(Excerpt from "Karnak's Dream of Life")
JANE:
I KNOW THIS DREAM OF LIFE IS NEVER-ENDING
IT GOES AROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AGAIN
YOU KNOW THE SUN IS RISING WHILE DESCENDING
IT GOES ON AND ON AND NEVER ENDS
(Uranium Suite, Official Cast Recording)
OCEAN:
URANIUM
CHOIR(-RICKY - JANE):
URANIUM
THAT'S OUR TOWN
OUR FRIENDLY TOWN
OCEAN:
URANIUM
CHOIR:
URANIUM
THAT'S OUR TOWN
OUR HIGHWAY TOWN
CHOIR(-NOEL, underneath next line):
(OOH)
NOEL:
THE SKY IS ALMOST BLUE HERE
GRAIN ELEVATORS TOO, HERE
CHOIR(+NOEL):
THE PRIDE AND JOY OF SWEET SASKATCHEWAN
CHOIR(-CONSTANCE):
(OOH)
CONSTANCE:
WE CAME HERE FOR THE HALF-LIFE
AND STAYED HERE FOR OUR WHOLE LIFE
CHOIR(+CONSTANCE):
TO GIVE THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD PLUTONIUM!
OCEAN:
URANIUM
CHOIR:
URANIUM
THAT'S OUR TOWN
OUR FRIENDLY TOWN
OH NO NO
WE WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS TOWN AT ALL!
(Waiting for the Drop, 2018 Seattle)
[CHOIR](-RICKY, -JANE)
Secure all your items, strap in and hold on for the ride
And keep your hands inside
Oh, it's about to begin
I'm bursting within
Climbing, rising higher
Feel my face against the wind
Looking down at it all
At the ants caught in their everyday strife
[NOEL]
My God, this ride is like my life
Take me up and away
Above this small town cliché
[CHOIR]
To leave this place behind
Oh, I'm just waiting for the day
But at the top of the peak
There's a moment where you're king of the world!
And suddenly you're hurled over
Up and then down
Towards the carnival ground
Screaming, join the crazy twisted symphony of sound!
Oh, how I love to hear every kind of music
[MISCHA & NOEL]
Blasting in my ears
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
Guns 'n' Roses
Chopped Diva
Beatles
Oh, how lovely
It smells like cotton candy
[NOEL & MISCHA]
Corn dogs and rancid beers
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
Colored lights and people screaming
Light as reeling
Light as dreaming
[CHOIR]
Take me higher, no, no
[NOEL & MISCHA]
I never want to stop
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
Stomach churning
Falling money
Kind of freaky
Kind of funny
[CHOIR]
Tick-a, tick-a, tick-a, tick-a
Tick-a, tick-a, tick-a, tick-a
Whooooooaaaaa
Just waiting for the drop
Ooh...
Ooh...
Aah!!!
[JANE]
Aaaaaaaaaah!!!
(Tragic Fact, 2013 Citadel)
Choir:
Then of course they closed the mine
The town was broke by '99
They closed the public school and city hall
The smart ones all packed up and went
Why stay if you can't pay the rent
A greeter at the mega shopping mall
It's a fact, it's a fact, just another tragic fact
We will never leave this town at all
Our folks, it seems, were too entwined
Stubborn, wouldn't change their mind
Hoping bust might turn right back to boom
Cross their fingers, pray for luck
Bow down to the mighty buck
Waiting in this godforsaken tomb
Empty people, empty mind
Living life or killing time
A dead-end town against a dead-end wall
There's nothing cute and nothing sweet
This town has only one main street
Let me face my boredom at the mall
It's a fact, it's a fact, just another tragic fact
We will never leave this town at all...
Aaah
Aaa-aaahh
(Fall Fair Suite, 2016 Off Broadway)
[JANE (tracked)]
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
[OCEAN]
What a load of freaking junk!
That crusty carnie, clearly drunk!
Sue that fair for everything they've got!
[NOEL]
What's the point of even suing?
Dead, we're done! There's no undoing!
Nothing left to do except to rot!
[MISCHA]
Sex? Oh God, why did I wait?
[OCEAN]
Now, I'll never graduate!
[CONSTANCE]
I hope I wiped my browser history clean!
[CHOIR]
Why did I even go to class?
Algebra 12, kiss my ass!
[MISCHA]
Now I know what "YOLO" really means!
[OCEAN]
Carpe diem!
[CHOIR]
What a lovely theme!
[NOEL]
C'est la vie!
[CHOIR]
Life is just a dreeeaam!
Just a dream!
(Brief instrumental possibly from The Uranium Suite or 2015 Fall Fair Suite)
(Minor Turn, 2016[?] OR Fall Fair Suite, 2015)
CHOIR:
And then you're sailing through space
You don't know up from down
And you feel a little strange
From all that spinning round
And everything you loved
And everything you dreamed
And everything you feared
And everything that seems so
Oh, so terrifying
Is far behind on the ground
Like our far-from-the-city-little-itty-bitty-pretty hometown
Just a teeny tiny dot
On a wee blue ball
And we've all been spinning
[MISCHA, NOEL]
All been spinning
[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]
-been spinning
(Waiting for the Drop, 2018 Seattle)
[CHOIR](+ RICKY)
Round and round and round
And round and round
Round and round
And round and round and round
And round and round
Round and round and-
[MISCHA & NOEL & RICKY]
Every kind of music
Blast in my ears
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
All those colored lights
Oh oh oh...
[MISCHA & NOEL & RICKY]
Cotton candy and rancid beers
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
I gotta wear shades 'cause the future's so bright!
[MISCHA & NOEL & RICKY]
Take me higher, no, no
I never want to stop
[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]
Never gonna bring me down, down...
[MISCHA & NOEL & RICKY]
Take me up, right up to the top
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
I'll never put my feet on the ground
[MISCHA & NOEL & RICKY]
Every kind of music, blastin' in my ears
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
My life was about to start
[MISCHA & NOEL & RICKY]
Cotton candy and rancid beers
[CONSTANCE & OCEAN]
We never should have got into that rickety cart
[CHOIR]
Take me higher...
Wait!
Are we still on the track?
Uh-oh!
Down to the drop, now I know
Whoooooooaaaaaaa!!
(Fall Fair Suite, 2016 Off Broadway)
[CHOIR (JANE)](-RICKY)
Down the drop now I know we're never going back!
But what really happens?
What really happens?
(Aah! Aah!)
What's going to happen next?
(Excerpt from "It's Not A Game/It's Just A Ride")
JANE:
I KNOW THIS DREAM OF LIFE IS NEVER ENDING
IT GOES AROUND AND ROUND AND ROUND AGAIN
