In the Beyond

[bnewman]

Near the beginning of A Fire Upon the Deep, Blueshell warns Pham of the dangers of the Transcend.  Why keep the oceanic imagery from the source song?  Because Blueshell is essentially a cyborg sea pen.

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken

listen to this song
 

/ G CG - DG / / C G D G / /

 

The seaweed is always greener

In somebody else's lake

You dream about going Up There

But that is a big mistake

 

Right here all the docks is buzzing

Up There is the great unknown

You listen to Blueshell, cousin

Stay here in the safer Zone!

 

/ C - G - / C D G - / C D Em A / C D G - /

 

In the Beyond!  In the Beyond!

You live like you wish

Even though you small fish

In very big pond

Up There you never know what you get

Right here we got news from all the Known Net

Godhood's a distraction

We got all the action

In the Beyond!

 

The Ones at the Top have reasons

That we can't begin to see

If they have a fishing season

They fishing for you and me

 

You go there, you stay forever

You not just go up and look

If it sound like great adventure

That just how they bait the hook!

 

In the Transcend!  In the Transcend!

You playing with fire

Touch a live wire

Come to bad end!

You don't know what a Power wants with you?

You can't even conceive of what It might do!

Beware of the danger

Things get much stranger

In the Transcend!

 

The galaxy in big trouble

Big monster, she make big waves

Whole systems reduced to rubble

Whole species reduced to slaves

 

Somebody not heed the warning

Whole galaxy pay the price

We still get up in the morning

You still listen my advice!

 

In the Beyond!  In the Beyond!

It isn't too late

Time you take your fate

Into your own frond

A hundred million worlds within your reach

Better you should live where life is a beach

Keeping it wet here

Surfing the Net here

Making a trade here

We got it made here

Not in the Slow Zone

Not the Oh No Zone

In the Beyond!