Name: Derelict
Duration: P00H03M25S
Description: This is a bit of an experiment, in that there's no stringed instruments at all! Still, I think it tells the story.

Derelict

by Wyld Dandelyon

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This is a bit of an experiment, in that there's no stringed instruments at all! Still, I think it tells the story.

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Derelict
Deirdre M Murphy

When there’s nothing to hear but your life pod
And there’s nothing to see but stars
When there’s no sign of a rescue squad
Just a readout screen counting the hours
You don’t believe, but you say “Oh, God”
And you never wrote your memoirs

The stars spin, they’re alien beauties
You think what you haven’t done yet
Were you derelict in conscience or duties?
Hah—derelict, get it? There’s no one to get it
No one to hear your jokes or your pleas
It’s too easy to count each regret

No point. You set up the beacon
Make a record, speak your goodbyes
Make an end the same way you begun
And hope for rescue instead of demise
There’s naught left but to push the button
Slow sleep—while there’s breath—while your life pod flies

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released September 9, 2023
Words and music by Deirdre M. Murphy

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Deirdre Murphy is Wyld Dandelyon. She is a filker, a multi-instrumentalist, poet, and occasionally a speculative fiction writer. Come travel the many worlds of the imagination with her.

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