(Auz wears a vest over a long-sleeve pleated shirt, fedora, sandals)
Bittersweet Stuff, sometimes Piano/Symphonic; Evanescence, etc.
- “7 Years” by Lukas Graham (cover by Jasmine Thompson) –sung by our Josie ICV
- “Hungover” by Ke$ha –sung by our Charlize ICV, her platinum-blonde hair styled in slightly curly pigtails like the protagonist in Sucker Punch
- “The Longer I Run” by Peter Bradley Adams –duet between Auz and our Josie ICV, holding hands together as we stand and sway around the mic stand between us
(after “I’ve gone away to save my soul”, when we get to the lyric “who’s hand I’m in?”, I reach up and touch her cheek, and she then does that to mine) - “Live Again” by Sevendust —Jacqueline “Dreamy” joins us for this one; another hot duet with her!
- “How You Remind Me” by Nickelback
- “Too Bad” by Nickelback
- “Paint It Black (cover)” by Ciara –sung by Dinah and Jacqueline taking turns; every other lyric/sentence/line
- “Asleep” (“sing me to sleep”) by Emily Browning –Sucker Punch OST -sung by our Dreamy… as she gets ready for bed, sits down on bed, lies down, Auz sits down on her bedside, tucks a strand of her hair back behind her ear, leans down and kisses her forehead, holds a book as if reading her bedtime stories, then she slowly closes her eyes at the end of the song, and he tucks her in, then turns off the light as her last line fades to silence, and all the ICVs in the darkening stage close their colorful eyes
- “Nightingale” by Demi Lovato
- “Your Guardian Angel” by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- “Morphine” by Lights –sung by our Xenia
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“7 Years” by Lukas Graham (cover by Jasmine Thompson) –sung by our Josie ICV
- Nina, naked, her hair in a long thick ponytail braid, plays the piano for this one
Josie holds the mic/stand, barefoot, sundress cut in an arch showing her whole ‘Y’ and bellybutton, her hair down and straight, slowly changing color through all the dark browns and dark blues
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“Hungover” by Ke$ha –sung by our Charlize ICV, her platinum-blonde hair styled in slightly curly pigtails like the protagonist in Sucker Punch
- Meagan on drums
- Kim on clapping
- Amber ICV1 on sfx machine
- Rachael on electronic keyboard
overhead shows clips of pre-Inisfree Outlands party aftermath trash/dimness, and afterparties, and being back home the next day, then clips showing sexy girls sitting on their bed edges, pouting, teary-eyed, thinking about how it didn’t turn out the loving polyamorous way they wanted
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“The Longer I Run” by Peter Bradley Adams –duet between Auz and our Josie ICV, holding hands together as we stand and sway around the mic stand between us
- Josie is in the customary Inisfreean sundress cut in an arch to show her entire ‘Y’ and bellybutton, and she is barefoot, her hair in a long straight side ponytail over her left shoulder
- overhead shows a top-down car driving through a Vermont or Utah Autumn winding asphalt road, normal speed, looks a bit slowed down
- then clips of the Montana creeks/rivers flowing with mild rapids boulders
- then clips of empty porch swings swaying in the slight breeze, and log-cabin lanterns flickering
- then “far-off land” clips of expeditions that were lonely
- as the female vocals start mid-song, the two start by facing the audience, then she looks to him for a moment, then he looks to her, then they look at each other a long while, then back down at their feet during the instrumental part that follows
- “tell my brother, please, not to look for me” shows clips and pics from the fleet
- “gone away for to save my soul” shows Auz driving off into the sunset, drone/ICV/satellite footage
- (after “I’ve gone away to save my soul”, when we get to the lyric “who’s hand I’m in?”, I reach up and touch her cheek, and she then does that to mine)
- then Josie joins in again, this time looking up and straight to him, and they turn to face each other, standing facing each other, stepping in a bit closer, looking at each other’s eyes dreamily as their fingertips start to find and caress each other’s
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“Live Again” by Sevendust –Jacqueline joins us for this one; another hot duet with her!
overhead shows clips of people leaving abusive relationships, abusive churches, abusive courts, abusive schools, abusive hospitals, abusive military units, abusive veteran events, abusive communities, abusive countries
- Inna on the drums
- Olga on bass guitar
- Vanessa on electric guitar
- Xenia on keyboard
- all VRII girls are in dark-blue fishnet cut to show their tits and Y-s
- each has her hair in a different color of medium to dark blue
when it is each girl’s part/turn/solo, her eyes flash white during loud notes, then sky-blue until her part is over, and then her eyes go back to deep/hypnotic blue while the others have their turn; instrument focuses/highlights
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“How You Remind Me” by Nickelback
“never made it as a wise man” show clips of Auz having to leave different universities
“couldn’t cut it as a poor man stealin’ ” show clips of Auz homeless
“to the bottom of every bottle” show clips of Auz during the one or two years when he drank
- Kim on drums
- Meagan on electric guitar
- Charlize on bass guitar
- Olga on keyboard
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“Too Bad” by Nickelback
- “keep clothing on our backs” show Auz accepting donated clothes multiple times that didn’t even fit
- “you left without saying goodbye” show the people who ghosted
- “you call the house from time to time” show all the phone harassment from repo and other scum
- “but you weren’t there right when I needed you the most” show clips of all the veteran organizations refusing to help, not even trying to understand
- “we made it out” show Auz returning from horrible trips/expeditions/missions, just hanging his head under the shower water, then lying on the floor while staring up at the ceiling in a blank room totally unfurnished
- “and now I scream about it” show Auz screaming at the sky, causing/summoning shooting stars overhead
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“Paint It Black (cover)” by Ciara –sung by Dinah and Jacqueline taking turns; every other lyric/sentence/line
- “red door, I want it painted black” show clip of door being deleted… or turning into a Space/Abyss portal
- “no colors anymore” show view of teleportation causing view to fade to gray
- “turn my head until my darkness goes” show Auz closing his eyes and turning away from all the horrible trashy cities/people he encountered around the world
- “I see a night of colors” high view over megacities
- “people turn their heads and quickly look away” show clips of all the cowards who looked away from Auz
- “maybe then I’ll fade away” shows ICVs and ships teleporting out of view in an instant, leaving only the mist/fog their repulsines attracted/generated
- “sun blotted out of the sky” show IC WS fleets moving into position in orbit to cause an eclipse and darkness/black/shadow spreading over the entire world, causing a global night
- “until my darkness goes” final line of song, show all the scummy humans freezing in darkness, dying, disappearing off the Map Room‘s sphere wall hologram-based display… and then the WSs leave their position, the ‘darkness goes/going’ as the sunlight once again hits the purged world
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“Asleep” (“sing me to sleep”) by Emily Browning –Sucker Punch OST -sung by our Dreamy… as she gets ready for bed, sits down on bed, lies down, Auz sits down on her bedside, tucks a strand of her hair back behind her ear, leans down and kisses her forehead, holds a book as if reading her bedtime stories, then she slowly closes her eyes at the end of the song, and he tucks her in, then turns off the light as her last line fades to silence, and all the ICVs in the darkening stage close their colorful eyes
- instrumental slow fade-in: overhead shows clips of Dreamy trying drugs and getting pale, passing out, O.D., etc.
- “sing me to sleep” shows clips of Dreamy mouthing this out as she cries in an alleyway at night, alone, using a box and a trash bag to keep warm
- “don’t try to wake me in the morning, ’cause I will be gone” shows an ICV/Angel coming down over her before dawn, scooping her up, and flying/teleporting her away to Inisfree, leaving only the bag and box to slide down and flatten over where her body used to be asleep on the alley concrete against the dirty brick wall
- cradled in Auz’s arms as they nursed her back to health in Inisfree’s hospital
- clips of people back in the Outlands who wondered where she went, if she overdosed, crying as they hold her framed picture/s
- “there is another world… there is a better world” shows Inisfree moving away, as the camera/view zooms out, until it is barely in view through the whiteout haze/fog of the perimeter orb
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“Nightingale” by Demi Lovato
- no overhead clips; dark screen the whole time, spotlight/focus on the piano player at first
- Meagan ICV sings this one while playing the piano
- “you could be, my sanity” is when another ICV matches/harmonizes/duets with her –and a 2nd spotlight turns on, showing the 2nd ICV as she starts to sing
- verse by verse, one more ICV joins her, until several are singing/harmonizing together
- “I don’t know what I’d do without you” when the music picks up ~2/3 through the song, more lights are added, get colorful, move up from the stage, while the spotlights stay on the group of singers
- end of song when backup-choir starts, that is when the whole VRII band sings together
- then when the loud near-end part is over, all the lights go off except for the one over Meagan, until she finishes playing the piano at the very end, and then her light, too, …fades off
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“Your Guardian Angel” by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
- Kim and Josie on guitars; acoustic and bass
- Olga on cello
- Anastasia harmonizes/duets with Auz
- Nina on drums
“I will never let you fall” clips of Ambi being caught as she falls over after long days at work, and her husband holding her facing him, both on their sides in bed in their cabin, him caressing the side and back of her head, kissing her forehead, and their chests visible rising and falling as they begin to breathe and shared-breath together, falling asleep like that, the view them looking up through their ceiling disappearing to show the stars time-lapse moving in lines/wheel/rotation
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“Morphine” by Lights –sung by our Xenia
- a nice, sweet, girly, somewhat more upbeat final/end-song for this show
- Graciella sings this one
- Inna on keyboard
- Rachael on cello
- Nyria and Charlize snapping fingers to the beat after 1st third ends
“we never leave the room” shows clips of petite witch-to-be Ashton having one-on-one dates and overnights, cozy and tender with Auz
“we end up on the floor” pausing while Auz is over and in her, looking up at his face and eyes, marveling at him, connected/ing, lovingly feeling his jawline and pecs and abs and triceps… before they resume slow deep thrusting/rocking together, still on her floor in the dim/dark room
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