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		"INTERGALACTIC (sung by Osirah, then Shiny): Osirah, trembling, appears unaccompanied before Ruby and Shiny, having made a similar calculation that Ruby would choose to take Shiny off-planet. Undaunted, and fearless until this moment, Osirah holds in hand a weapon trained on Shiny, insisting that the pair must listen and recognize the message of faith that Osirah alone embodies. And how it is Shiny who stands in the way of the planet[']s progresss [sic]. Unexpectedy, it is Osirah's hesitation that allows 'The X + I' to join the fray, and who by stealth have trained their weapons on the frightened teen. In response, Shiny encourages Osirah to act and act quickly; for he has faced far bigger foes than a messed up kid like Osirah, with notions of some universal fidelity not born of God." (ATUM story notes)
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			Bain of the breath how do I find you?Thin back the cranes left in sky
 As sacrifice, without last rite
 It falls on thee to judge most high
 
 In the pearl of a slummed day
 The spirit of us was felt as soft cry
 Yes, I'm sure you've inspired with love
 But one is more than you are of one
 It's time we say goodbye to fair
 Farewell to fate as wrung
 
 What makes thee thy true assassin
 You must ask but yet you know
 As equals, as peoples
 As bred foes we are the same
 
 In parried odes to thy mountains
 The spirit of us was pungent laughter
 When every road is traveled hard
 When every tear is shed for dirt
 It's time we say goodbye to fair
 Farewell to fate wrung
 We'll leave our first kiss
 For another lifetime
 Another swell time
 Another springtime
 Another...
 
 The voice of god is silence found
 The breath of life is borrowed toil
 Lift the cross I'm falling down
 Peg the pale and brand forlorn
 They wouldn't cure, they needn't seal
 They wouldn't save an honest savior's soul
 
 Count zero-zero
 Zero save Zero
 Count zero-zero
 Zero save Zero
 
 Zero save Zero
 Zero save Zero
 Zero save Zero
 In shadowed apses chant my names
 Not by birth but the ones thus claimed
 Zero save Zero
 Mother knew but she couldn't know
 What they'd do and what they'd howl, yeah
 Zero save Zero
 In situ, Zero
 
 You think you're first
 You think you're last
 You feel you're chosen
 Choose what comes to pass
 Count zero-zero
 Zero save Zero
 Count zero-zero
 Zero save Zero
 Zero-zed-zero
 Zero save Zero
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			ATUM : A Rock Opera In Three Acts
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