SONGS FOR THE END
& the Beginning

When:

Sunday, November 2 at 7:00 pm
Doors open at 6:30

Where:

Dickens Opera House
302 Main St, Longmont

 

The Program

 

The Players

 

The Lyrics

Sign up for emails:

The Program

  • Apocalypse Please / Buffy Muse / Nerf Herder
  • Crazy / Where Is My Mind? / Heart-Shaped Box Gnarls Barkley / Pixies / Nirvana
  • Cornflake Girl Tori Amos
  • Disease Lady Gaga
  • Arsonist’s Lullaby Hozier
  • Burn the Witch Radiohead
  • The Saints Dirt Poor Robins
  • Spellbound / Howl Siouxsie and the Banshees / Florence + The Machine
  • Golden HUNTR/X
  • Intermission
  • Come Little Children Hocus Pocus / Erutan
  • White Rabbit Jefferson Airplane
  • Headlock Imogen Heap
  • Baba O’Riley / Four Seasons: Spring The Who / Vivaldi
  • The Seed AURORA
  • All Along the Watchtower Jimi Hendrix / Bear McCreary
  • Mr. Blue Sky / Rite of Spring Electric Light Orchestra / Stravinsky
  • Adventure of a Lifetime Coldplay
  • Dream On Aerosmith
  • Super Special Secret Encore

^ Back to top

The Players

  • Sebastian Adams Clarinet
  • Maddie Camilli Harp
  • Annika Ekrem Clarinet
  • Michael Ferenc Keyboard
  • Sam French Drums
  • Ryan Kain Bass Clarinet
  • Jenny Lindberg Oboe, English Horn, Flute
  • Eric Pahlke Vocals
  • Kathryn Painter Vocals
  • Lynn Scribner Flute, Alto Flute, Piccolo
  • Tyler Stockton Trombone
  • Joe Swanson Viola
  • Jennifer van de Kamp Violin
  • Rebecca Ward Helterbrand Violin
  • Craig Wiley Trumpet

^ Back to top

The Lyrics

^ Back to top

Apocalypse Please x Buffy

Muse, 2003

Declare this an emergency
Come on and spread a sense of urgency
And pull us through
And pull us through

And this is the end, the end
This is the end of the world

And it's time we saw a miracle
Come on, it's time for something biblical
To pull us through
And pull us through

And this is the end, the end
This is the end of the world

[Instrumental]

Proclaim eternal victory
Come on and change the course of history
And pull us through
And pull us through

And this is the end, the end
This is the end of the world

Crazy x Where Is My Mind? x Heart-Shaped Box

Gnarls Barkley, 2006; Pixies, 1988; Nirvana, 1993

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even you emotions have an echo in so much space
And when you're out there without a care, yeah
I was out of touch, but it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much

But with your feet in the air, and your head on the ground
Try this trick, and spin it, yeah
Your head'll collapse if there's nothing in it
Then you'll ask yourself

Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly

And I hope that you are having the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice

Come on now, who do you, who do you
Who do you, who do you think you are?
Hahaha, bless your soul
You really think you're in control?

Well, I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
(She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak)
I think you're crazy, just like me
(I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks)

Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice
Hey! Wait! I've got a new complaint
Forever in debt to your priceless advice

I was swimmin' in the Caribbean
Animals were hidin' behind a rock
Except the little fish, when they told me east was west
Tryin' to talk to me, coy koi

Where is my mind?
Where is my mind, where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind, where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind, where is my mind?
Where is my mind?
Where is my mind, where is my mind?

Way out in the water, see it swimin'
See it swimin'
See it swimin'

Cornflake Girl

Tori Amos, 1994

Never was a cornflake girl
Thought it was a good solution
Hanging with the raisin girls
She's gone to the other side
Giving us the yo heave ho
Things are getting kind of gross
And I go at sleepy time
This is not really
This, this, this is not really happening

You bet your life it is
You bet your life it is
Honey, you bet your life
It's a peel out the watchword
Just peel out the watchword

She knows what's going on
Seems we got a cheaper feel now
All the sweeteaze are gone
Gone to the other side
With my encyclopedia
They must have paid her a nice price
She's putting on her string bean love
This is not really
This, this, this is not really happening

You bet your life it is
You bet your life it is
Honey, you bet your life
It's a peel out the watchword
Just peel out the watchword

Never was a cornflake girl
Thought that was a good solution

[Instrumental]

Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl?
Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl?
Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl?
Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, where'd you put the keys, girl?

And the man with the golden gun
Thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much, yeah
And the man with the golden gun
Thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much, yeah
And the man with the golden gun
Thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much, yeah
And the man with the golden gun
Thinks he knows so much, thinks he knows so much, yeah

[Instrumental]

Rabbit, where'd you put the keys, girl?
Rabbit, where'd you put that, put that thing?
Like your heart, and you swear it's so hard, well,
I don't know what buckles, oh, but, anymore
Like your heart, and you swear it's so hard, well,
Where'd you put the keys, girl?

Disease

Lady Gaga, 2024

There are no more tears to cry
I heard you beggin' for life
Runnin' out of medicine
You're worse than you've ever been

Ah-ah, screamin' for me baby
Ah-ah, like you're gonna die
Ah-ah, poison on the inside
I could be your antidote tonight

Ah-ah, screamin' for me baby
Ah-ah, like you're gonna die
Ah-ah, poison on the inside
I could be your antidote tonight

I could play the doctor
I can cure your disease
If you were a sinner
I could make you believe
Lay you down like one, two, three
Eyes roll back in ecstasy
I can smell your sickness, I can cure ya
Cure your disease

You're so tortured when you sleep
Plagued with all your memories
You reach out and no one's there
Like a god without a prayer

Ah-ah, screamin' for me baby
Ah-ah, like you're gonna die
Ah-ah, poison on the inside
I could be your antidote tonight

Ah-ah, screamin' for me baby
Ah-ah, like you're gonna die
Ah-ah, poison on the inside
I could be your antidote tonight

I could play the doctor
I can cure your disease
If you were a sinner
I could make you believe
Lay you down like one, two, three
Eyes roll back in ecstasy
I can smell your sickness, I can cure ya
Cure your disease

Cure your disease
I can smell your sickness, I can cure ya

Bring me your desire
I can cure your disease
If you were a sinner, I could make you believe
Lay you down like one, two, three
Eyes roll back in ecstasy
I know all your secrets
I can cure ya, ah
Cure your disease

Cure your disease!
Cure ya!

I can smell your sickness
I can cure ya
I can cure your disease
Cure your disease
Cure your disease
Whoo-whoo

Arsonist's Lullaby

Hozier, 2014

When I was a child, I heard voices
Some would sing and some would scream
You soon find you have few choices
I learned the voices died with me

When I was a child, I'd sit for hours
Staring into open flame
Something in it had a power
Could barely tear my eyes away

All you have is your fire
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons
But always keep 'em on a leash

When I was 16, my senses fooled me
Thought gasoline was on my clothes
I knew that something would always rule me
I knew the scent was mine alone

All you have is your fire
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons
But always keep 'em on a leash

When I was a man I thought it ended
When I knew love's perfect ache
But my peace has always depended
On all the ashes in my wake

All you have is your fire
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons
But always keep 'em on a leash

Burn the Witch

Radiohead, 2016

Stay in the shadows
Cheer at the gallows
This is a round-up

This is a low-flying panic attack
Sing the song on the jukebox that goes

Burn the witch
Burn the witch
We know where you live


Red crosses on wooden doors
And if you float, you burn
Loose talk around tables
Abandon all reason

Avoid all eye contact
Do not react
Shoot the messengers

This is a low-flying panic attack
Sing the song of sixpence that goes

Burn the witch
Burn the witch
We know where you live

The Saints

Dirt Poor Robins, 2020

Each day you wake up with an aching
For something to set you apart
Strip the scales from your heart
(It never comes, it never comes)
A hostage tied up by its nature
That can't help unsheathing its claws
A beast with desires of a god
(You won't become, you won't become)

From an unlikely place redemption has come
From an once-abstract space of zeroes and ones
In full resolution, your absolution

Oh when, oh when the saints go marching in
I want to be in that number
When their, oh when their light begins to shine
We will awake from this slumber

[Instrumental]

They were born with the strength of a mountain
With the modest intent of a dove
An end to the shedding of blood
(It won't be long, it won't be long)
We sculpted their minds to perfection
The zenith design of our age
The saint is also a sage
(They're never wrong, They're never wrong)

From the work of our hands salvation is here
A new constellation through coding appears
A sign, a solution, a revolution


Oh when, oh when the saints go marching in
I want to be in that number
When their, oh when their light begins to shine
We will awake from this slumber

No more guessing and questioning
No more endlessly wrestling
No more doubt
You're not missing out
No more meaningless wandering
No more undeserved suffering
You're enough
You will measure up

When the saints go marching in
I want to be in that number
When their light begins to shine
We will awake from this slumber

Spellbound x Howl

Siouxsie and the Banshees, 1981; Florence + The Machine, 2009

From the cradle bars comes a beckoning voice
It sends you spinning, you have no choice

You hear laughter cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning, you have no choice
You hear laughter cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning, you have no choice

Following the footsteps of a rag doll dance
We are entraced, spellbound
Following the footsteps of a rag doll dance
We are entraced, spellbound
Spellbound, spellbound, oh
Spellbound, spellbound, spellbound, spellbound

If you could only see the beast you made of me
I held it in, but now it seems you set it running free
Screaming in the dark, I howl when we're apart
Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart

My fingers claw your skin, try to tempt my way in
You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to howl
My fingers claw your skin, try to tempt my way in
You are the moon that breaks the night for which I have to

Howl, howl
Howl, howl

Now there's no holding back, I'm making my attack
My blood is singing with your voice, I want to pour it out
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound
I hunt for you with bloody teeth across the hallowed ground

Like some child possessed, the beast howls in my veins
I hunt to find you, tear out all your tenderness

And howl, howl
Howl, howl

Be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers
And starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters

(Hunter, hunter, hunter hunter)
(Hunter, hunter, hunter hunter)

The fabric of your flesh, pure as a wedding dress
Until I wrap myself inside your arms I cannot rest
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound
I hunt for you with bloody teeth across the hallowed

Ground
And howl

When you think your toys have gone berserk
It's an illusion you cannot shirk
You hear laughter cracking through the walls
It sends you spinning, you have no choice

A man who's pure of heart and says his prayers by nights
May still become a wolf when the autumn moon is bright

If you could only see the beast you made of me
I held it in but now it seems you set it running free
Screaming in the dark, I howl when we're apart
Drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart
The saints can't help me now, the ropes have been unbound
(Spellbound hunter)
I hunt for you with bloody teeth across the hallowed
(Spellbound hunter)

Golden

HUNTER/X, 2025

I was a ghost, I was alone
어두워진 앞길 속에 (hah)
Given the throne, I didn't know how to believe
I was the queen that I'm meant to be
I lived two lives, tried to play both sides
But I couldn't find my own place
Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid 끝없이 on stage

I'm done hidin', now I'm shinin' like I'm born to be
We dreamin' hard, we came so far, now I believe

We're goin' up, up, up, it's our moment
You know together we're glowing
Gonna be, gonna be golden
Oh, up, up, up with our voices
영원히 깨질 수 없는
Gonna be, gonna be golden

Oh, I'm done hidin', now I'm shinin' like I'm born to be
Oh, our time, no fears, no lies
That's who we're born to be

Waited so long to break these walls down
To wake up and feel like me
Put these patterns all in the past now
And finally live like the girl they all see

No more hiding, I'll be shining like I'm born to be
'Cause we are hunters, voices strong, and I know I believe

We're goin' up, up, up, it's our moment
You know together we're glowing
Gonna be, gonna be golden
Oh, up, up, up, with our voices
영원히 깨질 수 없는
Gonna be, gonna be golden

Oh, I'm done hidin', now I'm shining like I'm born to be
Oh, our time, no fears, no lies
That's who we're born to be

You know we're gonna be, gonna be golden
We're gonna be, gonna be
Born to be, born to be glowin'
밝게 빛나는 우린
You know that it's our time, no fears, no lies
That's who we're born to be

INTERMISSION

Come Little Children

Hocus Pocus, 1993

Come little children
I'll take thee away
Into a land of enchantment
Come little children
The time's come to play
Here in my garden of shadows

Follow sweet children
I'll show thee the way
Through all the pain and the sorrows
Weep not poor children
For life is this way
Murdering beauty and passions

Hush now dear children, it must be this way
Too weary of life and deceptions
Rest now my children
For soon we'll away
Into the calm and the quiet

[Instrumental]

Come little children
I'll take thee away
Into a land of enchantment
Come little children
The time's come to play
Here in my garden of shadows

White Rabbit

Jefferson Airplane, 1967

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall
Tell 'em a hookah-smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call
Poor Alice
When she was just small

[Instrumental]

When the men on your chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is movin' low
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know

When the logic and proportion
Have fallen so I'll be dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head"
Remember what the dormouse said
"Feed your head
Feed your head"

"Feed your head
Feed your head"

Headlock

Imogen Heap, 2005

Distant flickerings, greener scenery
This weather's bringing it all back again
Great adventures, faces in condensation
I'm going outside to take it all in

You say too late to start
Got your heart in a headlock
I don't believe any of it
You say too late to start
With your heart in a headlock
You know you're better than this

Wear a different pair, do something out of step
Throw a stranger an unexpected smile
With big intention, still posted at your station
Always on about the day it should have flied

You say too late to start
Got your heart in a headlock
I don't believe any of it
You say too late to start
With your heart in a headlock
You know you're better than this

Afraid to start
Got your heart in a headlock
I don't believe any of it
You say too late to start
With your heart in a headlock
You know you're better than this

You've been walking, you've been hiding
And you look half dead half the time
Monitoring you, like machines do
You've still got it, I'm just keeping an eye
You've been walking, you've been hiding
And you look half dead half the time
Monitoring you, like machines do
You've still got it, I'm just keeping an eye

[Instrumental]

You know you're better than this
Can't make a start
Got your heart in a headlock
No, I don't believe any of it
You say too late to start
With your heart in a headlock
You know you're better than this

Afraid to start
Got your heart in a headlock
I don't believe any of it
You say too late to start
With your heart in a headlock
You know you're better than this

Baba O'Riley

The Who, 1971

Out here in the fields
I fight for my meals
I get my back into my living
I don't need to fight
To prove I'm right
No I don't need to be forgiven

Don't cry
Don't raise your eye
It's only teenage wasteland

Sally take my hand
We'll travel south cross land
Put out the fire
And don't look past my shoulder
The exodus is here
The happy ones are near
Let's get together, before we get much older

Teenage wasteland
It's only teenage wasteland
Teenage wasteland
Oh yeah, teenage wasteland
They're all wasted!

The Seed

AURORA, 2019

Just like the seed
I don't know where to go
Through dirt and shadow, I grow
I'm reaching light through the struggle
Just like the seed
I'm chasing the wonder
I unravel myself
All in slow motion

You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money, oh no

You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money, oh no
Oh no

Suffocate me
So my tears can be rain
I will water the ground where I stand
So the flowers can grow back again
'Cause just like the seed
Everything wants to live
We are burning our fingers
But we learn and forgive

You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money, oh no

You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money, oh no
Oh no

[Instrumental]

Feed me sunlight, feed me air
Feed me truth and feed me prayer
Feed me sunlight, feed me air
Feed me truth and feed me prayer

You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money, oh no

You cannot eat money, oh no
You cannot eat money, oh no
When the last tree has fallen
And the rivers are poisoned
You cannot eat money, oh no
Oh no

All Along the Watchtower

Bob Dylan, 1967

"There must be some way out of here"
Said the joker to the thief
"There's too much confusion
I can't get no relief
Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth"

"No reason to get excited"
The thief, he kindly spoke
"There are many here among us
Who feel that life is but a joke
But you and I, we've been through that
And this is not our fate
So let us not talk falsely now
The hour is getting late"

[Instrumental]

All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
Barefoot servants too
Outside, in the distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
The wind began to howl

Mr. Blue Sky

Electric Light Orchestra, 1977

Sun is shinin' in the sky
There ain't a cloud in sight
It's stopped rainin', everybody's in the play
And don't you know
It's a beautiful new day? Hey

Runnin' down the avenue
See how the sun shines brightly in the city
On the streets where once was pity
Mr. Blue Sky is living here today, hey

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
Where did we go wrong?

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
Where did we go wrong?

[Instrumental]

Hey you with the pretty face
Welcome to the human race
A celebration, Mr. Blue Sky's up there waitin'
And today is the day we've waited for

Oh, Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
Where did we go wrong?

Hey there, Mr. Blue
We're so pleased to be with you
Look around, see what you do
Everybody smiles at you

Hey there, Mr. Blue
We're so pleased to be with you
Look around, see what you do
Everybody smiles at you

[Instrumental]

Mr. Blue, you did it right
But soon comes Mr. Night creepin' over
Now his hand is on your shoulder
Never mind, I'll remember you this
I'll remember you this way

Mr. Blue Sky, please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
Where did we go wrong?

Hey there Mr. Blue
We're so pleased to be with you
Look around see what you do
Everybody smiles at you

Adventure of a Lifetime

Coldplay, 2015

"Turn your magic on," to me she'd say
"Everything you want's a dream away
We are legends, every day"
That's what she told him

"Turn your magic on," to me she'd say
"Everything you want's a dream away
Under this pressure, under this weight
We are diamonds"

And I feel my heart beating
I feel my heart underneath my skin
And I feel my heart beating
Oh, you make me feel
Like I'm alive again
Alive again
Oh, you make me feel
Like I'm alive again

Said "I can't go on, not in this way"
I'm a dream that died by light of day
Gonna hold up half the sky and say
"Oh, we are omen"

And I feel my heart beating
I feel my heart underneath my skin
And I feel my heart beating
'Cause you make me feel
Like I'm alive again
Alive again
Oh, you make me feel
Like I'm alive again
Alive again
Oh, you make me feel
Like I'm alive again

"Turn your magic on," to me she'd say
"Everything you want's a dream away
Under this pressure, under this weight
We are diamonds taking shape
We are diamonds taking shape"

If we've only got this life
Then this adventure's more then I
And if we've only got this life
You'll get me through, alive
And if we've only got this life
Then this adventure's more then I
Wanna share with you
With you, with you

Dream On

Aerosmith, 1973

Every time that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face gettin' clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way?
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay, yeah

I know nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life's in books' written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

[Instrumental]

Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream until them dreams come true
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream until your dreams come true
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, dream on
Dream on, ah

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away
Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tear
Sing it with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

ENCORE

Phantom of the Opera

Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1987

In sleep he sang to me
In dreams he came
That voice which calls to me
And speaks my name

And do I dream again?
For now I find
The Phantom of the Opera
Is there inside my mind

Sing once again with me
Our strange duet
My power over you
Grows stronger yet

And though you turn from me
To glance behind
The Phantom of the Opera
Is there inside your mind

Those who have seen your face
Draw back in fear
I am the mask you wear
It's me they hear

Your spirit and my voice (my spirit and your voice)
In one combined
The Phantom of the Opera
Is there inside my mind (your mind)

He's there, the Phantom of the Opera
He's there, the Phantom of the Opera

Sing, my angel of music
Sing, my angel
Sing for me
Sing
Sing, my angel
Sing for me!

^ Back to top