Light At The End (Pegasus demo)

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Demo for the 2021 Pegasus Awards, where I'm nominated in the Best Writer/Composer category. If you're voting, hit me up and I'm happy to provide a download code for my albums.

This song was a third-place winner in the 2021 FilKONtari-NO songwriting contest, April 10, 2021.

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When you're whistling past the graveyard
Hear bones singing in the dark
Don’t you ever start to wonder
If this whole world's jumped the shark

In the valley of the shadow
Halfway to Halloween
We’ve been sold a tale of failure
And regression to the mean

It's a dream of angel armies
Descending from the sky
They have come to end the madness
Time for everyone to die

CHORUS
No more foregone Armageddon
No half-buried Liberty
No more third-act desperation
No descent to sunless sea
That's the way we used to do it
Ain't the way it goes today
Put on your ruby slippers
Cuz the future's on the way

Well we heard that Blood's a Rover
Saw the shape of Things to Come
Felt despair on that Day After
Watching Pickens ride the bomb

Now we're walking toward the future
Learning how to do no harm
Turn our back on hollow nightmares
And await our final form

Act in the living present
Like that old dead poet said
Don't you follow alt-White Rabbits
And take the time to feed your head

CHORUS

We used to cringe at heat death
Genuflect to entropy
But now we know that time's becoming
Is emergent complexity

We ride Lanaikea
Tracing faces on the flow
Poised between the void and plenum
As above, so below

We watch the Light from the beginning
Or perhaps it is the end
But we're in a tunnel of love
On a journey to transcend

CHORUS

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released August 28, 2021

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John McDaid Portsmouth, Rhode Island

Award-winning science fiction writer, freelance journalist, folk/filk singer-songwriter.

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