once breaking ground
Such is the life of Luna
Such is the life of the
Girl on the Moon
Such is the life of Luna
Strapped to a comet I’ll be home soon
Radio to Houston, do you copy?
Radio to Houston, do you copy?
The view from the moon, so far away
Paints past as clear as the present day, present day
I watch this movie, tale old as Earth
But I don’t miss that, loneliness is worth
The view, Luna.
Radio to Houston, do you copy?
Radio to Houston, do you copy?
Nothing ever changes, lonely rock to lonely moon
If I were a comet, I’d be there in a flash I would be home soon
Bittersweet point of view, gazing gazing back at you
Pale and blue, what a view.
Such is the life of Luna
Such is the life of the
Girl on the Moon, the
Girl on the Moon
Such is the life of Luna
Radio to Houston, do you copy?
Do you copy?
Such is the life of Luna
Such is the life of the
Girl on the Moon
Such is the life of Luna
Radio to Houston, do you copy?
Do you copy?
Luna, Luna, Luna
Coming home, home, home, home, home, home, home, home
Soon (Radio to Houston, do you copy, do you copy?)
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3. |
Star Rise / Glowing Blue
05:08
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[STAR RISE]
MX. MAX
Take care, because your star burns bright one time
Take care, because the colors lose their shine, fade from the mind.
Take care, unite your constellation with every breath
Because your life’s shape shifts the space left by your death, your death.
Take care of the starry light in your eye
Take care the constellations you live by
Take care of the deep open spaces out there
Take care of the black holes grown wild from despair
Take care of your garden
Take care of your seeds
Take care to grow what your star body needs
As the universe takes shape in your eyes
Take care, Luna
Let your star body rise!
Let your star body rise!
Let your star body rise, rise, rise, rise!
MX. MAX
The birth of a galaxy can send a shock throughout the entire universe. It sends ripples through space/time, like a stone in water. So to feel such a radical shift, one must prepare, at some fundamental level, to be transformed by it. It’s molecular. Can you feel it?
[GLOWING BLUE]
LUNA
Something is stirring in my body, deep and low
Vibration filling up my skeleton from head to toe
I hear a calling that I buried in Queer Time so long ago
I feel it rising to the surface,
it is coming out my heart
What shall I call you?
What shall I call you?
Beautiful, fluorescent Blue.
Glowing blue.
Glowing blue.
Glowing blue.
And from my fingertips fly
Swirling bits of light
They warm me, transform me,
Make me visible in the night.
This might be the death of me
This sensation burning bright.
What shall I call you?
What shall I call you?
Beautiful, fluorescent Blue.
One from my fingers, flowing
One from her third eye, glowing
One from her chest, from her heart she is growing
She is glowing.
Glowing blue.
Glowing blue.
Glowing blue.
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4. |
Star Children
02:39
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LUNA
OW. That burns! Shit, that burns! Wha are you.. things?!
STARBODY 3
I… I don’t know. What am I? WHAT AM I??
STARBODY 2
Whatever I am I’m gonna need some coverage to keep my eyes from my OWN light, wow.
STARBODY 1
I am a body. A star glowing in Queer Time. (Referring to LUNA.) Who are you? WHAT are you?
LUNA
I… I am Luna. I’m a Shapeshifter. And I am… I’m your mom.
STARBODIES
Mama!!!!!!
Mama, mama, mama I can’t sleep
Mama, mama, my tummy’s rumbling
Mama, mama don’t know what to do with my body
(My body)
Mama, mama, mama carry me
Mama, mama, please stay and play with me
Mama, mama, I’m living outside of your body
(Your body)
We are fresh
We are new
We’re your heart living
Outside of you
We’re your joys (joys!)
We’re your cares (cares!)
We are 1, 2, 3 of your nightmares
We are stars
In the making, the buildin’
Mama, mama, mama, mama
We’re your Star children
Your star children
(Your star children)
Your star children (Your star children)
Your star children (Your star children)
Your star children (Your star children)
We are 1, 2, 3
Of your star children
Mama, mama don’t you ever leave
Mama, mama do I have a daddy
Mama, mama we’re shining outside of your body
(Your body, your body)
We are fresh
We are new
We’re your heart living
Outside of you
We’re your joys (joys!)
We’re your cares (cares!)
We are 1, 2, 3 of your nightmares
We are stars
In the making, the buildin’
Mama, mama, mama, mama
We’re your Star children
Your star children
(Your star children)
Your star children (Your star children)
Your star children (Your star children)
Your star children (Your star children)
We are 1, 2, 3
Of your star children
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5. |
Trick of the Light
03:03
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6. |
Intoxicator
02:47
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STARBODY 1
Mama, you’re greater than your Intoxicator
You don’t need to live that way.
I know your galaxy is so much greater.
Mama Luna stay away
Run far away from the
Intoxicator, Intoxicator from the
I
ntoxicator, Intoxicator, Intoxicator
It’s drinking you slowly sip by sip
Cup by cup.
Drip by drip.
It’s sipping you slowly,
Howler, get out!
The Intoxicator has got you, get out!\
STARBODIES
Mama, you’re greater than your Intoxicator
You don’t need to live that way.
I know your galaxy is so much greater.
Mama Luna stay away
Run far away from the
Intoxicator, Intoxicator from the
Intoxicator, Intoxicator, Intoxicator
STARBODY 1
No love greater than the star in your own heart.
Sooner or later your Starbody destiny will start
The stars inside of you can finally shine out through you.
Mama, it’s your galaxy,
Mama it’s your time.
STARBODIES
Then you will exorcise the Intoxicator
Open your eyes to who you are
Luna from planet Earth, your heart is strong
Your heart is a galaxy your heart is a song.
LUNA
I never knew love
I never knew joy
I never knew you
STARBODIES
But Mama Luna,
Mama Luna, we do
LUNA
I never knew love
I never knew joy
I never knew you
STARBODIES
But Mama Luna,
Mama Luna, we do
LUNA
I never knew love
I never knew joy
I never knew you
STARBODIES
But Mama Luna
,
Mama Luna, we do
We know you’re greater than your
Intoxicator.
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7. |
Luminosity
03:32
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STARBODY 2
Distance, color, light
Red, orange, white
And Blue’s
How I found you
Colors once a mystery
Now make up my history
And Blue’s
How I found you
You are luminous to my eyes
All your colors emphasize
The dignity that my heart wants to know
What makes your Starbody glow?
Stars making energy
Stars cooking synergy
Making love around me
Radiation, rare emission
Visible, unseen
From the corner of the sky
Over to me
From here I can see
Your luminosity
Your luminosity
And all I want to know
What makes your Starbody glow?
From this planet over here
I see beauty,
I see radiance,
I see fear
I take a trip through your dipper in the night
Your milky galaxy so full of light.
From here I can see
Your luminosity
Your luminosity
You are luminous to my eyes
All your colors emphasize
The dignity that my heart wants to know
What makes your Starbody
What makes your Starbody
What makes your Starbody
Glow?
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8. |
For Every Galaxy
03:35
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LUNA
Is this how it ends?
Is this how it ends?
In the abscess, in the absence,
In abstraction, in the abyss?
Is this how it ends?
Is this how it ends?
Clouds cover, clouds hover
Over mother, shoot, miss.
I am not the perfect child
I am not the perfect mother
I am not the home I left to find.
The home I built inside my mind.
I’m not beyond my violent past
This Starbody was not built to last.
This is it how it ends.
This is how it ends.
ALL
In the quiet of space
I listen to my thoughts race
Running at lightening pace
She’s got to drop this armor
That’s become her
And the Howlers that come for her
STARBODIES & MX. MAX
In the quiet of space
LUNA
This is how it ends. For every galaxy unseen by human eyes. This is how it ends. For every galaxy lost in the quiet of space. This is how it ends. For every galaxy crushed under the weight of black holes, this is how it ends. For every galaxy that slips quietly into the night. Every galaxy still in the making, and for every galaxy that changes its shape. In a vacuum where there is no sound let us be heard. In a black hole where there is no light, let us be seen. Let the planets turn and turn and turn and turn on us until we power the whole night sky.
]MX. MAX
Take care of the starry light in your eye
Take care the constellations you live by
Take care of the deep open spaces out there
Take care of the black holes grown wild from despair
LUNA
In darkness we are light.
STARBODIES & MX. MAX
Take care of your garden
Take care of your seeds
Take care to hold what your
Starbody needs as the
Universe takes shape in your eyes
LUNA
Billions of Stars whose only choice is to endure, endure, endure. My constellation. My constant elation. My stars.
STARBODIES & MX. MAX
Let your Starbody rise.
Let your Starbody rise
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9. |
The Space Between
04:38
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STARBODY 1
Shall I build my home on concrete,
Or rich, nutritious soil?
STARBODY 3
Shall I build my home on fire
That makes my bloodstream boil?
STARBODY 2
Shall I build my home on lunar rocks
That soar across the sky?
STARBODY 1
I will build my home in love
I will keep my time in love
STARBODY 3
Such is the life, such is the life,
Such is the life on the moon
Life on the moon
STARBODY 2
Future calling, I see you.
I hear my future calling.
STARBODIES
Time is mine anew
In the space between
Where I’ll meet you.
LUNA
Life’s not a Home for me to rest
Life can’t withstand the test
Of nature’s grim behest.
Life is built on solid earth
Caught between death and birth
In a folded paper universe
Well, tie your boots up tight
Lest you fall amidst your flight
As you run to corners
Of the sky unknown.
And the Space between
Life and Time
Becomes Home
Is Time a system so divine
Time demands I stay in line,
Or can I bend it, so crisp, so fine?
Time is only last and first
Binary of best and worst
In a folded paper universe
Well, tie your boots up tight
Time moves at the speed of light
As you grow beyond the body of a star
Life and Time and Home
Are where you are
If you reach the furthest limits
Of this interstellar plane
And you find its only darkness
That is there to greet your pain
And you’re certain you will never
Fall in orbit once again
Of the Space between
When Life passes so quickly
You cannot stop to scream
And it is
What it is is
Just you know
You’re not alone
'Cause the Space between
Life and Time
Is your Home.
LUNA
Let your stars be your guides.
Keep your stars in your eyes.
And my children.
Let your Starbodies…
ALL
Rise!
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10. |
Everything to Me
03:16
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LUNA
Sun, star, stirring
Striking, streaming far
Oh I see the beauty of
Your rising star.
When you spread your wings
And fly away so free
Your luminosity
Is everything to me
Your luminosity
Is everything to me
Past, present, future
That is what we are
Oh, I feel the fire of
Your rising star.
At sunrise you glow
And fly away so free
Your luminosity
Is everything to me
Your luminosity
Is everything to me
When you disappear
Behind the dust of lunar clouds
Baby, I’ll keep loving you
Til you come back around
Yes when you’re really ready
You’ll come show me all you’ve found,
I’ll meet you there.
I’ll meet you there.
Miracle in the making
That is what we are
Oh, I feel the beauty of
Our rising star
We will shine shine shine
For every galaxy
Our luminosity
Is everything to me
Our luminosity
Is everything to me
Our luminosity
Is everything to me, to me
Our luminosity
Is everything to me
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Truth Future Bachman Brooklyn, New York
TRUTH FUTURE BACHMAN (they/them/theirs) is a composer, vocalist, and writer of socially focused musicals. NYTimes:
“musically and vocally rich”, “golden voiced”, “soulful vocals” (Vulture). Featured in Teen Vogue. Select original work: Shapeshifters. FARMED: A Live Podcast Album, Horsemanship, Who Holds Us, Chasing Fear, and over ten full length musicals.
Artist in Residence: La Mama E.T.C.
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