Saints and Poets (The World We Left Behind)

by John McDaid

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This is the first cut from the re-booted hypermedia novel "Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse," coming in early 2023, thanks to the Creative Media and Digital Culture program at Washington State University Vancouver.

Many thanks to the feedback from participants in Mark Hollmann's musical theater songwriting workshop.

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EMILY KEANE
From the nowhere to the here
From the distant to the near
Through that moment when things shift
And you’re suddenly adrift
In a place you've never seen before
Where nothing matters anymore

CHORUS
The saints and poets tried in vain
They were helpless to explain
All the lost you'll never find
From the world we left behind

Haunted memories no one shares
From a different then and there
You are suddenly alone
Past and future blank unknowns
Left to wonder at it all
From here that world just seems so small

CHORUS

THE DEAD
We the dead are lost and found
EMILY KEANE
Now you walk familiar streets
THE DEAD
Try in vain to stand our ground
EMILY KEANE
Empty hands and empty seats
THE DEAD
No illusions, no escape
EMILY KEANE
Grief for all that's disappeared
THE DEAD
Taking on this different shape
EMILY KEANE
Left with only what you feared
THE DEAD
And the memories start to fade
EMILY KEANE
You hear the whistle of that train
THE DEAD
Of the world where we were made
EMILY KEANE
And wonder if there's some way back again

CHORUS: EMILY AND THE DEAD

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released November 4, 2022
Graphics by the wizards of the CMDC program at WSUV.

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John McDaid Portsmouth, Rhode Island

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

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