The citizens collect their interests into tiny parcels
To be marked up and sold to the highest bidder
Oh they plot and plan a festival
to gather together once each year
and they place all their treasures in a cannonball
to be sent far away from here
The people of Trilessy congregate in the town square
first of all, sings the chairman in his fancy fancy chair
We'd like to thank you, dear citizens
for joining in the festival fair
you are people from wide who join us every year
we don't know where these precious commodities will land
It doesn't seem that we should care at all
They may burn up in a star far away from us
or land on a planet named Brontitall (O yeh)
It's from "Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy,"
gotta be a top ten movie
The bird people native to the planet
might not appreciate our fine wines and bread,
but in the time it takes our package to reach them
you see we'll all be dead.
It's not sad it's just the way it goes,
to be alone full of cosmic horror
but on this planet the least we can do
is share a little part of our story
On that note begin the countdown
Begin the countdown
alright I said begin the countdown
...we gotta begin this countdown
The people of Trilessy look to the sky
their package begins to soar away
their treasures of art an science
begin their journey,
But that day something went horribly wrong,
the ritual cannon began to hum
as their package shot away from them
a malfunction destroyed their sacred gun
The explosion killed the chairman instantly
and it killed every person in that town.
The cannonball destroyed its creators.
It was gone and it left them to drown,
but the chairman was correct
for when the cannonball arrived
in a distant corner of the galaxy
O the people of Trilessy would no longer be alive
Fuzzy Austin trio follow up their first album in 20 years, released in Spring 2015, with a stomping new EP of noisy rock & roll. Bandcamp New & Notable Feb 26, 2016