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Eiffel: A Rock Opera (NaSoAlMo 2016)

by Tim King / Axolotl Daydream

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Overture 02:54
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THE CITY OF LIGHTS Look at night upon the city of lights Everything’s so lovely in the city at night So drink up your absinthe and sleep in the Luxemburg Gardens Gay Paris is the City of Lights (the city of lights) - echo everything we do is such a delight Thank you Edison and in the summer there’s flowers and We can drink for hours and smell the virgin bowers all night long Look at night upon the city of lights People are so busy on the streets here at night There taking carriage rides and Little Eisenhour Wish that we had a tower and we could drink for hours Wish that we had a tower And we could dance for hours all night long all night long all night.
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Precision! 03:45
PRECISION! (Uncle Molle Rat's Song) How does the bricklayer lay the right amount of bricks? How does he know the precise amount to mix? When the Conciergerie’s* off, how does it get fixed? With precision With precision How does the vintner make the perfect bordeaux? What helps the gardener make his lovely flowers grow? Who was the best friend of Michelangelo? It’s precision precision But just to know the ways and wheres and how and whys that something works isn’t all you need For we must delve into the issues very essence if one wants to succeed! What makes the door fit exactly in the jam? How does the scholar excel at his exam? What makes the tiny baby fit into her pram? It’s precision it’s precision How did the architect design the Palace of Versailles? How did Moses reach Mt. Sinai What made de Lome's airship sail across the sky? But just know the ways and wheres and how and whys that something works just isn’t all you need For we must delve into the issues very essence if one wants to succeed How does the harpist pluck upon his lyre? What makes the lonely crank turn the eager gear? How does a train from Prague get all the way to here? How does the draughtsman locate the midpoint? How does the carpenter make a dove tail joint? And how do our monarch’s never fail to disappoint? With precision With precision *The oldest clock tower in Paris
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TOUCH THE STARS The clouds are wrapped in the moonlight tonight like a mother protecting her child But if I gently unclasp these fingers so white Perhaps I could see in your heart… I’m gonna touch the stars I’m gonna make it happen Someday in my memoirs you’ll quote me that I wrote “I’m gonna make it happen” They think that I’m a fool I can hear them laughing but one day wait and see They’ll be toasting me We’ll be deafened by the clappin' I’m gonna study hard No you won’t catch me slacken' I’ll start a new career become an engineer So boy you best get cracking! Cause right now we’re so poor, we’ve not a can to crap in But if I may confess someday I’ll see you dressed in fine chiffon and satin And you can bet on my love You can bet on my love like a gift from above you just wait and see you can bet on my love you can bet on my love please don’t let on my love you’ve lost faith in me. cause you can bet on my love you can bet on my love please don’t wet on my love Soak yourself in my dreams We’ll sail away to mars and I’m not table tapping The universal laws have no apparent flaws we're gonna touch the stars we’re gonna touch the stars
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The Contest 00:43
THE CONTEST It says in Le Petit Journal that there’s a contest They need a new suggestion for the world’s fair! A monument to be seen for miles Some kind of statue that climbs the air Eiffel you can use your imagination your cunning skills of math and geometry You already proved you have the know-how when you helped out Frédéric Bartholi My dear wife won’t you please fetch me some paper Grab my favorite pen and you shall see it feels like more than my reputation is at stake here Like the eyes of world are all watching me
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MY NAME IS EIFFEL Well I’m Monsieur Eiffel and this here's my wife I’ve been building bridges now for half of my life If you took a a viaduct and point it towards the air It would make a grand tower for your little fair It’d make a grand tower for your Worlds fair! Well the name is Gustave Eiffel now don’t you forget it If you pick my project I know you won’t regret it Don’t want no reward don’t need no Croix de Guerre Just let me build this tower for your little fair let me build this tower for the world's fair How can he be so sure - you can trust me Though it may be haute couture - I know physics It seems little too obscure to fit - You don't know what you're saying You silly men don't you realize he's a genius I would trust him with my life Well I suppose that's something we should consider Why must i be so tall - 300 meters! What if it the tower fall - That won't happen It would surely crush us all to bits! Gentlemen I can assure that is an impossibility! Well my name is Gustave Eiffel yeah I’ll say it again I made Lady Liberty her skeleton It might not look like much now but give it a chance It’ll be the The Piece de Resistance for a-Mother France!
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YOU’VE TO SELECTED! You’ve been selected to build Eiffel You’ve been elected to erect Though quite experimental we’d like you to assemble a team of your best architects - sir a team of your best architects We have rejected all the others We have inspected your work We have reservations but mostly expectations Our fair will be so magnifique And your tower will be fantastique! We’ve been selected to build We’ve been elected to erect Though quite experimental they’d like us to assemble a team of our best architects - sir a team of your best architects We’re gonna build a tower we’re gonna build a tower touch the stars reprise
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WE THE UNDERSIGNED We the undersigned do hereby protest the building of your unsightly tower our city’s in peril and we simply won’t rest until you stop trying to deflower our Paris This odious column, this black smokestack, this ghastly dream that you suggest will be such a blight upon our city of light we hope that you’ll do what’s best (grant this request) for Paris Is this a Joke? Surely, you jest! This is a most fruitless fight! I don’t see how - I could to stop it right now With the end so clearly in site. You think that just because we’re engineers that we have no conception of art? If you will be patient, I will settle your fears. And gentlemen you must know my heart is in Paris The neighbors are all suing and the art world’s gasp it looks like whore just sitting on her ass How did this Eiffel clown ever make the cut? It’s a hideous funnel planted on its big fat butt. You people are all scoundrels naysayers and fools You’re reputations are tainted and marred but to settle all bets I’ll incur any debts - if tragedy should befall in your backyard
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Strike! 04:37
STRIKE! We wake up every morning drink a cup and head to town don’t see our wives again until the sun comes down The beer is always warm and the pot roast is ice cold I hope I’m not still working when I’m gray and old Walk out - we’re gonna walk out unless we can knock out some out some kind deal Walk out - We’re gonna walk out unless we can talk out just the way the we feel! Have a glass off wine and head to bed at ten Get up in the morning and we do it all again Don’t get us wrong sir we appreciate the work but I'm getting sick and tired of being treated like a jerk Strike! - We’re gonna strike cause we don’t abide with anything you say Strike - we’re gonna strike -cause we don’t like what you pay You’ve all been so great and of course I appreciate the burden of your task but the funds are all depleted and for you to plead for more is just too much to ask. It’s just to much to ask Higher - we’re getting higher and think that should require a few more francs So come on Eiffel - don’t stall or stifle Won’t stop till I’m full so come on let’s dance! As to the matter of just how high you climb to work There is no debate for it doesn’t matter if you fall from three flights or five you’ll meet the same grim fate Strike! - We’re gonna strike cause we don’t abide with anything you say Strike - we’re gonna strike -cause we don’t like what you pay! You men all agreed to the terms before we started but let me fix this snag I Promise 100 francs to everyman that stays with me until we hoist the flag until we fly our flag. Eiffel, you got yourself a deal!
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LEVEL THREE On level three things get kind of tight we wine and dine and dance all night so come with me, and you will see the view at preposterous heights First we’ll dine on escargot - that’s french for snails, in case you didn’t know We buy them fresh, that's the best way to eat cooked snails The waitresses appear with tankards of beer Be sure to please tip them well They serve crepe suzettes wearing swan bill corsets and sporting a racy marcel When the clock strikes at 10, they'll come round again it is quite possible you’ll forget where you are but you’ll have so much fun touching each other's tongues and smoking havana cigars Le Pétomane will sing with a blare His world famous anus is so debonaire it can drink red wine, so very refined you’ll wish you brought Papa and Mère La la la la la la so come with me, and you will see Such mystical marvelous sites the view at preposterous heights
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Well my name is Bridgette and although we’ve never meant, I felt compelled to write to you these words I keep thinking about you, but I don’t know what to do And this proposal may seem quite absurd If you’re wondering about me, I’m not a bit ugly I love to smell fresh air and sweet perfume I’m slender, fare of face and I like to wear black lace and fantasize about your secret room So if you dare to meet me, please say that you'll agree I’ll be wearing a pink gardenia flower Thitherward in gloam ‘neath the Trocadero dome I pray you’ll put thee under your power. I’d love to feel your great majestic tower
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UNDER THE TOWER I’ll meet you under the tower and we’ll go straight from there Everyone’s out of town so we have nothing to fear We’ll take the stairs. We’ll take our time the cold fresh air feels sublime instrumental of the first part look over there that’s the Cathedral of Charte and Paris square has so much great art I don’t understand why has he not kissed me? This handsome man I long for is haunting my dreams maybe it’s / It can’t be wrong to want someone I don’t believe he’s having fun MY MIND HAS CHANGED My dear I must confess this feels so strange but the clouds have cleared up my mind has changed so I fear I must bid you a sweet adieu Don’t bother calling me next time that you pass thru. OH BRIDGETTE What do you think your doing Get down now from that step! The fate that you’re pursuing will fill me regret There’s plenty of fish in the seine This doesn’t have to be the end Just think of this as in between you can love again! Oh Brigette it’s time live for today don’t get upset Sometimes things just happen this way Oh Brigette think all the good things you’ve found It’s our secret and such long long way down I FELL FOR YOU Perhaps there could have have been another way I know I lived the life of a fool but I guess that’s the price you pay When you decide to break the cardinal rule g7 So go back to your family go back to and start your life anew I know I could have any man but my love I fell for you Eiffel
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I FACED THE STORM I faced the storm as bravely as I could and made the best of every situation No matter what the cost we endured the frost and I ensured the word I gave was good In every gentleman’s life there comes a time when he must decide to fly or fumble though some will spit and scorn and curse the day you’re born and even implicate that I’d begrime My beautiful home our sweet mother France our city of light But just look at them now that it’s all done Every king and duke wants to shake my hand They wanted to castrate me but now they think it’s great see I guess it prove I’m no mad man. So let us drink a toast to history
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THE IRON KING Eiffel the iron king Eiffel the iron king He never messes up He always gets it done He makes a lot of money and he has a little fun Eiffel the iron king And Magritte will wear his ring He draws a simple plan and gives it to his men they elaborate upon it then they sell it back to him That’s right! he’s Eiffel He’ll fill the sky full of wondrous things So get an eyeful! Early every morning he walks into his office not a whole lot to say. Looks outside his window sipping' on his coffee and thinks ”How can I change the world today?” He handles every task with skill and style to spare you see je ne peux pas are not words in his vocabulary Eiffel the iron king Eiffel the iron king

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

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released December 1, 2016

Written, Performed and Produced by Tim(e) King for NASOALMO 2016

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