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Oh, the Mission is clear
To steer that black hole away from Earth
Away from all of us
It threatens to destroy
With its big gaping void
It threatens to treat us
Just like a little toy
Pablua Ursa,
Courageous envoy
Sailin' through the black hole
To see what she can do
To see if she can reason
With the Insectoids
The warrior race
Who's come to destroy the Earth.
Pablua Ursa,
Tell us what it's worth
Pablua Ursa,
Hero of the Galaxy!
Pablua Ursa,
Hero of the Galaxy
Come to see a new way
To express reality
With music and song,
It won't be long
'Til those creatures feel heard enough
To end up where they belong.
It'll take a the love you've got
It'll take everything you've got
And you'll have a lot
It'll take you, it'll take you everything, Pablua
Everything you've got!
Wooo!
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Deep Space
02:44
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Pablua Ursa, deep in space
Gone to save the whole human race
Can it be done, she doesn't know
She's gone to stop that black hole
Driven by a race called the Insectoids
They're flinging everything they've got,
They're flinging the void
Pablua took a crew,
Don't know what they're gonna do
Gonna try to stop that black hole
From swallowing me and you
In deep space
You get a new face
Gotta face your fears,
Gotta face the tears
Ain't a star for a million years
Ain't a light to guide you by
The weight on your shoulders
It is enough to make you cry
Even though you're weightless
Your fate isn't fateless
And destiny is reachin'
All around your cabin door
It's crying out for more
Yeah Pablua Ursa, they're sailing on
Sailing to the land where there is no dawn
Into deep space territory
Where the human race has never gone
To tell a story
To save us all
To communicate to that race
That's tied to a black hole
The Insectoids
It's a billion a miles
From here to there
They gotta bring rations,
They gotta bring care
They gotta bring their best clothes...
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The Insectoid Ship
05:13
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Oh Pablua and her Crew sailin' in that deep blue
Sailin' into outer space to try to save the race of me and you
Goin' to that black hole of the Insectoids
To try to tell them to let go of that void
Pablua wants to get closer to that skeleton ship
Shaped like a metal hull twisted into a thousand metal strips
With spikes and gauges, and all sorts of metal cages
Drifting on the edge of that black hole that's lasted through the ages
Now the radio signal comes in from that skeleton ship
That's been for ten thousand years adrift
And all Pablua hears is screeching from the other end
It kinda sounds like this my friend
(screeching)
So Pablua, the brave hero, decides to go on
Take a little escape pod and investigate the cause
And they get closer to that ghostly array
Time seems to melt and their life fades away
And they are terrified of what they see
Tryin' to reason with the enemy
And they send one last signal before the lights go out
And the ship starts to drift towards that black hole spout
And they're goin' in
Pablua's going into the black hole
Signal's jammed by the insects now
Pablua's going into the black hole
And it's all over now
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Oh, she opens her eyes,
And to her surprise
She is not dead
But covered with light
Oh, she opens her eyes
To her surprise
There are great giant worms
Flying over her head
Then they speak to her
In a voice so plain
"Let go of your judgement
Let go of your pain
For you to see
The humanity
Of the enemy
You'll need to be
In love"
"You see, the truth about the insectoids
Is they did not set out to destroy
They were once like you,
A world teeming with playful girls and boys
And in-betweens
But they were conquered
By another race
They were conquered
And chained up into space"
You must try to see
Oh, Pablua
You must try to reach
Through the noise
Through your fears
Through your doubts
And your sorrow
And the years of pain."
And Pablua asked
"How can I do that?"
And they said
"Sing."
And they send her on her way
Back into space
Through the black hole
With a new face
A face of compassion
A face of wise action
A face of love,
Of grace
Of love for all.
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Have you ever been
Through a black hole?
There's only one who has
And it's a wild ride through a black hole
It makes you feel like a spaz...
You're being stretched out, stretched thin
Stretched out of your oxygen
Pablua Ursa, barely hanging on for her life...
She's goin' through a black hole
Through a black hole, giddy-up
Through a black hole
Her memory is being stretched thin
Her mind is rended to oblivion
She is killed, she is reborn
As the tunnel closes up behind her
She sees the stars ahead
She sees the insect ship
She sees the path ahead
She sees a new relationship
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Oh, Pablua
on the other side of a black hole
Back where she came from,
She returns
To the nebula
She's incredulous,
She's a legend
She's got everything in front of her to do
So she turns on her telecom
She's trying to punch through
To the insectoids who have tuned her out
Through no fault of their own
You see they've been chained up to that black hole
For the past ten thousand years
Attached to the event horizon
And there they've had to live in fear
Oh-
You see, they're too afraid to let go
Too afraid of what they don't know
Too afraid, too afraid to surrender into that black hole
So Pablua taps into the mission
Taps into compassion
And plays into their radio
And starts to sing
A little bit of their song
It starts out weak, but it soon gets strong
And she says "oh, oh oh oh!
You'll soon be where you belong my friends,
oh, oh oh oh! And nobody really knows where it ends,
oh, oh oh oh! You must not be afraid to let go.
I know it's scary, but I have done it-
And on the other side there is hope
I know it's scary, but I have done it
And on the side there is a whole new world
Waitin' for you
And I am sorry for what they did to you
And I am sorry for the pain they put you through
And I am sorry- if I can heal you, then I will do my best
I swear it on my breast
And she said "oh, oh oh oh!"
And she sang "oh oh oh !"
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Homecoming, Fanfare
03:57
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"Oh we hear you loud and clear
For the first time in ten thousand years
We hear you loud and clear
And your music's music to our ears
You see we've lived in fear
Of losing everything we had
Of fathers losing children
Children losing their dads
We feared the end of our race
We saw it so clear
But you have shined your face
Like a bright silver mirror."
And they turned their engine off
Which had run for so very long
Trusting the word of Pablua
That they would get where they belong
And the ship began to drift
Slowly at first
And some among them
Still feared the very worst
And the ship got smaller and smaller
Fading into the void
Pablua knew their work was done
They knew that they'd saved the race of the insectoids
From terror, from fear
From sadness of ten thousand years
And they turned to head home
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Pablua Ursa, Hero of the Galaxy
Follow the first star, a way to see reality
Finding a new way to strike out among the stars
To heal the planets that are not ours
To save the race of the insectoids
To save 'em from the endless noise of the void
With a song and a chant, they can and they can't
But they believe in themselves, taking the worlds off the shelves
They say disappear into the black hole, let go of your troubles
Disappear into the black hole, into that giant space bubble
But they don't trust her, yeah, they don't know if they can
They don't know if they trust that space human
And they play them music to soothe their ears
They play them music to heal ten thousand years
Of pain, of anguish, of sorrow, of anger
And in they go-- they're letting go of the danger
Pablua Ursa, Hero of the Galaxy
Learning a new way to perceive reality
Comin' up short, coming' up strong
Violet corts, growing on Saturn where they belong
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Homecoming, Fanfare v3.1
03:12
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Surrender into that black hole of your life
Surrender that black hole and you'll be born anew
On the other side there is life
Not death, like they told you
You gotta give up your fears
And your hatred
And your judgement
To find that which is sacred-
On the other side of your fear
You will see it all so clear
As on a polished mirror
You will see your face so dear,
Pablua Ursa!
Victorious at last,
Victorious at last!
Pablua goin' home
Victorious at last
She has brought peace
To the galaxy
She has brought peace to you and me
With a chant and a song,
Yeah it won't be long!
Til' those creatures are back at home
Where they belong
In a new home in a new place in a distant galaxy
With a new poem, and a new face
And life for you and me
It's her destiny
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Doctor Delia Asheville, North Carolina
Student of ritual, practitioner of loopy songs, magician of mushroom mayhem.
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