#pulp lyrics

I'll be waiting until the day after The Traveler's Vow is publicly available for streaming before posting the lyrics here, and be warned the songs will be posted in reverse order for layout and organization sake, which means the end of the episode will therefore be posted before the beginning! I'll tag everything as spoilers and keep it as such until a week after it's all posted, so filter spoilers tags for the time being!

Tags to be used: (Pulp Musicals Spoilers, Pulp 5 Spoilers, The Traveler's Vow Spoilers, The Travelers Vow Spoilers)

ITZAL ABANDONED US ALL

He let the past consume him til there was NOTHINGLEFTBUTMA-

Because I do...

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DAKKAR I’ve stood with moai on Easter Island Braved the dark Sargasso Sea Fought with rebels on the Bay of Bengal Still, it’s not enough for me

Yes, it seems the apple’s Fallen far from its tree If that makes me nobody Then nobody is someone that I’d like to be

CYRUS Permission to come aboard, old friend?

DAKKAR Cyrus! Do you want your ship back yet?

CYRUS Mary Katharine would kill me. She did come up with a name, though. Here, look at this.

(papers shuffle)

DAKKAR The Nautilus? Your wife wants to name the world’s first spaceship after a mollusk?

CYRUS It stays true to our sea-faring roots!

DAKKAR You’ve been spending too much time on land. It’s changed you!

CYRUS (laughs) Says the man with an alias.

DAKKAR We’ve spanned the shores of Honshu

CYRUS Worked with fishermen in Brazil

DAKKAR I drank half my weight at carnival

CYRUS (laughs) I don’t know how we weren’t killed

DAKKAR Finding space to grow

DAKKAR, CYRUS As we sail the vortices

DAKKAR If that makes me nobody Then nobody is someone that I’d like to be

CYRUS (calling out) Forward, helmsman! Forward into tomorrow!

DAKKAR Tides rise and fall Like poetry in motion The water cleans my senses Each moment is an ocean

And I’m moving within the moving element Within the changes, changing Living free when the world around me Keeps rearranging

Voyagers, one and all This Searcher’s standing tall I am mobilis in mobili

CYRUS, CHORUS Mobilis in mobili

DAKKAR And if that makes me nobody

CYRUS, CHORUS Mobilis in mobili

DAKKAR Then nobody

CYRUS, CHORUS Nobody

DAKKAR, CYRUS, CHORUS Is who I’ll be

CYRUS Several of the Nautilus’s systems are theoretical… development would accelerate if we had materials from home.

DAKKAR ‘Home.’ (beat) I haven’t been to the Blazing World since Margaret’s wedding.

CYRUS Your sister wishes to visit, but she’s busier than ever.

DAKKAR (scoffs) With my father’s duties, I’m sure.

CYRUS He’s become more reclusive. The people are worried. I’m worried.

NARRATOR, CHORUS The very next day

NARRATOR The Bonaventure passed through the Gates Dakkar had come home

CHORUS Dakkar had come home

NARRATOR Cyrus and Mary Katharine Stood beside him, reassuring

NARRATOR, CHORUS He never had to walk alone

NARRATOR He couldn’t give in to sentiment He knew what had to come first

NARRATOR, CHORUS He made his way to Starhold

NARRATOR To Itzal

(a heavy door opens, then echoing footsteps)

DAKKAR Father?

NARRATOR There was mound after mound Of burnt out firestone Stacked high like coal The king’s chambers were like a tomb Musty and dark Haunted, resigned Dakkar felt something wither In the most fortified place of his soul

(approaching footsteps)

ITZAL Is this not what you expected to find

DAKKAR Father…

What’s become of you

ITZAL (scoffs) Ten years,

And that’s the best that you can do

DAKKAR What’s lost can be regained

ITZAL I heard you changed your name

Are you a coward Or just too weak I don’t need help And I won’t give you the redemption that you seek

You are too late Just like before Captain Nemo You’re not welcome anymore

DAKKAR I’ve followed the wind on every ocean Made camp in every nation I could find But don’t mistake my wandering for weakness The Blazing World never left my mind

Prince Dakkar or Nemo Father, it’s still me If that makes me nobody Then nobody is someone that I’ll always be

Let us help.

ITZAL Leave now.

DAKKAR It’s not too late-

ITZAL You ask what’s become of me? You did. You did this to me. And no matter how far you travel, you will never - never - escape that.

DAKKAR The master of perception Can’t sense my despair The master of illusion Can’t pretend to care

(sadly) Goodbye, Itzal.

NARRATOR Back on the ship, Cyrus and Mary Could tell by the look on his face

DAKKAR We’re leaving.

MARY KATHARINE I’m sorry.

DAKKAR Me too.

Set a course back to the Gates

(teleportation)

AHLAAM Did any of you see Taavi today?

MARY KATHARINE Ahlaam- No, he was never here.

DAKKAR I didn’t see him at the palace either - what’s going on?

AHLAAM He was acting strange last night, like something scared him. When I woke up, he was gone.

CYRUS Sia and Margaret-

AHLAAM They’re having another look at the Institute. (a bag shuffles) Taavi left these for me to find.

DAKKAR (suspicious) Huh.

MARY KATHARINE Why would he do that?