I Go Like the Shadows

[bnewman]

A song for Mr. Morden — like the symbol of the raven in "I Go Like the Raven", the Shadows (or their ships) screaming across the "dark and dervish sky" herald a wily trickster with a mysterious past and unknown powers.

Dave & Tracy's original song is as notable for its virtuosic instrumental breaks as for its haunting lyrics, and this new recording of my parody finally features a most appropriate theme in that role.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "I Go Like the Raven" by Dave Carter

and featuring the main title theme from Babylon 5 by Christopher Franke

listen to this song

 

/ Am - / G - / Am G / - Am - /

 

Out on the Rim we found us a planet

Don't know what happened to the race that ran it

But something went wrong when we tried to scan it

Things were looking bad, oh

 

We didn't know what we had awakened,

But we soon found out there was no escapin'

Into their service we were taken

I go like the Shadows

 

/ Dm CG / C -E / 1st / G Am - /

 

The future must be forged in pain

War and chaos, loss and gain

Over the swirling hyperlanes

I go like the Shadows

 

/ Am - / G - / F - / E - - - /

 

-BREAK-

 

We arrived on a standard vector

Nothing showed up on our detector

In fact we found the entire sector

Silent as a tomb

 

But when we scanned for signs of people

That world woke up in a mad upheaval

Calling every kind of evil

Home to Z'Ha'Dum

 

The future must be forged in pain...

 

-BREAK-

 

Once they strode the stars like giants

Now once again their ships are flyin'

Shrieking out their mournful cry

From all the worlds they haunt

 

I'm with them, I'm in their protection

All that I do is at their direction

I can only ask one question

What is it you want?

 

The future must be forged in pain...

 

/ " / " / " / " / F - / G - / Am - - - /

 

-BREAK-