HW: Need Help on Paper

[M Holmes]

> <chuck at GENESISNETWORK.NET> wrote:

> >I will distribute to the class copies of several pieces, probably 10
> >Seconds, Awakening, Spirit of the Age, Sonic Attack, Warrior On The
> Edge of
> >Time, etc, to read.

I'd have thought "Warrior" might be a bit too cheesy. Maybe The Joker of
the Universe and Note From a Cold Planet would be more interesting?

Here's some Moorcock stuff he did for Hawkwind. Calvert Poetry appended
after that.


Arrival In Utopia
=================

We dreamed of golden shining towers
Of lazy days and thrilling hours
Fields of wonder, streets so fair
Of amber ships which sailed, through the air

Dreamed of steel and glass and wire
Of days of wine and nights of fire
Dreamt of dogs that talked like boys
Of girls who flew, of unnamed joys

And now our dreams are true
We don't know what to do
For we don't like it here
There's nothing for us to fear
Bored mindless in Utopia



BLACK CORRIDOR
( - Moorcock - )
Space is infinite, it is dark
Space is neutral, it is cold
Stars occupy minute areas of space
They are clustered a few billion here
And a few billion there
As if seeking consolation in numbers
Space does not care, space does not threaten
Space does not comfort
It does not sleep, it does not wake
It does not dream
It does not hope, it does not fear
It does not love, it does not hate
It does not encourage any of these qualities
Space cannot be measured, it cannot be
angered, it cannot be placated
It cannot be summed up, space is there
Space is not large and it is not small
It does not live and it does not die
It does not offer truth and neither does it lie
Space is a remorseless, senseless, impersonal fact
Space is the absence of time and of matter




Choose Your Masks
=================

They're handing out the weapons
And your armour's ready too
But the most important item
Has been left up to you
You must make a firm decision
And once it's made you'll find
That the form that you have chosen
Can entirely fill your mind

For the mask you have selected
Stands for Chaos or for Law
And you cannot take it off now
'til you're no longer in the War
And the Masks of War are grinning
And from under them you howl
Out the slogans of the part you play
for the Battle's starting now

Choose your Masks
The ranks are forming
Choose your Masks
The day is dawning
Choose your Masks
And choose the side that you'll be on
And learn the words of your new song
For the Battle will be long.....so long........

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Chronicle of The Black Sword (Moorcock)
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Now begins the tale of Elric
proud prince of ruins
who bore The Black Sword...

Here is the Chronicle of that albino lord
Who came to be called The White Wolf
Who was called The Kinslayer
Who was called Womanslayer
Who was doomed to be torn
between Chaos and Law
Who was born to be the pawn
of the Cosmic Balance
Who was at once, more his own master
than any who had lived before
And was at the same time slave
to bloodshed, cruelty, and war
Listen, listen now....
Listen to the tale of how
the White Wolf came by his Weird
Listen to how Elric earned
The Bane of The Black Sword

Elric of Melnibone
The Sailor on the Seas of Fate
Elric
Who battled to bring about the End Of Time
Elric
Who bore the sentient sword Stormbringer
And who killed the only two mortal women he ever loved
This is his sad, his terrible
Aye, and his heroic Saga

The Saga men call
The Chronicle of The Black Sword.....
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Coded Languages  (Bainbridge, Moorcock)
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Investigate the meaning of your sentence
What is it telling you ?
Where does it begin and where does it end ?
Question the nature of your orders
Question the nature of your orders
Question the nature of your orders
What do they want from you ?
A rendezvous upon the sound
The cars rev up the word goes round
Their words are weapons of their will
Their words can hurt
Their words can kill
A burning phrase can burn a town
A syllable can bring you down
Their languages are coded
Your image is eroded
Listen to the sound you heard
Learn to fight against their word
Vocabularies of death
Destruction in their breath
They use the lie
They use the myth
Seek only to confuse
And liberty abuse
The lies they tell are pretty
And blow up another city
They steal away your freedom
And your love
Their sentimental calling signs
Are calculatingly designed
To rob you of your mind and time
And still you listen to
The lulling drone of reassuring voices
Tunes to take away your choices
Make you slaves to fancy words and phrases
Until you're pushing up the daisies
They steal away your freedom
and your love



The Dark Lords
==============

I have turned Zarozinia into a giant slug, Elric
You will no longer mate with woman like her
We will have the Sword from you Elric
One way or the other, it makes no difference
Look at him scurry backwards and forwards
The poor little wretch does not know which way to turn
Ah we've really got him this time.
Zarozinia has been turned into a worm, ha, a slithering worm
Your spells are no good now
You will give us Stormbringer
Go on Elric, look in your Law books,
You will find that we are right
You will find that you have to give it to us
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Dead God's Homecoming (Moorcock)
================================

You raise your eyes to the howling sky
Raise your sword to the haunted Moon
You raise your voice in a battle cry
And you raise your shield
You raise your shield
Against unholy doom

For they shan't possess your will's control
Shall not enslave your mortal soul
And won't divert you from your goal
Though dark war rules from pole to pole
You are the Lord of Ruins
Albino Prince of Ruins
And your sins shall save the world

Beyond the ocean brews a battle
Beyond the battle blood shall fall
If Elric's kinsman ventures with him
(Bearing a twin of that which he bears)
To a place where man-forsaken
Dwells the one who should not live
There's a bargain to be entered....
Elric's wife shall be restored
Elric's wife shall be restored
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Dragon Song (Moorcock)
======================

In a time before this time
Those ancient gods of mine and thine
Proclaimed our twin fates intertwined
And named our day of destiny
Calling all to come and feast
To witness blood of man and beast
Intermingled West to East
North to South and sea to sea
Mortal shall have dragon kin
Share blood in virtue and in sin
'gainst common enemies shall win
And ever bound in twain shall be!

Now dragons wake to dragon's flight
Drahon beauty, dragon bright
Rise in vengeance, soar to fight
Dragons roar fills up the night
Firedrake's form blots out the Moon
Dragons rise from sleeping grave
When brothers sing the dragons tune
Echoing through the dragon's cave
Dragon singer, dragon cry
Dragon rider mounts the sky
Dragon brother, legends fame
Hear me call the dragon names:

Flamefang! Hornblow! Rainbow Wing!
'Tis time we heard the dragons sing
Spiketail! Sharpclaw! Snout-On-Fire!
Create our enemies' funeral pyre
Steelcrest! Blackscale! Golden Bone!
Rise to defend the Dragon Throne

{Dragon steed bears dragon kin
Towards the howling battle din
Dragon rider's cry is wild
Dragon mother, dragon child
Dragons' wings unfolded wide
Aloft now spreads the dragon tide
Dragons dive and dragons sear
Bring the death which all men fear
For Death is now the dragon's bride

Upward now the dragons spear
Higher where the air is clear
Above the clouds, close to the Sun
Dragon brothers, we are one!

Dragons kill and dragons slay
Dragons fly towards the fray
Pay the price all dragons pay
For victory brings our funeral day!}
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The Earth Ritual (Moorcock)
===========================

We bring you the ritual of the ravaged Earth
For we are all the Children of the Mother Sea
We bring the rites of the reign of fire
We are the Lords of Hunger
The Ladies of Pain
The weeping victims of our ruined brains
And we're tired
So tired of making love
It is cold on the Edge of Time

We are the oracle of the nuclear night
Heralds and explorers of eternal ice
We are the acolytes of your hidden flame
Guardians of the dead; no longer sane
We are the ghosts of that lifeless, nuclear night
And we're tired
So tired of making love
It is cold on the Edge of Time

We are the Lost
The Last
We are the half-blind
We are the Warriors at the End Of Time
Ravenous and white in perpetual freezing night
We are the Daughters of the Moon
Sons of the Ice
And we're standing on the very Edge of Time
And we're tired
So tired of making love
It is cold on the Edge of Time

It is cold and hopeless at the End of Time
You grow hard of heart and lose your sign
To your Rites of Earth, and soul, and mind
Too weak to protest at their martial crimes
To cry out for your rights, to hold the line...
It is cold on the Edge of Time
And we're tired of making love

Demand your rights to air, and earth, and fire
Demand your rights so all shall share
Or stand forever lonely on the Edge of Time
Freeze forever at the Edge of Time
For it is cold, so cold, at the Edge of Time
It is cold on the Edge of Time
And we're tired of making love
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The Final Fight   (Moorcock)
===============

Ships of Chaos upwards churning
>From the nightmare realms below
Dragons downwards, venom burning
Now attack the malformed foe

Lords of Hell, all pity spurning
Cry "Revenge" and lust for death
Their servant Elric's mind is turning
To sweet Law's promises of rest

Monstrous men and manlike monsters
Battle for the end of time
Meanwhile heavy metal songsters
Cut themselves another line...

Speed now!  Speed to war and horror
Speed to battle - Speed to die
Hasten, for there's no tomorrow
The future's merely another lie

Dragons sigh and dragons soaring
Marshall for their Final Fight
Chaos creatures in torment roaring
Seek the rule of Earth's old night.

Dragon brothers onward fly
Chaos summons all her might
Dragon Lord is coming nigh
Come to fight the Final Fight

        Come to fight the Final Fight
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The Joker of the Universe (Moorcock)
====================================

They have killed the great Sun Jester
Who danced between the stars
They have stripped him of his manhood
Signs of Venus and of Mars
The cynics left him weeping
And the jackals left him torn
But the jester reaches out blind hands
he can touch the stars no more
And he danced for us
And he laughed for us
And he gave us all he had
He was Jesus, he was Jonas
He was good and he was bad
And he took the stars in his hands
And as he scattered them he'd shout
"I'm The Joker of The Universe
 I'm what it's all about!"
Now he's dying in his dream
And the hard men drag him down
They have killed the wild-eyed jester
They have killed the Fireclown
Now his blind eyes seek the starlight
And his fingers seek controls
To take him into space again
Where he was both young and old
The dancers legs are stiffened with pain
And they've made him kneel too long
And the madness they have driven out
They've left him cold and sane
He'll never sing his songs again
He'll never dance between the stars again
He'll never laugh again
He'll never dream your songs again
He'll never sing his songs again
He'll never sing his songs again
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KINGS OF SPEED
( - Brock - Moorcock - )
Kings of speed, kings of speed, we're gonna make you, kings
of speed, kings of speed
Between you and me Mr. C, I think we have what these boys need
Step this way lads, it ain't no lie,
Try your luck and be the human fly
Kings of speed, kings of speed, we're gonna make you, kings
of speed, kings of speed
We're gonna take a tasty trip on Frank and Beasley's rocket ship
The biggest attraction, the brightest star, boys
you're going fast and far
Kings of speed, kings of speed, we're gonna make you, kings
of speed, kings of speed
We guarantee you the sweetest ride
You'll go so far you'll think you've died
Step this way lads it ain't no lie
Try your luck and reach the sky
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Note From a Cold Planet
=======================

There is ice everywhere now, from pole to pole
And we live in a kind of miserable twilight
Mining what we can of the food we left behind
Mining for Campbell's Soup and Birds-Eye peas
For Heinz baked Beans and sliced Kraft cheese

Yes all the food is frozen now
    all the food is frozen now

Last year we struck a forest two hundred feet below
It was perfectly preserved. It was as though
Some cryogenic process petrified it in time
It seemed a shame to drag it up and burn it
But we've no choice if we wish to stay alive

Yes, all the trees are frozen now
     all the trees are frozen now

There are fourteen of us left in our group today
Three of these are women: warriors from Mandalay
The others are from Africa, America, Japan
The English cannibal is, of course, a man
He claims it is the price he has to pay

Yes, all our hearts are frozen now
     all our hearts are frozen now

I know for certain there is earth below the snow
The land we lost only a few short years ago
When in our euphoric ferocity we loosed the fires
No water could extinguish. A hundred billion funeral pyres
Their fumes became our shroud. There's nowhere left to go

Yes, all our hopes are frozen now
     all our hopes are frozen now

We denied ourselves the right to walk upon the Earth
To walk upon the surface of our Earth
We denied our rites, the lore of ancient wisdom
We can no longer walk upon the surface of our Earth
Denied the facts of death and the facts of birth

Yes, all our Future's frozen now
     all our Future's frozen now
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