A. We Rise Each Day (Subterfuge)

We Rise Each Day (originally Subterfuge)

So, we rise each day in the morning

to the tune of the same old song.

And all the people put on their pretty faces

to become part of the throng.

Then you put on your shell that your supposed to be

and forget what you really are.

Then we enter the glut of the human void

in the heat of the Central Star.

Our minds all melt together

into one big robot mind.

So we can pass away the hours

now that we're deaf and dumb and blind.

And the day fades away into darkness

but the end never comes to soon.

And the world turns to dust as you shed your crust

in the mist of the pale blue moon.

That's when I sneak out into the still of night

While the whole worlds fast asleep.

I'm just a wondering what it's all about

so I search for what I seek.

I make my way toward the hilltop

and that outpost hideaway,

as I think about the mass distress

that protrudes on every day.

I arrive at the 'Shroud of the Silent'

where they're hung on a different tune.

And they dream about tomorrow

In the mist of the pale blue moon...

...in the mist of the pale blue moon.

[Scene: The scenery is sleek and futuristic, but dark and foreboding.  At first glance, the nighttime city-scape could well be from earth of the future or perhaps from another more alien place.  A pale blueish moon hangs in the sky.]

The protagonist of 'All Systems Go' is Dax, who finds himself living at the whims of an uncaring yet controlling society. Dax becomes so despondent about the oppressive system within which he abides, that he is willing to break one of the sacred laws - he goes outside at night.

Aside from the blatant repression imposed by the all controlling 'SOL' organization, he feels that he lives in a world where there is a lack of meaning, or lack of purpose.  No sense of connectivity. A coldness - perhaps driven by mutual paranoia - among every day people.

So when he leaves his small assigned sleeping domain, he timidly meanders through a moonlit forested region. He searches for a small group of rebels. It is rumored that these desperate souls gather in a valley secluded by a ring of hilltops - on the night of each full moon. 

[See song lyrics here]

Words and Music by David Denton

All Instruments and vocals performed by David Denton

Recorded and Produced by David Denton