Elaine Walker
Frontier Creatures (1999)
1. FRONTIER CREATURE
2. SPACE GEN
3. BUCHLA RISE (immortal mix) (19 tet)
4. SPACE MAN
5. PLANETARIUM
6. BIG BANG (space-time mix) (19 tet / 10 tet)
7. AD ASTRA
8. BACK TO THE MOON
9. 10TH PLANET (10 tet)
Music and lyrics by Elaine Walker
Lyrics on 2 by Peter Diamandis
5 by Liz Lysinger and Elaine
Drums on 1 and 7 by Gary Vitagliano
Produced by Elaine Walker
1, 4 and 7 co-produced by Dan Mullen
All songs copyright 1999 ZIA (ASCAP) All rights reserved
Released by ZIA and Chaos Control Productions, Inc.
1. FRONTIER CREATURE
With a wandering spirit
We've been here for a millennium
Then it happened in an instant
We became so unadventurous.
But we're surrounded by an ocean
And boundaries can be broken
We're wanderers
An ancient voice has spoken.
Let's sail upon the solar wind
Sail in three dimensions
We're frontier creatures again.
We've been traveling in circles
Finding places we've already been
Now we're closing in upon ourselves.
But we've found a new direction
And boundaries can be broken
We're wanderers
An ancient voice has spoken.
When we're settled on another world
When we've made ourselves comfortable
It won't seem like we are out of place
It will feel like we are home again.
2. SPACE GEN
lyrics by Peter Diamandis
I'm gonna settle down near a distant star
and start the world again.
I'm gonna raise my children my own way.
I'm look'n for that promised land with no limits on me
Gonna travel high and far, in a star laden sea.
I've been told that I'm foolish to run away from Earth.
She's more than our cradle, we belong to her.
But I don't believe, they're wrong and quick to speak,
these humans who lack dreams, the mindless and the meek.
I've been called to the heavens by the song of distant lands,
since a child I've been waiting, open mind and open hands.
I was born into the Space Generation.
I belong to the Space Gen.
My birth right is the heavens
from this planet I've been torn,
I belong to the Space Gen,
I was told when I was born.
It's been five-thousand years
since my father came this way,
from an ancient world called Earth,
on that fateful day.
Now the universe once barren,
is alive as it could be,
planet loads of humanoids
who dared to cross the sea.
They started on a blue-green speck,
and heard the cosmic call,
the tale of a prosperous land, infinity for all.
Now our home is the Universe,
no captives we shall be,
the simple truth we finally found,
we know our destiny.
To be free of our bodies, shapeless as a storm,
free of ancient laws and ancient ties,
pure energy our form.
Transcending all that ever was,
we listen one last time
for the cosmic whisper, spoken in our prime
3. BUCHLA RISE
(immortal mix)
We let our capsule drift
Sailing into emptiness
Here there is no wind
Here we have no reflection
We've been called into space
By her alluring voice
To go to a new place
Now we have a choice
She cast a spell on me
With her magnetic mystery
I have forsaken this world
For a new spherical entity
It's no longer sci-fi
We see it without eyes
We have become immortal
On our Buchla Rise
4. SPACE MAN
Your eyes, so fresh, so true
You come into this world and we confuse you
Don't forget
You say you want to be a space man
Don't forget
Don't forget that we all love you
So take a chance 'cause we believe in you
Just don't follow in our footsteps
'Cause I know they'll get you nowhere
6. BIG BANG!
(space-time mix))
Born out of darkness
Descended from pure energy
Symmetrical and timeless,
When something broke the symmetry.
I came alive, I was born in the Big Bang
A superposition, of infinite geometries
Interfering reinforcing, adding like a sound wave
Eleven dimensions, four that we live in
Seven are hidden, will we ever know them?
And from the vacuum, instant cosmology
Matter antimatter, exploded into everything!
I came alive, I was born in the Big Bang
I close my eyes, I can see we are growing
Through space and time, on a journey to knowing
I came alive, I was born in the Big Bang.
