Take Me to the Moon 4.12: I Only Meant to Stay a While

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This post is meant to be viewed while playing the music on the player to the right, and scrolled through in pace with the lyrics.  Eventually, I hope to replace this post with a slideshow but it is taking time to work out the technical issues.  Thanks!

Electric Light Orchestra

Time

Prologue

"Just on the border of your waking mind
There lies... Another time
Where darkness & light are one
And as you tread the halls of sanity
You feel so glad to be
Unable to go beyond

I have a message
From another time...

(Pause scrolling through the post, and music will transition to the song Twilight...)

The visions dancing in my mind 

The early dawn, the shades of time 

 Twilight crawling through my windowpane 

Am I awake or do I dream,

The strangest pictures I have seen 

Night is day and twilight's gone away

With your head held high and your scarlet lies 

You came down to me from the open skies 

It's either real or it's a dream 

There's nothing that is in between

Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile 

Twilight, I gave you Time to steal my mind 

Away from me.

 

Across the night I saw your face 

You disappeared without a trace 

You brought me here, but can you take me back

Inside the image of your light 

That now is day and once was night 

You lead me here and then you go away.

It's either real or it's a dream, there's nothing that is in between.

Twilight, Twilight, Twilight









I give you Time
to steal my mind

Away from me













You brought me here now can you take me back again?
With your head held high and your scarlet lies,
you came down to me from the open skies











It's either real or its a dream, there's nothing that is in between

Twilight, I only meant to stay awhile
Twilight, I give you Time,
to steal my mind

Twilight,
I only meant to stay a while

Twilight,
 I only meant to stay awhile 

Twilight, Twilight, Twilight, Twilight

(Epilogue, 
pause scrolling as the Epilogue begins)

You should be so happy

You should be so glad

21st century man.

Though you ride on the wheels of tomorrow
You still wander the fields of your sorrow.

Time, Time, Time, Time.

All text in this post is directly quoted from the album Time by Electric Light Orchestra, Released 1981, Jet Records.

Take Me to the Moon 4.11: Mortimer's Wake

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All the grown-ups were preparing for the wake, scurrying around, getting dressed, and Desmond was free to be sad without having to talk to anyone.  

Before they brought in the piano, Elise had seen him crying, but she hadn't said anything to him.

Take Me to the Moon 4.10: Once More Unto the Breach

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The day dawned, just like every other day, except someone had knocked over the trash can.  Elise saw the trash piles, presumably from her bedroom, and mischievously decided to play in them right before it was time to go to school.

Mortimer was sent to clean up the trash, hopefully before Elise got too dirty for school.   Unfortunately, the Grim Reaper chose this very moment to come for Mortimer.