THE DOLLS OF NEW ALBION, A STEAMPUNK OPERA SENTENCE STARTERS PART 1
001 -- NEW ALBION 1
“ they had a fierce debate about God and chance. “
“ the game went on all day. “
“ we hear his song each afternoon as he flies by. “
“ there’s prisons made of lead. “
“ to join you have to craft a glass pearl from a young girl’s dream. “
“ a group of thieves broke in the lodge to steal the pearls. “
“ in the morning, they were found there sitting, staring unperturbed. “
“ the twilight fog, they say, an aphrodisiac contains. “
002 -- ANNABEL RAISES THE DEAD
“ please come back to me. there’s so much we could be! “
“ with voltage, i invoke! “
“ please come back from empty cracks and berths of black. “
“ i’m summoning the Ghost. “
“ be my angel. “
“ rescue me. “
“ they kicked me out of school. “
“ i’ve reached the goal! “
“ we can have a life at last! “
“ i grab at heaven’s throat! “
“ i beckon, beg, and cry and laugh. “
“ please come speak to me. “
“ i remember you from school. “
“ you didn’t know i was alive until that one night. “
“ you kissed me. “
“ i was expelled. “
“ you’ve died, but i can bring you back to life! “
“ soon, you’ll speak to me. “
003 -- ANNABEL HAS A DOLL
“ a recently deceased man found himself wound in the land of living again. “
“ he has no voice. “
“ his steel joints barely can bend. “
“ he streams radio broadcasts. “
“ he plays a country station if you give him a pat. “
“ she has a friend who was just dead and yet she brought back. “
“ all you love does not love you. “
“ i have a dolly! “
“ we like to go on walks. “
“ we like to stroll around the park all while he listens to me talk. “
“ i wouldn’t leave my house. “
“ we share a world, which is wonderful to see. “
“ it’s like a dream, where no one calls me failure. “
“ it’s like flowers in the spring. “
“ no matter how i talk to him, he never says a thing. “
“ ice cream and carriages i always thought were nice. “
“ you must be brilliant and the best. “
“ you must be better and industrious, or you are worthless. “
“ he’s mute and just plays the radio. “
“ why’d you bring me here again? “
“ we go to shows, parades, and cabarets, though people stare at me. “
“ i’ve shown that i am brilliant. “
“ i’ve conquered life and death. “
“ the only thing my father said is that one must be a success. “
“ he’s very stabling, if not a little just too distant. “
“ what you hold may wish to go. “
“ all that brings you peace of mind may not stay for a long time. “
“ can’t you speak to me? won’t you speak to me? “
004 -- ANNABEL’S LAMENT
“ the girl learns to hide. “
“ you could have been my angel and rescued me. “
“ of love, you never knew. you just construed, like well - penned plays. “
“ scenes … embraces : things you only knew in dreamt up days. “
“ friends came round to waste her time. “
“ children are not what achievers need. “
“ ghosts of dreams, of who you thought you’d one day be when you grew up. “
“ ghost of days that fade away as failure holds your hand ‘til death. “
“ all are derailed and then you failed them. “
“ liquids and labs, fractions and fact, are all that you had. “
005 -- WE BID THE 1ST GENERATION ADIEU
“ defeated now, she sadly creeps back to her lab. “
“ we’ve three more acts to get through. “
“ the future beckons and won’t wait. “
“ the next generation’s on its way. “
“ dead things and broken love stories for us await. “
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