re-CREATION
PART ONE
1 - SEA OF ICE (Part I)
Two lost souls meet in the far frozen north for their final confrontation.
"Behold your Creation ... alone on desolate plains of ice we face our mutual sacrifice ..."
2 - YOUNG AND FREE
The two men sit and face each other in the frozen wasteland and remember how it all began.
I remember before my "creation" as a child holding on to a dream, growing up with the realisation only music would set me free. So I learned how to strum out a rhythm and I taught my voice how to cry. It gave me something new to believe in, growing strong as the days passed by. Gather around and I'll sing you a song, give me your hearts and you'll see, happy to play without glory or pay - when I was young I was free. Travelled round playing music for pleasure with my friends in a rock 'n' roll band. Those are the days I will treasure. It's something that you'll never understand. They gathered around and I sang them a song and they entrusted their hearts to me, taking the stage for a minimal wage - feeling so young and so free. I wanted fame, fortune - you smiled and took my hand. You promised great futures if I would leave the band. They gathered around and I spun them a tale and I broke all their hearts with my plight. What would it mean if I could follow my dream? So I left alone that night. You picked me up, took me out for a ride, told me how great it would be to head down the track and never look back to when I was young and was free.
3 - CREATION
The manager offers the boy a ride in his car and the deal of a lifetime - fame, fortune and all its glories. There is only one condition ...
Come boy, you'll be my new creation - I can see a future with you. If we form a close affiliation there is nothing that we can't do. Cut your hair into the latest fashion, new look, designer clothes - we can fill this industry with passion, keep the music scene on its toes. Stick with me and I will make you immortal, take you places that you could never have dreamed. Just stick with me, just wait and see, just you and me. I've got the hits already written, got a photo shoot down in Soho. Let the press know what's about to hit them - TV & radio. Got a band that's ready and waiting - I've used them lots of times in the past - we can do some major celebrating but now we've got to move fast. Come with me and we'll drink to your future, give you riches that you could never have dreamed. Just come with me, just wait and see, just you and me. Chauffer driven limousines, mansion in the Philippines, photo in the Hall Of Fame, your own private jet plane - ha ha! Member of the hottest clubs, you could own a string of pubs, your own private cinema, swimming pool with floating bar - why not? Want a yacht to sail around? Want to own a football ground? Wanna date a movie star? Get yourself some fast cars? Come on! Be in all the magazines, be on all the TV screens, video, radio, download audio - you will be the biggest, the hottest that they've ever seen! Believe in me, just wait and see, just you and me. There is just one thing that I insist on, listen close 'cos this is the deal. For this to work we've got to have a system, doesn't matter how you might feel. From now on you are my Creation - you don't speak to anyone else - no press, no contact with relations, you gotta keep yourself to yourself. Say goodbye to your family forever, say farewell to your lovers and friends. Say hello to the new rock sensation! You and me, together, right to the end.
4 - RISE AND FALL
(i) One Big Party
The rise to stardom of the new rock sensation - "Boy". All the trappings of fame and fortune and the loneliness it brings.
Took a while for you to shape and bend me, called me "Boy" and you made me a star. Saw nobody but the people you sent me, all alone just a boy and guitar in a castle you built me, empty rooms all around. Isolation, it almost killed me, not a soul to be found. Down I waved and drowned. So you fixed me up with hookers and candy, kept me quiet in my palace of sin in a world where nobody would find me, making sure that the secrets stayed in. Round the globe I was famous, my voice in every home, unaware of the money I'd made us I was strung out and stoned. And that's when Elizabeth phoned ... I never knew you had a wife and daughter. I never thought you had a life elsewhere. Why shouldn't I see my friends and family? Why shouldn't I show my face out there? You promised me it would be one big party. You promised me I would never look back. You left me here, high and empty-hearted. You left me here with my drink and smack. Take these whores out! Break these doors down! Shake these thoughts out!
One big party ... one big party ... help me ... help me ...
(ii) One Big Comedown
(Instrumental)
"Boy" suffers a nervous breakdown brought on by the excesses of
drink and drugs.
5 - THE WORLD OUTSIDE (Part I)
The escape from the mental turmoil brought on by the breakdown and the escape from the physical imprisonment of the castle.
I've been hiding in here looking through these windows at the world outside. I can see that something's happening here - have I missed the goal that I held so dear? There's lots of voices in here telling me that pain's better kept inside. I can feel that something's missing in here living in a world full of lies and fear. A hidden magic moves beneath the surface, if you're silent then your soul can hear. Conjure hope from the emptiness around you and the clouds disappear. I can see it out there shining like a beacon on the rocky coast. I can see that everything's become clear, freedom makes the pain start to disappear. There's lots of voices out there telling me my mind needs an open door. I can feel that something's calling me there, clawing through the clouds of my own despair. A hidden magic moves beneath the surface, if you're silent then your soul can hear.
Conjure hope from the emptiness around you and the doubts disappear. People sleeping round here. I can make my way through unguarded doors. I can see that there's a way out of here,
under cover of the night I can disappear. I can hide out there, I can find my way to uncharted lands. I can feel that there's a future out there underneath the gaze of the spotlight's glare. Slipped
away, no-one noticed. Disappeared into darkness. For two long years I roamed ...
6 - DANCE OF THE ELECTRIC GYPSY (Instrumental)
Now free to roam incognito, the former rockstar travels the country. In a forest clearing he encounters a group of gypsies and the beautiful dancing girl Rosalie with whom he falls
immediately in love. He seduces her and they spend the night together.
7 - WHAT HAVE I DONE?
After a night of passion fuelled by drink and drugs, he awakes to find he has committed a terrible act of violence of which he remembers nothing. Terrified, he disappears into the woods.
I woke alone, I looked around, my laboured breathing the only sound. My Rosalie not by my side, a hazy memory stirring deep inside. Climbed from the bed, a glimpse of red - not from her dress, these marks were fresh. My panic rose, I grabbed my clothes and tensed as I opened up the door and saw her broken body on the floor ... Oh my God! Tell me what have I done? I can't remember a thing! In heat of passion my anger took hold, the blood of a ruined angel stained upon my hands - my soul forever will be DAMNED!
8 - THE CHASE
(Instrumental)
Suspecting something is wrong, the gypsies break into Rosalie's caravan and discover her murdered body. Outraged they gather together and, armed with guns and knives, pursue the man they know to be responsible for her death into the woods. Hearing them close behind him the panic-stricken man flees for his life. Head spinning and heart pounding - about to burst - he collapses and falls down a steep, slippery bank and into a rushing river below. A river whose current takes the unconscious man downstream and away from harm before depositing his bruised and battered frame on to the bank where he lies motionless, silent and barely breathing ...
... but ALIVE!
1 - SEA OF ICE (Part I)
Two lost souls meet in the far frozen north for their final confrontation.
"Behold your Creation ... alone on desolate plains of ice we face our mutual sacrifice ..."
2 - YOUNG AND FREE
The two men sit and face each other in the frozen wasteland and remember how it all began.
I remember before my "creation" as a child holding on to a dream, growing up with the realisation only music would set me free. So I learned how to strum out a rhythm and I taught my voice how to cry. It gave me something new to believe in, growing strong as the days passed by. Gather around and I'll sing you a song, give me your hearts and you'll see, happy to play without glory or pay - when I was young I was free. Travelled round playing music for pleasure with my friends in a rock 'n' roll band. Those are the days I will treasure. It's something that you'll never understand. They gathered around and I sang them a song and they entrusted their hearts to me, taking the stage for a minimal wage - feeling so young and so free. I wanted fame, fortune - you smiled and took my hand. You promised great futures if I would leave the band. They gathered around and I spun them a tale and I broke all their hearts with my plight. What would it mean if I could follow my dream? So I left alone that night. You picked me up, took me out for a ride, told me how great it would be to head down the track and never look back to when I was young and was free.
3 - CREATION
The manager offers the boy a ride in his car and the deal of a lifetime - fame, fortune and all its glories. There is only one condition ...
Come boy, you'll be my new creation - I can see a future with you. If we form a close affiliation there is nothing that we can't do. Cut your hair into the latest fashion, new look, designer clothes - we can fill this industry with passion, keep the music scene on its toes. Stick with me and I will make you immortal, take you places that you could never have dreamed. Just stick with me, just wait and see, just you and me. I've got the hits already written, got a photo shoot down in Soho. Let the press know what's about to hit them - TV & radio. Got a band that's ready and waiting - I've used them lots of times in the past - we can do some major celebrating but now we've got to move fast. Come with me and we'll drink to your future, give you riches that you could never have dreamed. Just come with me, just wait and see, just you and me. Chauffer driven limousines, mansion in the Philippines, photo in the Hall Of Fame, your own private jet plane - ha ha! Member of the hottest clubs, you could own a string of pubs, your own private cinema, swimming pool with floating bar - why not? Want a yacht to sail around? Want to own a football ground? Wanna date a movie star? Get yourself some fast cars? Come on! Be in all the magazines, be on all the TV screens, video, radio, download audio - you will be the biggest, the hottest that they've ever seen! Believe in me, just wait and see, just you and me. There is just one thing that I insist on, listen close 'cos this is the deal. For this to work we've got to have a system, doesn't matter how you might feel. From now on you are my Creation - you don't speak to anyone else - no press, no contact with relations, you gotta keep yourself to yourself. Say goodbye to your family forever, say farewell to your lovers and friends. Say hello to the new rock sensation! You and me, together, right to the end.
4 - RISE AND FALL
(i) One Big Party
The rise to stardom of the new rock sensation - "Boy". All the trappings of fame and fortune and the loneliness it brings.
Took a while for you to shape and bend me, called me "Boy" and you made me a star. Saw nobody but the people you sent me, all alone just a boy and guitar in a castle you built me, empty rooms all around. Isolation, it almost killed me, not a soul to be found. Down I waved and drowned. So you fixed me up with hookers and candy, kept me quiet in my palace of sin in a world where nobody would find me, making sure that the secrets stayed in. Round the globe I was famous, my voice in every home, unaware of the money I'd made us I was strung out and stoned. And that's when Elizabeth phoned ... I never knew you had a wife and daughter. I never thought you had a life elsewhere. Why shouldn't I see my friends and family? Why shouldn't I show my face out there? You promised me it would be one big party. You promised me I would never look back. You left me here, high and empty-hearted. You left me here with my drink and smack. Take these whores out! Break these doors down! Shake these thoughts out!
One big party ... one big party ... help me ... help me ...
(ii) One Big Comedown
(Instrumental)
"Boy" suffers a nervous breakdown brought on by the excesses of
drink and drugs.
5 - THE WORLD OUTSIDE (Part I)
The escape from the mental turmoil brought on by the breakdown and the escape from the physical imprisonment of the castle.
I've been hiding in here looking through these windows at the world outside. I can see that something's happening here - have I missed the goal that I held so dear? There's lots of voices in here telling me that pain's better kept inside. I can feel that something's missing in here living in a world full of lies and fear. A hidden magic moves beneath the surface, if you're silent then your soul can hear. Conjure hope from the emptiness around you and the clouds disappear. I can see it out there shining like a beacon on the rocky coast. I can see that everything's become clear, freedom makes the pain start to disappear. There's lots of voices out there telling me my mind needs an open door. I can feel that something's calling me there, clawing through the clouds of my own despair. A hidden magic moves beneath the surface, if you're silent then your soul can hear.
Conjure hope from the emptiness around you and the doubts disappear. People sleeping round here. I can make my way through unguarded doors. I can see that there's a way out of here,
under cover of the night I can disappear. I can hide out there, I can find my way to uncharted lands. I can feel that there's a future out there underneath the gaze of the spotlight's glare. Slipped
away, no-one noticed. Disappeared into darkness. For two long years I roamed ...
6 - DANCE OF THE ELECTRIC GYPSY (Instrumental)
Now free to roam incognito, the former rockstar travels the country. In a forest clearing he encounters a group of gypsies and the beautiful dancing girl Rosalie with whom he falls
immediately in love. He seduces her and they spend the night together.
7 - WHAT HAVE I DONE?
After a night of passion fuelled by drink and drugs, he awakes to find he has committed a terrible act of violence of which he remembers nothing. Terrified, he disappears into the woods.
I woke alone, I looked around, my laboured breathing the only sound. My Rosalie not by my side, a hazy memory stirring deep inside. Climbed from the bed, a glimpse of red - not from her dress, these marks were fresh. My panic rose, I grabbed my clothes and tensed as I opened up the door and saw her broken body on the floor ... Oh my God! Tell me what have I done? I can't remember a thing! In heat of passion my anger took hold, the blood of a ruined angel stained upon my hands - my soul forever will be DAMNED!
8 - THE CHASE
(Instrumental)
Suspecting something is wrong, the gypsies break into Rosalie's caravan and discover her murdered body. Outraged they gather together and, armed with guns and knives, pursue the man they know to be responsible for her death into the woods. Hearing them close behind him the panic-stricken man flees for his life. Head spinning and heart pounding - about to burst - he collapses and falls down a steep, slippery bank and into a rushing river below. A river whose current takes the unconscious man downstream and away from harm before depositing his bruised and battered frame on to the bank where he lies motionless, silent and barely breathing ...
... but ALIVE!