Parody of “Thinking of You / The Cruel War”, words and music by
Jean Stevenson
and
traditional
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Reprinted from
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This parody was sung by
Julia Ecklar
on
Roundworm
Parody lyrics ©1988-06-17 by Bob Kanefsky. All rights reserved. The copyright of the original lyrics and music remain with the holder(s) of the original copyright.
This is about the dilemma facing the trio in the middle section of The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov.
/ / Wishing
/ / For a child to hold.
/ / Make me one,
/ / Lovers.
| The | G Sun | has been | Em cooling | / | / |
| That | Am feeds | us with its | B7 light | . / | / |
| Our | Em whole | popu | C la | tion / | / |
| May | D starve | in the | G night | . / | / |
/ /
Our whole population / /
Is dwindling in size, / /
We must find new sources / /
Before our demise. / /
/ In the setting Sun, /
/ Melancholy is my friend; /
/ And I grudge my love, dreading the day /
/ My life will someday end. /
/ /
We must find new sources. / / Trembling
Unlikely that we will. / / In the dark of night.
It's a cruel fact of Nature / / Comfort me,
That stars run downhill. / / Lover.
/ /
A cruel fact of Nature; / / Shivering
We're grasping now at straws / / In the winter chill.
As we look for a loophole / / Care for me,
In entropy's laws. / / Lover.
/ Sorrow seizes me / Needing
/ After every time we melt / You to warm our way.
/ And I search my soul, needing to know / Melt with us,
/ Why I should feel such guilt. / Lover.
/ /
/ Blending blissfully, / Worried
/ Passing days I can't recall. / You're so weak and thin.
/ So I starve myself, sensing a fate / Eat for us,
/ I feel I should forestall. / Lover.
/ /
We've found a solution: / Sorrow seizes me / Needing
A Universe outside. / After every time we melt / You to warm our way.
And both worlds will prosper; / And I search my soul, needing to know / Melt with us,
We'll serve as their guide. / Why I should feel such guilt. / Lover.
/ /
And both worlds will prosper, / Blending blissfully, / Worried
But not for very long; / Passing days I can't recall. / You're so weak and thin.
For their Sun will go nova / So I starve myself, sensing a fate / Eat for us,
Its size is all wrong. / I feel I should forestall. / Lover.
/ /
Their Sun will go nova: / /
Abundant heat and light! / /
It's a long-term solution / /
To our race's plight. / /
/ /
A long-term solution, / Such insanity! /
Though not without a cost. / You would lure them to their fall, /
For our own race's future, / When they trusted us, helping a plan /
A world must be lost. / You knew would kill them all! /
/ /
/ / Sorrow
/ / In the midst of joy.
/ / Join with us,
A world must be lost. / Kill . . . them . . . all! / Lover.
Sung with three overlapping voices, synching on the first stressed syllable of each verse.
I’m told even Technical Difficulties has never tried to do the original live; the version on tape was mixed in the studio.
