A Dueteronomic Descant
Then Caprice was led by the Dementor into the desert to be tempted by Azazel. After meandering forty days and forty nights, Caprice became lost in the wilderness.
Lo and behold, Azazel, the Demonic Spirit of the Desert Wilderness, sauntered up to Caprice and said, "If you are up for a little Gamboling, let us sing a Spirited Duet."
Caprice answered, "The Music Man does not live on high school productions alone, but on every Theater of the Muse."
Then Azazel and Caprice assumed their places upon a rocky ledge on high, overlooking the Blogosphere.
"If you are truly Caprice the Flying Goat," intoned Azazel, "let us soar with wings of song."
And so Caprice and Azazel crooned their impassioned duet, as it was written and recorded in streaming audio, with lyrics by Pat Humphries and Barsoom Tork Associates.
And lo the audience joined in and each sang whichever verses it pleased them to harmonize with, for as it is written, "It is our choices that reveal our true character, far more than our clever abilities."
[Click to start embedded MP3 audio of The Caprician Theme Song.]
Original Lyrics: Swimming To the Other Side
Copyright © 2001-2002 Pat Humphries
Sung by Lui Collins
Album: Leaving Fort Knox
Caprician Theme Song Swimming To the Other Side | Anti-Caprician Meme Song Slouching To the Darker Side |
Chorus: | Chorus: |
We are living 'neath the great Big Dipper | We are entangled with The Big Bamboozler |
We are washed by the very same rain | We are dashed by the very same rain |
We are swimming in the stream together | We are drowning in the stream together |
Some in power and some in pain | Some in power and some in pain |
We can worship this ground we walk on | We can defile this site we post on |
Cherishing the beings that we live beside | Crushing the beings that we view in snide |
Loving spirits will live forever | Troubled spirits will dwell forever |
We're all Swimming to the Other Side | We're all Slouching to the Darker Side |
I am alone and I am searching | I am alone and I am lurching |
Hungering for answers in my time | Pumping Adrenalin in my grime |
I am balanced at the brink of wisdom | I am balanced at the brink of failure |
I'm impatient to receive a sign | I'm impatient to commit a slime |
I move forward with my senses open | I reel backward with my senses gobsmacked |
Imperfection it be my crime | Indignation it be my crime |
In humility I will listen, | In arrogance I will blather, |
We're all Swimming to the Other Side | We're all Slouching to the Darker Side |
Chorus | Chorus |
On this journey through thoughts and feelings | On this travail through myths and passions |
Binding intuition my head, my heart | Blind to intuition, my head, it hurts |
I am gathering the tools together | I am gathering the phools together |
I'm preparing to do my part | I'm conspiring to play my part |
All of those who have come before me | All of those who have succumbed before me |
Band together to be my guide | Band together to be my guide |
Loving lessons that I will follow | Goading lessons that I will follow |
We're all Swimming to the Other Side | We're all Slouching to the Darker Side |
Chorus | Chorus |
When we get there we'll discover | When we get there we'll discover |
All of the gifts we've been given to share | All of the gibes we've been given to snerk |
Have been with us since life's beginning and | Have been with us since life's beginning and |
We never noticed they were there | We never noticed we were jerks |
We can balance at the brink of wisdom | We can totter at the brink of ruin |
Never recognizing that we've arrived | Never realizing how far we've dived |
Loving spirits will live together | Troubled spirits will dwell together |
We're all Swimming to the Other Side | We're all Slouching to the Darker Side |
Chorus | Chorus |