Gamehendge  -----

1. Song: Prologue-- Divided Sky
2. Narration:
3. Narration:
4. Narration:
5. Song: Lizards
6. Narration:
7. Song: Tela
8. Narration:
9. Song: Wilson
10. Narration:
11. Song: AC/DC Bag
12. Narration:
13. Narration:
14. Song: Col. Forbin's Ascent
15. Song: Famous Mockingbird
16. Narration:
17. Song: Sloth
18. Narration:
19. Song: Possum
20. Song: Epilogue-- Llama
21. Song: Extra Material-- McGrupp
22. Song: Extra Material-- Punch You In The Eye


-----

1. SONG:

PROLOGUE-- DIVIDED SKY

Ahhh!
Divided sky, the wind blows high

[The divided sky chant is part of an ancient ritual dating back to
the pre-Wilson years of purity in Gamehendge.  After listening to
the sacred sounds for a sloping lawn, three chosen subjects eat a
special root collected at the base of the enormous mountain that
rises in the center of the forest.  The root is believed to contain
the spirit of Icculus, who lives at the top of the mountain.  After
eating the root, they venture into a vast field at sundown.  The
field is deep green, and stretches as far as the eye can see in all
directions.  In the center of the field stands an enormous black
rhombus.  They climb the rhombus and begin to sing, paying
homage to the gods of the night sky.]

-----

2. NARRATION:

Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson

Once upon a time there was a mountain that rose out of a vast green
forest. And in the forest there were birds and lakes and rocks and trees
and rivers.  The forest was also inhabited by a small group of people
called the lizards.  The lizards were a simple people and they had lived
in the forest undisturbed for thousands of years in utter peace and
tranquillity. 

Once a year when spring came, and the first blossoms began to show, the
lizards would gather at the base of the mountain, to give thanks for all
that they had.  They thanked the birds and they thanked the lakes and they
thanked the rocks and the trees and the rivers; but most importantly, they
thanked Icculus. 

Icculus lived at the top of the mountain, or at least everyone thought so,
for no one had actually ever seen him.  But they knew he existed, because
they had the Helping Friendly Book.  Icculus had given the Helping
Friendly Book to the Lizards thousands of years earlier as a gift.  It
contained all of the knowledge inherent in the universe, and had enabled
the Lizards to exist in harmony with nature for years. 

-----

3. NARRATION:

And so they lived; until one day a traveler arrived in Gamehendge.  His
name was Wilson and he quickly became intrigued by the Lizards way of
life.  He asked if he could stay on and live in the forest; and the
Lizards, who had never seen an outsider, were happy to oblige. 

Wilson lived with the Lizards for a few years, studying the ways of the
Helping Friendly Book, and all was well. Until one morning when they awoke
and the book was gone.  Wilson explained that he had hidden the book,
knowing that the Lizards had become dependent on it for survival. 

He declared himself king and enslaved the innocent people of Gamehendge. 
He cut down the trees and built a city, which he called Prussia.  And in
the center of the city he built a castle, and locked in the highest tower
of the castle lay the Helping Friendly Book out of the reach of the
Lizards forever. 

-----

4. NARRATION:

But our story begins at a different time, not in Gamehendge, but on a
suburban street in Long Island, and our hero is no king sitting in a
castle, he is a retired colonel shaving in his bathroom. 

Colonel Forbin looked square in the mirror and dragged the blade across
his cold creamed skin.  He saw the tired little folds of flesh that lay in
a heap beneath his eyes.  Fifty-two years of obedient self-restraint, of
hiding his tension behind a serene veil of composure.  For fifty-two years
he had piled it all on the back burner, and for fifty-two years it had
boiled, frothing over in a turbulent storm inside of him.  It had escaped
through his eyes, reacting with the cigarette smoke and the fluorescent
lights and slowly accumulating into a sagging mass. 

He ran his dripping palm across the stubble on the nape of his neck and
thought again about the door.  He had discovered the door some months back
on one of his ritualistic morning walks with his dog McGrupp.  It had
started out as a typical stroll with McGrupp bounding joyously ahead of
the preoccupied colonel.  As they reached the apex of the hill, he saw it
and he knew it had always been there, and felt foolish for overlooking the
door for so long. 

At first, he tried to ignore it, but he soon found that it was impossible,
and slowly his newly acquired knowledge transformed his dreary life into a
prison from which there was only one escape.  And on this morning, Colonel
Forbin stepped through the door. 

-----

5. SONG:

LIZARDS

Passing through the corridor I came upon an aging knight
Who leaned against the wall in gnarly armor
He was on his way to see the king
Wilson   Wilson    Wilson
He led me through the streets of Prussia talking
As he tried to crush a bug that scurried underneath his bootheel
He said there was a place where we should go
So he lead me through the forest to the edge of a lagoon by which
We wandered 'til we reached a bubbly spring
The knight grew very quiet as we stood there
Then he lifted up his visor and he turned to me and he began to sing

chorus:

He said I come from the land of darkness
I said I come from the land of doom
He said I come from the land of Gamehendge
From the land of the big baboon
But I'm never never going back there
And I couldn't if I tried
'Cause I come from the land of Lizards
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died
And the Lizards they have died

He told me that the Lizards were a race of people practically extinct
From doing things smart people don't do
He said that he was once a Lizard too
His name was Rutherford the Brave and he was on a quest to save
His people from the fate that lay before them.
Their clumsy end was perilously near
The Lizards would be saved, he said, if they could be enlightened
By the writings of the Helping Friendly Book
In all of Prussia only one existed
And Wilson had declared that any person who possessed it was a crook

[chorus]

The Helping Friendly Book, it seemed, possessed the ancient secrets
Of eternal joy and never-ending splendor
The trick was to surrender to the flow
We walked along beneath the moon
He lead us through the bush 'till soon
We saw before our eyes a raging river
He said that we could swim it if we tried
And saying this the knight dove in forgetting that his suit of arms
Would surely weigh him down and so he sunk
And as his body disappeared before me
I bowed my head in silence and remembered all thoughts that he had thunk

[chorus]

-----

6. NARRATION:

But Rutherford and Forbin weren't alone. 

And suddenly an unexpected movement caught his eye.  On the far side of
the river he saw a shaggy creature standing in the weeds; who stared
across at Forbin with an unrelenting gaze.  A gigantic mass of muscles and
claws.  The hideous beast reared back and hurled himself in the water and
swam toward the region where Rutherford lay.  And in a flash, the beast
was gone, underneath the surface to the frosty depths below while Forbin,
bewildered, waited alone. 

The seconds dragged by in what seemed like hours till finally the colonel
felt it all had been a dream.  Defeated, he bowed his head then turned to
go.  Suddenly with a roar, the creature emerged before him and held the
brave knight's body to the sky.  And the creature laid the knight upon the
shore.  And the colonel fell beside his friend in prayer that he'd survive.
And Rutherford, brave Rutherford was alive.

Forbin and the unit monster were crouched over the soggy knight carefully
removing his bulky helmet when the colonel heard a sound behind him.  He
turned around and came face to face with an enormous shaggy horse-like
creature covered from head to tail with alternating blotches of brown and
white. 

It was a two-toned multi-beast, and atop the multi-beast sat the most
beautiful woman the colonel had ever seen.  After fifty-two years of
undaunted bachelorhood, the colonel felt a feeling rush over him as he had
never felt before. 

-----

7. SONG:

TELA

The sky is burning in this lonely man
And I kneel by the river and I feel the sand and the wind
The wind from beyond the mountain
The wind from beyond the mountain
And she comes to me in this lonely land
And looks down from the multi-beast on which she rides like the wind
The wind from beyond the mountain
The wind from beyond the mountain
 
Tela was born in a vulgar crooked hut
In the shadow of Wilson's castle
Venomous scorn from a life of bitter toil
In the shadow of Wilson's castle
Glory esteem fueled by her hatred it grew
Swelling to the point where it would
Burst at the seems there was nothing she could do

Tela Tela jewel of Wilson's foul domain
Tela Tela jewel of Wilson's foul domain
A lullaby the breezes whisper

And I look into her eyes and my frozen heart begins to thaw
And burns, 'til layer after layer melts away into a pool
A sky blue mirror of her eyes

And my soul is made of marble but in her gaze I crumble into dust
And drift away on the wind
The wind from beyond the mountain
The wind from beyond the mountain

Tela grew strong from her struggle to endure
In the shadow of Wilson's castle
Time touched her wounds and shelter proved the cure
In the shadow of Wilson's castle
Each passing day seemed to feed the brazen serpent locked inside
And liberate the spirit she'd concealed for so long
There was no place left to hide

Tela Tela jewel of Wilson's foul domain
Tela Tela jewel of Wilson's foul domain
A lullaby the breezes whisper

-----

8. NARRATION:

Tela reached out her hand and helped Forbin on to the back of the multi-
beast, and together they rode off into the forest.

As they rode, Tela explained to him about Wilson and the Helping Friendly
Book.  She told the colonel that she was part of a revolution to overthrow
the evil king.  The leader of the revolution was a Lizard named Errand
Wolfe who was out to avenge the death of his son Roger.  Roger, she said,
had been executed by Wilson at the age of fourteen on suspicion of treason.
He had been abducted from his home and hung in the public square.

The two rode on in silence, deeper and deeper into the heart of the forest
until they came to the outskirts of a small community.  Tela explained to
Forbin that they had reached the base of the revolutionaries.  The colonel
looked up and there in the center of the clearing stood Errand Wolfe.  He
was a small man but his presence was overpowering.  He seemed to emit a
kind of violent energy that sent chills down the colonel's spine.  And as
the multi-beast moved towards him, he raised his fist in anger, and his
voice filled the forest.

-----

9. SONG:

WILSON

Oh out near Stonehenge, I lived alone
Oh out near Gamehendge, I chafed a bone
Wilson, King of Prussia, I lay this hate on you
Wilson, Duke of Lizards
I beg it all trune for you

Talk my duke a mountain, Helping Friendly Book
Inasfar as fiefdom, I think you bad crook
Wilson, King of Prussia, I lay this hate on you
Wilson, Duke of Lizards
I beg it all trune for you

I talked to my son Roger, Rutherford the same
When we had that meeting, over down near Game(henge)
Wilson, King of Prussia, I lay this hate on you
Wilson, Duke of Lizards
I beg it all trune for you

You got me back thinkin' that you're the worst one
I must inquire, Wilson
Can you still have fun?
Wilson
Can you still have fun?
Wilson
Can you still have fun?
Wilson

-----

10. NARRATION:

Meanwhile, in the main square in Prussia, the state of the revolution was
taking another turn for the worst.  A crowd of townspeople had gathered to
witness the hanging of Wilson's accountant, Mr.  Palmer.  It seemed that
Palmer had been a revolutionary himself and had been extorting Wilson's
money to fund the revolution.  Palmer stood on the scaffold with Wilson and
the AC/DC Bag, an electrified robot-hangman with a black bag over his head.
Wilson seemed pleased as he began to speak.

-----

11. SONG:

AC/DC BAG

Mr. Palmer is concerned with the thousand dollar question
Just like Roger he's a crazy little kid
I've got the time if you've got the inclination
So cheer up Palmer, you'll soon be dead

The noose is hanging, at least you won't die wondering
Sit up and take notice; Tell it like it is
If I were near you I wouldn't be far from you
I've got a feeling you know what you did

chorus:

AC/DC Bag
AC/DC Bag
AC/DC Bag
DC Bag
(2x)

Time to put your money where your mouth is
Put 'em in a field and let 'em fight it out
I'm running so fast my feet don't touch the ground
I'm a stranger here I'm going down

Let's get down to the nitty gritty
Let's get this show on the road
I'll show you mine if you show me yours
I'm breathing hard - open the door

[chorus]

Brain dead, and made of money
No future at all
Pull down the blinds and run for cover
No future at all

Who would've thought it, that's where I am
No future at all
Don't sweat it, that's where I am
Whoa, carry me down, down, down, down

-----

12. NARRATION:

By that night, news of Palmer's death had traveled back to the camp.
Spirits were low and Colonel Forbin felt devastated.  Even though he had
only been in Gamehendge for one day, he had already developed a deep
hatred for Wilson.  He wanted desperately to help the revolutionaries, but
without Palmer, it seemed hopeless.  He wandered slowly through the camp
and passed Errand Wolfe, sitting by the fire with Rutherford, who had
returned that afternoon.  He walked on and soon found himself outside of
Tela's hut. Forbin knocked and walked in.  Tela sat behind a makeshift
desk in the center of a room that was littered with small cages containing
spotted stripers, a tiny three-legged breed of animal.  The unit monster
sat in the corner.  The colonel took a step toward Tela and spoke. 

"I needed to come here tonight" he said, "to tell you that I've fallen in
love with you." He looked to her eyes for approval but her face remained
frozen in an expressionless stare.  An awkward blanket of silence fell
over the room and hung for a long moment before being shattered by the
sound of the door swinging violently open.  It was Rutherford the Brave. 
The ironclad knight rushed across the room and gripped the throats of Tela
and the unit monster in each of his mighty hands.  They struggled to break
free but even the unit monster was no match for Rutherford's power and
soon it was over. 

-----

13. NARRATION:

The bodies fell to the floor in a lifeless heap.  Colonel Forbin stepped
forward from where he stood in the corner; unable to contain his confusion
and rage and screamed "WHY?" His question was answered by Errand Wolfe who
had quietly slipped through the doorway during the confusion.  "She was a
spy," he said, and explained to Forbin that she had been sending
information to Wilson using the spotted stripers as carriers.  Roger's
death had aroused his suspicion, and Palmer's had confirmed it. 

The colonel stood in silence in a world that had turned up-side-down so
many times that he no longer knew which way was up.  It had all seemed so
simple when he first arrived.  Good versus evil, and of course he had
sided with good as he had done all his life.  And now, he stood and stared
into the eyes of Errand Wolfe and he saw evil.  The entire picture began
to seem like an enormous puzzle with one piece missing, and the colonel
knew what that piece was.  "Within twenty-four hours," he said to Errand
Wolfe, "You will have the Helping Friendly Book." And even as the words
were leaving his lips, he found himself running out the door and into the
forest, not towards Prussia, but toward the great mountain looming in the
distance. 

-----

14. SONG:

COLONEL FORBIN'S ASCENT

Colonel Forbin stared up at the mountain
And wiped away the beads of sweat
That glistened on his brow
His tired feet were buried in the quagmire
And his bloodshot eyes saw all that lay between him
And fulfillment of his vow

And he felt his fingers wrap around a knotted root
And pulled his body upwards
To a sea green mossy boulder
And he dragged his weary carcass up the mountain

And he climbed so slowly
He climbed so slowly
Ahead
Ahead

Suddenly he heard the crack of thunder
And the rocks began to crumble overhead
And tumble down the mountain to the
Dismal swamp that lay beneath the jagged cliffs
through which his path had led
And the earth began to quake beneath his feet
And the mighty mountain changed before his eyes
And he stood amidst a sea of dust and rocks and stones
Cascading down the mountain
And a thousand birds were headed for the sky.  Oh...

The sacred creed will be yours
And if you wait until tomorrow
The sacred creed will be yours
To devour
Yours
To seize
And to obey
Obey

When the dust had cleared, the colonel lifted up his head
And was driven to his knees by a blazing beam of light
And he saw the silhouette that stood before him
And he bowed in reverence
Trembling in the shadow of the mighty legend's form
Icculus the prophet stood before his eyes
Looking down on Colonel Forbin
Where he shuddered in the puddles and the muck
And he quietly addressed him

And he spoke so slowly
He spoke so slowly
Ahead
He said

Colonel Forbin I know why you've come here
And I'll help you with your quest to gain the knowledge that you lack
I call upon my faithful friend the mockingbird
To fly and seize the helping book and bring it to your shack
And a tree of knowledge in your soul will grow
And the Helping Friendly Book will plant the seed
But I warn you that all knowledge seeming innocent and pure
Becomes a deadly weapon in the hands of avarice
And greed

The sacred greed will be yours
And if you wait until tomorrow
The sacred creed will be yours
To devour
Yours
To seize
And to obey
And to obey

-----

15. SONG:

And the famous mockingbird swooped down out of the sky and landed on
Icculus's shoulder, and Icculus whispered into the bird's ear, and it flew
off toward Wilson's castle in the valley below.

FAMOUS MOCKINGBIRD

Fly famous mockingbird
Fly...
Fly famous mockingbird
Fly...

Fly famous mockingbird
Fly...
Fly famous mockingbird
Fly...
Fly...
Fly...
Fly famous mockingbird
Fly...

-----

16. NARRATION:

The next morning at the camp Errand Wolfe and Rutherford stood frozen in
awe as the famous mockingbird flew out of the sky and laid the Helping
Friendly Book at their feet.  The quest for the book had dragged on for so
many years that it's sudden appearance left the men staring in disbelief,
unsure of what their next move should be.  The shock wore off quickly
though, and Errand Wolfe shot into high gear.  He snatched up the book with
one hand and the famous mockingbird with the other, and began to inform
Rutherford of his plan.  He would first kill Wilson, and then put the
Helping Friendly Book to work for him.

With Rutherford's aid he fastened the famous mockingbird to a pole, with
glue and rubber bands, to insure the secrecy of his mission, and then set
out to find the only man in Gamehendge who could handle the job of
eliminating a King.

-----

17. SONG:

SLOTH

They call me the sloth
Way down in the ghetto
Italian Spaghetti
Singing falsetto
Sleeping all day
Rip Van Winklin'
Spend my nights in bars
Glasses tinklin'

I'm so bad
He's so nasty
Ain't got no friends
Real outcasty
Stay out of my way
Or you'll end up a cripple
I'll take this piece of paper
And slice you in the nipple

They call me the sloth
Way down in the ghetto
Italian Spaghetti
Singing falsetto
Sleeping all day
Rip Van Winklin'
Spend my nights in bars
Glasses tinklin'

-----

18. NARRATION:

Colonel Forbin stared at the fourteen bars that stood at the end of the
cell.  He ran his hand across the cold, damp dungeon wall and thought again
about the door.  He had traveled through the door out of necessity.  Once
he knew it existed, he simply couldn't leave it alone.  Just like Wilson.
Just like Tela.  Just like Errand Wolfe.  And he sat in the dungeon, and he
realized that he was back again; through the door.  And through the tiny
window in the corner of his cell, he heard the distant strains.

Errand
Errand
Errand
Errand

And from atop the mountain Icculus looked down on all that went on below
him.  And he smiled.

-----

19. SONG:

POSSUM

I come from atop the mountain baby
Where the people come to pray
I come from atop the mountain baby
Where the people come to pray
There ain't no truth in action
'Less you believe it anyway

I was riding down the road one day and
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day and
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say

Whoa possum...  possum, possum...  POSSUM
Whoa possum...  possum, possum...  POSSUM
Whoa possum, possum
Your end is the road

I was riding down the road one day and
Someone hit a possum
I was riding down the road one day and
Someone hit a possum
The road was his end
His end was the road
So they say

Whoa possum...  possum, possum...  POSSUM
Whoa possum...  possum, possum...  POSSUM
Whoa possum,
Your end is the road
Whoa possum, possum
Your end is the road

-----

20. SONG:

EPILOGUE--LLAMA

Many years after the overthrow of Wilson, a rebel soldier crouching high
on a hilltop above the war torn forests of Gamehendge spots a group of
loyalists approaching from their lakeside encampment below. 
          
His trusty llama stands beside him, loaded down with a canvas pack that
holds two large bazooka type guns to the animal's sides. Near the man sits
a cache of blastoplast, each capable of destroying the entire hillside in
an instant... 

Sunrise over the turquoise mountains
Messenger birds in sight
They came up through the valley
Both sides at a time
Through the cold steady rain
Raid!
I bend down
Poke a double decker on a llama
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Trigger a blastoplast, ramshackle laker recedes
I start to run
It was the loudest thing I'd ever heard
And I knew my time had come
To enter the delta

Leave it on press
Leave it on press
Depress, Depress
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Leave it on press
Depress, Depress
Llama, Taboot Taboot

Llama, Taboot Taboot
Llama, Taboot Taboot
Taboot Taboot
Taboot Taboot
Taboot

-----

21. SONG:

EXTRA MATERIAL-- McGRUPP

I've alternated my meager flock
To the shores of the Baltic Sea
The teeth of time have stowed the rhyme
Of how things should be

My cave, my house, my turning wheel
My little docking pup
The march of Colonel Forbin
And his fleet hound called McGrupp

The grime of countless workdogs
Has collected in my sink
I tie my nose with spandex hose
Before I get a drink

While on frozen warthogs
With its poison in our minds
The ferns that spot our children
Are encased in orange rinds

All times and seasons are the reasons
That people and their clans
Have stowed the Famous Mockingbird
With glue and rubber bands
They writhe and cry in agony
As Rutherford the Brave
Chokes Tela and the Unit Monster
Managing to save

The spotted striper's multi-beast
And thereby cheat his grave
I'd like to get his autograph
But he looks too much like Dave (several x)

-----

22. SONG:

EXTRA MATERIAL-- PUNCH YOU IN THE EYE

I come from the land where the oceans freeze
Spent three long months on the open seas
Paddled 'til it seemed I could take no more
When my ship hit ground on Prussia's shores

How was I to know that day
That the winds had swept me Wilson's way
'Cause soon towards me from the East
Came Wilson and his men on multi-beasts

Well it seems he didn't like my face
And I quickly learned that Prussia was an evil place
They tied me to a chair with a giant clip
And held a piece of paper to my tender nip(ple)

Then they tossed the chair in a tiny shack
And told me not to worry 'cause they'd soon be back
But I loosened up the binds where my hands were lashed
And ran towards the cove where my boat was stashed

Singing "Oh Wilson, someday I'll kill you 'til you die
Oh Wilson, Punch you in the Eye"

When Wilson knew that I was loose
I'd surely be subjected to some real abuse
Maybe end up hanging from the nearest tree
So angrily I paddled to the open sea

But the sea was eager to beat me back
And the waves grew huge and deadly black
And the gray clouds rumbled over my head
And I feared in my heart that I'd soon be dead

When the morning came and the storm had passed
And the dismal fog began at last
To open up before my eyes
And there I saw to my surprise

Chains and specks of islands curved
Where palm trees dipped and seagulls swerved
And I parked my kayak on a stone
And yelled across the ocean to his evil throne

I said "Oh Wilson, someday I'll kill you 'til you die
Oh Wilson, Punch you in the Eye
Wilson, kill you 'til you die
Oh Wilson, Punch you in the Eye"

