(The stage is dark. Fog wafts up from the ground, and a figure, cast in darkness by dramatic backlighting, stands DSL behind an old-fashioned microphone. It is BURNICE, accompanied by THE DARLINGS OF LUMBERLAND. I promise this will all make sense if you hang in there.)
1.1 THE END OF THE TOUR
BURNICE
THERE'S A GIRL WITH A CROWN AND A SCEPTER
WHO'S ON WLSD
AND SHE SAYS THAT THE SCENE ISN'T WHAT IT'S BEEN
AND SHE'S THINKING OF GOING HOME
THAT IT'S OLD AND IT'S TOTALLY OVER NOW
AND IT'S OLD AND IT'S OVER, IT'S OVER NOW
AND IT'S OVER, IT'S OVER, IT'S OVER NOW
I CAN SEE MYSELF
(A pair of backup singers, SLEEPYBONES and MRS. BLUEBEARD, emerge, similarly cast in darkness, and harmonize wordlessly with BURNICE.)
BURNICE
AT THE END OF THE TOUR
WHEN THE ROAD DISAPPEARS
IF THERE'S ANY MORE PEOPLE AROUND
WHEN THE TOUR RUNS AGROUND
AND IF YOU'RE STILL AROUND
THEN WE'LL MEET AT THE END OF THE TOUR
THE ENGAGEMENTS ARE BOOKED THROUGH THE END OF THE WORLD
SO WE'LL MEET AT THE END OF THE TOUR
(The entire band swells in the background, organic and otherworldly.)
BURNICE
NEVER TO PART SINCE THE DAY WE MET
OUT ON INTERSTATE 91
I WAS BENT METAL, YOU WERE A FLAMING WRECK
WHEN WE KISSED AT THE OVERPASS
I WAS SAILING ALONG WITH THE PEOPLE
DRIVING THEMSELVES TO DISTRACTION INSIDE ME
THEN CAME A KNOCK ON THE DOOR WHICH WAS ODD
AND THE PICTURE ABRUPTLY CHANGED
BURNICE, SLEEPYBONES, and MRS. BLUEBEARD
AT THE END OF THE TOUR
WHEN THE ROAD DISAPPEARS
IF THERE'S ANY MORE PEOPLE AROUND
WHEN THE TOUR RUNS AGROUND
AND IF YOU'RE STILL AROUND
THEN WE'LL MEET AT THE END OF THE TOUR
THE ENGAGEMENTS ARE BOOKED THROUGH THE END OF THE WORLD
SO WE'LL MEET AT THE END OF THE TOUR
BURNICE
THIS WAS THE VEHICLE; THESE WERE THE PEOPLE
YOU OPENED THE DOOR AND EXPELLED ALL THE PEOPLE
THIS WAS THE VEHICLE; THESE WERE THE PEOPLE
YOU OPENED THE DOOR AND EXPELLED ALL THE PEOPLE
THIS WAS THE VEHICLE; THESE WERE THE PEOPLE
YOU LET THEM GO
BURNICE, SLEEPYBONES, and MRS. BLUEBEARD
AT THE END OF THE TOUR
WHEN THE ROAD DISAPPEARS
IF THERE'S ANY MORE PEOPLE AROUND
WHEN THE TOUR RUNS AGROUND
AND IF YOU'RE STILL AROUND
THEN WE'LL MEET AT THE END OF THE TOUR
THE ENGAGEMENTS ARE BOOKED THROUGH THE END OF THE WORLD
SO WE'LL MEET AT THE END OF THE TOUR
AND WE'RE NEVER GONNA TOUR AGAIN
NO, WE'RE NEVER GONNA TOUR AGAIN
(The lights go down.)
YOU ARE READING
Good to Be Alive
ParanormalA woman reads too much noir fiction and comes to believe she is actually a hardboiled detective. A young man attempts to put his life back together after tragedy. An abandoned nightclub in the woods. A modern, jukebox-musical retelling of Don Qui...
