I'm really unhappy with the quality of the vocal track. It's a long song and there are a lot of opportunities to mess up. I suspect that this will be one of the songs that only attains quality by splicing multiple takes together.
This one is taking some creative licensing with the source material. Perhaps I need either a new verse or to alter a verse to explicitly state that the ship is blue. Because a blue ship (or other vehicle) with a "conductor" and a "fat controller" should be pretty easy to put together.
In my world, the reason the show has vehicles with child-like personalities is because they're operated by children's brains in jars. Why do you need children's brains in jars for a coal boiler? Simple: You don't. But you might need them to operate a futuristic reactor in a space ship so moving the scene to space is quite logical.
The album concept (repeated from my bio): This FAWM, I want to write songs for an art album I'm working on. Abstractly, it's an art album about copyright... in the guise of hymn filk. The premise is a lonely space traveler thinks about what might be in store for the colony ship when they get there, but due to copyright restrictions only music made before 1926 is available on-board. So, he combines the two.
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📔 song lyrics posted on 2015-02-25 @ 05:11am
Title: Shipping Containers
Date: 2015-02-25 @ 05:11am
(But maybe there will be orbital colonies, and someone will need to run cargo out to them.)
In our shipping containers you can find
many things that you might enjoy.
We pride ourselves on love that is blind
to the colour of your payment.
The Fat Controller has no home
he lives aboard our shining dome.
On our clean and shining bridge you can find
the ship's face and the conductor.
We call this our little ship Gordon Tom.
He can be cheeky but he's fine.
His brain is kept down a few floors
he's wired to the reactors.
Ships like ours need children's brains to go
we have some in jars for you, too.
We think he will be happy, quite so.
He likes to read books with kittens
His parents were properly paid.
His sister went to college, too.
The fat controller gives out specials for
little ships that follow through on
special tasks that he assigns and for
which he feels are really needed.
One time we took a whole scout troop
out where the brain extractors poop.
I hope that you can buy the model set.
If features real parts that can go.
The gift shop is located in the aft
near where the engine exhaust blows.
We think that you might like this toy
it is good for kids and monkeys.
If you find that you can not pay the fare
we can make arrangements that work.
Sometimes we need someone to take the mop
where Gordon Tom has been at work.
He often has no maintainers
other than shipping containers.
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