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Valley of Silence III: The Age of Starlight

by Sam Barber and the Outcasts

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1.
I knew my place on the cosmic grid Those three dimensions were more than I needed I was quite happy with old (x), (y), (z) Then that (t) vector came and scunnered me In what direction does time’s arrow flow That’s the piper we can’t help but follow We are travellers in space and time Albert saw curves in Issac’s straight lines Tick tock baby, c’mon let’s prove That time slows down the faster you move There’s no constant we can identify Beyond entropy and the speed of light The way of spacetime is a little strange Bend it enough and you’re in yesterday Pay no heed to what old Delmore said Time is just a concept in our heads We are travellers in space and time Albert saw curves in Issac’s straight lines Tick tock baby, c’mon let’s prove That time slows down the faster you move Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe Copernicus, Hubble, Galileo all say We are travellers in space and time Albert saw curves in Issac’s straight lines Tick tock baby, c’mon let’s prove That time slows down the faster you move
2.
Have you heard the theory of the great attractor? This pulling power’s got to be seen to be believed He’s got an appetite for a virgin cluster The local groups are going all weak at the knees But he lives in a void so lonely In the midst of the blackest sea He’s lost count of the cosmic conquests They don’t seem to make him happy Have you heard the theory of the zone of avoidance? That’s where the great attractor bids his starry hareem He’s out of sight because night is his poison Keep your eyes on the prize when he enters the scene But he lives in a void so lonely In the midst of the blackest sea He’s lost count of the cosmic conquests They don’t seem to make him happy But he lives in a void so lonely In the midst of the blackest sea He’s lost count for cosmic conquests They don’t seem to make him happy
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Neptune 04:18
I’ll make my home where the wind blows Faster than the eye can follow Outside it’s two hundred degrees below You’ll catch your death upon the surface But at her core it’s like a furnace Burning on out in the great unknown I once caught a glimpse, but it faded from view Lost amid the street lamps and the glare of the moon Still I try to locate her with maximum zoom And if you swing back around, girl I’m waiting for you Where skies of blue go on forever We’ll find a way to be together I need your touch like an oxygen flow I guess you got just what you came for But I can’t let go, yes please, I want more I can’t watch you slip into the clouds below I once caught a glimpse, but it faded from view Lost amid the street lamps and the glare of the moon Still I try to locate her with maximum zoom And if you swing back around, girl I’m waiting for you Man, I once caught a glimpse, but it faded from view Lost amid the street lamps and the glare of the moon Still I try to locate her with maximum zoom And if you swing back around, girl I’m waiting for you I can’t stand by when i’ve seen what could be I can’t just delete the memories of what you do to me Oh darling, please
4.
Hypergiant 03:43
I spun the dial, I zoomed in And happened on the most peculiar thing A brand new star; the brightest point of light I’d seen so far Had to go to her; her luminosity proved too much of a lure So all the best advice I went against when I moved in Love sprung forth like a supernova Now we’re circling each other over and over Love grew into a hypergiant Whose magnetic fields we’ve both come to rely on And I don’t mind if you don’t too She’s of a higher spectral class Than all the superstars and bright young things that pass Across my sky; daylight breaks and she’s the reason why Quickens the pulsar when our orbital planes collide Her prominences bring water to the eye ~ but that’s all right Love sprung forth like a supernova Now we’re circling each other over and over Love grew into a hypergiant Whose magnetic fields we’ve both come to rely on And I don’t mind if you don’t too And I don’t mind if she fills up the sky Honey I don’t care if I wake up and Earth’s no longer there Such is our love Can you feel it now Love sprung forth like a supernova Now we’re circling each other over and over Love grew into a hypergiant Like the third from the right in the belt of Orion And I don’t mind if you don’t too So let our worlds collide I don’t care if I’m blinded by the light
5.
Sedna 03:09
I’m on the edge of the abyss Where there’s no sunlight for me to miss I’ve just myself for company But I’m as happy as I can be So here I am, circling alone Between the understood and the unknown A circle of ten thousand years Comets pass and stars disappear Last outpost in the borderland A distant speck on your horizon Noone’s ever seen my face Shut in the freezer of outer space Beyond Neptune the sun goes dim The only place around here where I fit in So here I am, circling alone Between the understood and the unknown A circle of ten thousand years Comets pass and stars disappear Last outpost in the borderland A distant speck on your horizon When the sun goes supernova I’ve nothing to fear When life on earth is long gone I’ll still sing out my song Out here the show will go on sha la la la, la la la sha la la la la sha la la la sha la la la la
6.
Rhea 03:19
I got a letter sayin’ I better pay up Or they gonna break down the door She left a note sayin’ boy you better wake up Wages of sin ain‘t gonna keep me no more Last night out on the street the folks got rowdy Now the street is quiet and the pavement’s red The sun is high but the sky is cloudy And there’s a sinking feeling in my head Is it the same for everybody?Do they see things like I do? Or is it all in my own projection? Gotta pray good times are comin’ soon I only smile when pissed or high now In the morning I don’t remember why Just hurt myself and bring all my friends down Mislead those to whom I don’t directly lie But I‘ll step outside, put the act on once more Convince everyone but it makes me ill ’Cause in the end no-one I truly care for Really knows me and they never will Is it the same for everybody?Do they see things like I do? Or is it all in my own projection? Gotta pray good times are comin’ soon
7.
I dig in my heels, I won’t give in Ain’t come this far out to let gravity win The weakest force will never conquer me I will resist the drag of destiny ‘Cause I want to believe that not everything is lost When our history disappears into a full stop I want to believe there’s no reason to give up I want to believe that there’s more to the universe than us The universe will not end technically But each star will die until nothing can be seen Then night will fall and last a trillion years While black holes eat up whatever perseveres But I want to believe that not everything is lost When our history disappears into a full stop I want to believe there’s no reason to give up I want to believe that there’s more to the universe than us I want to believe that not everything is lost When our history disappears into a full stop I want to believe there’s no reason to give up I want to believe that there’s more to the universe than us And when the stars go out our love will carry on And when the stars go out our love will carry on And when the stars go out our love will carry on And when the stars go out our love will carry on And when the stars go out our love will carry on And when the stars go out our love will carry on

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released June 2, 2012

Written by Sam Barber. Performed by Sam Barber and the Outcasts. Produced by Sam Barber. © 2012 SBTO. All rights reserved.

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