The Ballad of Fallen Rock and Suzi Sioux

Aqui Ahora
the libretto

Aqui Ahora
Here. Now. A pun on Now Here, nowhere. Aqui also being a pun on the sonal: A key, the key of A, which the Act sonically explores. Raising animals as plants, have we become so civilized.

Lorrie Driver
As always, we are on the road, an endless river. As passengers, we are afforded a respite, even if we're going nowhere fast. The Lorrie Driver will take you there, now.
A motif from Vegetable Man, where are you. Here. Now.

Coming Down
We head into the final countdown, mere measures until the end. What have we found? Boy meets Girl, the Dance of Life. Is that all? Is it enough? But wait, there's more.

Perchance to Dream
Life. That which is hidden is often right in front of us.

Fallen
So much of perception is projection. Can we save ourselves from our own mistakes, our own accidents? Tears of sorrow, tears of joy, sometimes happen at the same time.

the Reckoning
But what of our protagonists Fallen Rock and Suzi Sioux? Was it an accident that erased all memory of the other? Did a car crash shred their shards of knowledge? Did a retake correct a mistake?
Who are Fallen Rock and Suzi Sioux?
Why, they are me and you. You and me. Yous and the me. Us and them. We are all them. We are the same.
I reckon.

Lorrie Driver 
     bdg1: D6.Am76
     1. 2x[D6.Gmaj7](i). F#3maj7-5.G7.C7. 
     2. Eb.F7.B.A7
     v. [1.2.1i]  v2. [1.2]
     bdg2. Am76.D6

     -> bdg1.v.v2.2modG.2modB.v.bdg1.bdg2.v.i
 
     pick me up, take me anywhere
     pick me up, take me there
     pick me up, take me everywhere

     Lorrie Driver

     pick me up
     take me

     here now


^
Coming Down 
     intro: 2x Bb9.Ab9
     ch: F.A Bb. F.Bb C. F.A Bb. F.C Bb
     bdg: 2x Eb.Bb.Eb.Ab
     v:   2x Db.Ab.Db.F. Db.Ab.C

     coda: [698.5,320],880,[2637,320],329.6,3322,[1109,320] @260bpm

     => i.ch.bdg.2x v.ch.bdg.2x ch. F (AM7)
 
     chorus:
     Coming down, it's coming down, coming down

     verse:
     Have you ever been so far away
     ever been inside
     a moment
     butterfly hurricane

     the only here is now
     the future's just yesterday
     you can plot that on a graph
     fold the space and throw it all away
     
^
Perchance to Dream 
     1: 4x[ Dmaj7.E.Bm7.Amaj7 ]
     2: 3x[ D5+.Bm ] C7. C#mM7
     3: F#m79.Dm

     -> 2x[1.2].3.1.2
 
     
     Perchance to Dream
     at the harlequinne factory
     scintillating

     Put up the sky
     in the dream factory

     Pickle juice served
     at the crypt of rays
     
^
Fallen 
     1. 2x[ E6(7).Bm79].2x[G7.Dm(7) ]
     2. 2x[ C#m7.Dmaj7.A9. F#mmaj7+5 ] . 2xF#...

     -> 1.2.1.2.1modG#.2
 
     help me I've fallen
     help me please to get up

     now I'm gone
     now I've cried
     what has passed
     is still the past

     now I'm sick
     I am the cure

     first time I died
     I remembered it wasn't the first

     I am the cure
     for my own sick
     
^
the Reckoning 
     1: A (C#.A.G.E.G) [Dm - Gm]
     2: A-Bb.D. A-Bb.C#. A-Bb.D. A-Bb.Bb.
     3: (6/8 waltz)F#m.E5(4).D5(4).C. Bm.A5(4).G5(4).F.
        (4/4) Edim7.F6.Gm.A.Bb.C#6(minus 5 or Bbm).D9
     --> 2x[ 2x1.2.3 ] .1(coda)
 
     Darwin calling, gotta get my stupid fix
     
     using only words, prove you're not
     just quantum noise of the cosmic charade

     i reckon
     you(d) think so

     now without words, prove you're not
     just quantum noise of the cosmic charade

     i reckon
     you(d) think so

^