Pupsies - a Pawtastic New Musical

The Truth about the Moon

[David runs down a dirty alleyway, panting and despite to find his baby brother.]

DAVID (Barking worriedly)

Les! Les! LES! Where are you?

[He sees Les sitting under a fire escape, his head down.]

DAVID (Running to Les)

Les there you are! I thought I was gonna lose ya.

[Les looks up at Davey, his eyes miserable. Davey knew that not even Les was that talented to fake his eyes to be so sad. Davey sits with Les.]

LES (Heartbroken)

How could Jack do that, Davey?

[Silence fills the pup's beating hearts. It starts to rain: Little rain drops fall on the concrete streets.]

DAVID

Well... Like the other pups said, he's a traitor. A sell out.

LES

Did he really throw the whole strike away just for a bag of treats?

DAVID (Sighing)

I can't answer that honestly, Les. But the only thing I do know is that he turned out to be...

[Davey looks up at the sky.]

DAVID

Like the Moon, mysterious and a heart of iron

LES

So does that mean he'll be bigger in Cowdog Ranch?

DAVID

Why would the moon be bigger in Cowdog Ranch?

LES

Well, I heard Jack howling something like that. But I thought the moon was something bright and beautiful?

DAVID

Well not anymore.

[Another moment of silence passes as the brothers listen to the rain steadily pouring more and more.]

LES

Davey, can you tell me more about the moon?

DAVID

Of course I can

~*THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MOON*~

DAVID (Copying Les' voice)

Ooh. The Moon is bigger in Cowdog Ranch [Les sightly smiles.]

DAVID

Honesty Moon, a natural partner with the Earth...

DAVID (Softly sung while Les leans against him)

Known to some as: Luna

Hundreds of cities and paw steps away from here.

No signs of water or life

or atmosphere.

[Les falls asleep, Davey licks Les forehead and looks out at the rain.]

DAVID (Sung)

This is the truth about the moon

The facts are black and white, and yet I couldn't think of one while watching it tonight

I saw the words all fly away, so fast, so far

Till every action, every word had turned into a star [He looks up at the moon.]

And was the moon especially bright?

I really can't recall

And this was the first time the facts of the matter didn't matter at all

Shall I try to deny all I've known for a moment that's gone

Would my heart let me be someone different from me from now on?

DAVID (Sighing)

No.

DAVID (Sung)

I learned the truth about the moon

The facts I learned are right

I only wish it made me feel like the lies I learned tonight

DAVID (Gently moving Les so that he's lying down)

Lies from that dreamer, that money loving ranch dog. Who believes in a fantasy called Cowdog Ranch

DAVID (Sung)

Known to me as: Jack

Someone who gets by with some lies

Having no substance he compensates with style.

This is the truth about the pup, there's nothing more to say

Though when the strike started, I could not walk away

And if I first thought he was who he claimed he was

It's just because that kind of pup must be good at what he does

but then as fast as raindrops he was my friend

Then I thought how I was treated was normal for all friendships

[He walks out of the shelter of the fire escape into the rain.]

DAVID (Sung bitterly)

Drive away

Cowdog Ranch

You're the seed of a dream not a plan.

Lovely dream, still it seems,

Like the dream of a pup

Not a dog

[Davey looks back at Les.]

DAVID (Sung empty)

So, at least my whines are very few down here in my cocoon

Where I'm protected by my facts, like the truth about the moon

DAVID (Looking back at the moon)

Moon, a natural partner with the Earth.

The same size no matter where you are.

DAVID (Sung)

Known to some as: Luna.

Known to pups as: Scab

[David gets out of the pouring rain, he shakes his fur out and lies down next to Les, cuddling close to him. The brothers sleep away on this cold night of Bark York.]