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A Perfect Day For Flight

from Origins by M-Opus

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Cape Canaveral Spaceport, Florida - a couple of hours later. Miller and Violet have taken a Pacific Crosser to the Spaceport.

Narrator sings:
Magnetic fields comb Cape Canaveral, horizon shimmers in the air.
Departure windows light the timeline.
A perfect day for flight ahead.

We all are the lucky ones, we follow tomorrow's sun,
Imagine the future and we hold it in our hands.
Another colony every day, another shuttle is on its way,
We'll be ready to launch another dream, onto new lands.

Miller sings:
Violet takes me to Canaveral. She says, she’s got a problem and no-one else can help.

Violet speaks:
“Drink up your coffee Miller, I need you sober”.

Miller speaks:
“Yes, Mammy.”

Miller sings:
There’s me thinking, I had been forgotten.
Turns out they bugged a bio trace on me, just after the accident.

Narrator sings:
We all are the lucky ones, technology's chosen ones,
This is the era of the pioneering man.
Mother Earth in a window frame, every passenger free from pain.
This is the Space Port, you can sleep until you land.

Spaceport Security Officer, spoken:
“Welcome to Canaveral Space Port. Please face the eye scanner.
Identification succeeded: Vicefield, Dr. Violet, Level 4 clearance. Identification succeeded: McKee, Miller. Please proceed to Terminal 5 Observation Room, there’s a video comm message waiting for you there.”

Miller sings:
Well Violet, my dear, you’ve got what you want: I’m sobering up and sick as a dog.
Can you give me some details, an Alka Seltzer and a Bloody Mary?

Violet sings:
I can’t breathe a word, it’s out of my hands, but that’s ok, I’m sure you’ve figured out.

Miller sings:
(To himself) Just don’t know what she’s feeling, behind those New York eyes.

At the security hub, the doors slide open.
We are expected; we’re ushered inside, by a Space Port Official.

He leads us to an observation deck, with a,
Beautiful view through impervious glass of Cape Canaveral
And hundreds of ships, some in take-off or landing.
Some hold position in suspended silence.
Like bowler-hat men in Magritte's old paintings...

Miller’s mind wanders…
Internal Voice:
...Magritte, born 21 Nov 1898, Regina Suicide, Colubrid Snakes, from Coluber, Oligocene epoch, extinction event, grande coupure, Impact winter, metallic objects not stone, microwave sparking, smaller than radio waves, MRI human body, autopsy…

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from Origins, released May 1, 2020

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M-Opus Dublin, Ireland

M-Opus are a progressive rock band from Ireland.
(Jonathan Casey, Mark Grist, PJ O'Connell, Colin Sullivan, James Dunne).
They are a real band, but have a fictional history.
They record their albums today, but the albums have release dates in the past, featuring the sounds of music at that time.
"At The Mercy Of Manannán" (1972), "ORIGINS" (1978) and "1975 Triptych" (1975). ... more

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