Lost Weekend

I (very rarely) engage in SongFight! (at http://songfight.org/). It is a lovely place. When the title for the song came up, I was originally thinking of doing it as a one-off. Then this idea came through the door. It fits with the on-going album concept.

The album concept (repeated from my bio): This FAWM, I want to write songs for an art album I'm working on. Abstractly, it's an art album about copyright... in the guise of hymn filk. The premise is a lonely space traveler thinks about what might be in store for the colony ship when they get there, but due to copyright restrictions only music made before 1926 is available on-board. So, he combines the two.

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Lost Weekend

📔 song lyrics posted on 2015-02-20 @ 05:24am

Title: Lost Weekend
Date: 2015-02-20 @ 05:24am

Lyrics

What if our ship crashes on an island and we lose our minds?
What if our ship crashes on an island and we go insane?
Would we build smoke, would smoke kill us, could we keep the smoke at bay?

What if our ship crashes and we have to kill a polar bear?
What if our ship crashes and we failed to pack our underwear?
Would we wear skin, could we skin him, could we sleep in polar bear?

What if our ship crashes and we all start seeing things not real.
What if this includes a kitchen stocked with pudding, cans and veal.
Would we eat it, would it eat us, could we eat not knowing what?

What if our ship crashes and we find something we have to push.
Could we keep going if all we could do was to push the thing?
Would we not, how could we not eventually stop the thing?

How we would long for the time when we spent a weekend dreaming
How we would long for the time when we were lost in each other.
Our lost weekend, our weekend lost, the time we were truly found.

What if our ship crashes and we find we are already dead?
What if our spirits roam the island that we all once hated?
Would we stay there, could we go home, would we never know of peace?

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(txt) Lost Weekend

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See Also: FAWM 2015
Category: Filk to Hymntunes

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