Long Night of the Moon

[billroper]

And here's the song I wrote at Minicon:

Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2006

Long Night of the Moon

(Chorus)
Long night of the moon
And I’m feeling the hunger.
I’m lost in the tune
And I’m ready to go.
Can’t happen too soon
‘Cause I’m not getting much younger.
I’m just waiting for thunder
In the night of the moon.

I hear the rumble, I hear the roar.
I feel the pressure, I feel her soar.
I sing the music of the thundering jet,
Then I awaken and I can’t forget.

I see the stations move against the stars.
I see the flare of a rocket ship to Mars.
I hear the song of a race that’s outward bound.
Until the morning when I waken to the sound (of the)

(Chorus to bridge and chorus)

I see stars shining in the night.
I see people building rocket ships and everything’s all right.
And I hear a song that ended much too soon
As I’m staring at the dark side of the moon.

Inside the crescent, I see new light,
New constellations of cities taken flight,
But the cities fade away and they take away their song
And I wonder where they’ve gone to and I want to go along.

(Chorus twice)

In the night of the moon.
In the light of the moon.

Comments

[catalana.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is so not the song I thought it would be from the title. But I like it! (Wish I could hear it.)

I may do a Not Everybody Dies on it, though, and ask you if I can borrow the title myself to write the song I thought it was going to be. *grin*

[billroper]

Thanks! And you're more than welcome to borrow the title. It seems only fair. :)

If I can get things worked out, I may start posting the MP3s I discussed soon. I just need to get some spare time...

[min0taur.livejournal.com]

The Heinlein Dreamtime returns. You've evoked the moon that I remember emerging briefly from fiction in 1969-72. For the intervening decades, and for the moment, it has once again become a sort of outlandish story that I remember having been real, and hope we may emerge soon from the historical eclipse of that moon.

[billroper]

Thanks! That's definitely what I was going for.

Of course, one of my early memories was of going into a darkened room in kindergarden to watch a Mercury launch. Then we moved to Guam for two years.

When we returned, I remember standing in the classroom, plotting the path of an orbiting Gemini capsule on a huge Mercator map at the front of the room. Then we moved to Guam for two years.

We got back from Guam the second time just in time to see Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon on the black and white TV in our rented apartment in Los Angeles.

*sigh*