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Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
It's a thought, no? Anyone have any ideas for lyrics?
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
I am the very model of a child leader prodigy.
I've information relevant to fighting well in zero-G.
I know the the ways of Mazer and teach them to my jeesh members,
from Bean to Soup to Crazy Tom (whom nobody remembers).
 
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
 
*cringes*

At both posts.

--Mel
 
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
I try to avoid most musicals. And I'd like to see a film interpretation of Ender's Game. So lets avoid an Ender's Game musical.
 
Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :
 
and he himself hath said it
and it's strongly to his credit
He was born by requisition
He was boo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-orn by requistion.

Okay, now you may cringe.
 
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
 
With apologies to the Sebastian and "Kiss the Girl"

There, you see it
There across the Battle room
You think it is in front of you
But that's not gonna help you

Got to try
Reorient your mind
Until the Gate is Down

Yes, you want it
Gonna try to take their gate
Possible they want yours, too
There is one way to stop them

You've got to see
The battle room so the
Enemy's Gate is down

[Sing with me now]

Sha la la la la la, my oh my
Don't make it left or right
We want to win this fight

Sha la la la la la, in your mind
Just turn the room around
Until the gate is down
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
When you're a third
You're a third all the way
From your first monitor
'til they take you away!

When you're a third
and you're brother is whack;
you're always in danger
until your parents get back.

You're always alone!
You're so disconnected.
You're always on your own
and you're feelin' rejected!

A third feels no sorrow
when Graffe says that you'll
be launching tomorrow
up to battle school.

When you're a third,
you stay a third!
 
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
Dagonee - that's awful!

*ROFL*
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
There's a double rationale here: have fun posting horrible forced rhymes, and make sure this musical is never, ever, made. [Big Grin]
 
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
 
It's all well and good until we get the bugger can can line.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Don't Speak for me Andrew Wiggin...
 
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
 
There, out in the darkness
The hive queen is calling
She's creating Jane
She's creating Jane
In the computer
To talk to a boy
In the Giant's Cup game
In the Giant's Cup game

He knows the ways of the game
She knows the ways of the hive
If she wants to give buggers' salvation
She'll bridge to his mind
And if she falls
As that giant fell
The eggs!
The hive!

Jane
In the giant game
Filling his desktop
With weirdness and strange
Things from his concious
Making him see
How to rebuild the hive
How to rebuild the hive

Jane knew her place in the game
She knows her place in the nets
She'll earn the boy Wiggin
Returns and returns
On investments and bets
So when he lands, and Speaks for the Dead,
He'll speak with Jane!

And so it has been and so it is written
In the Hive Queen And Hegdemon
That those who slaughter and those who slay
Must regret they won

Let me find a planet
That I may populate it
That she may reign
I will never rest
Till then
This I swear
This I swear by my Jane!
 
Posted by tmservo (Member # 8552) on :
 
Speaker of the Dead could make a pretty good Opera [Smile]
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Piggies, just killed a man...
 
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
 
they chopped him up real fine
made geometrical designs

Thought they'd turn him to a tree
Why'd he ever learn xenobiology?
 
Posted by JemmyGrove (Member # 6707) on :
 
[ROFL]

Dag, those are priceless!!
 
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
That deserves an LOL! [ROFL]
 
Posted by archon (Member # 8008) on :
 
Been spendin' most our lives livin' in Strategos-paradise.
 
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
 
Let's try some bad rhymes and rhythmlessness to Rocky Horror.

How'd you do?--I
See you've met my
Faithful right-hand man
He's just a bit relieved
'Cause when you knocked
He thought you were the Salaman(der).
Don't get strung out
By the speed I think
Don't judge a genius by his height
I may not be much of a fighter
Out in the halls
But in battle I'm one helluva captain.
I'm just a smart commander
From North Carolina
 
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
 
mimimimi... ahem

Look down! Look down!
Is your shooting arm straight?
Look down! Look down!
And there you'll see the gaaaaaate.
 
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
 
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say our goodbyes....
Off he fliiiiiies, since they see his worth.
A third child born onto Mother Earth
On this night when we justify the birth
In that little town of Greensboro
We raised our mas-
-ter of his class
La Vie Troisieme
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
It's astounding, trips are fleeting.
Time shift takes its toll.
But sit and wait, not for very much longer.
I've got to get this ship home.

I remember doing the Park Shift
In Interstellar Space
With no one to talk to and no ansible calling
Let's do the Park Shift again...
Let's do the Park Shift again!

It's just a flip of a switch
And then the key on the right.
You strap yourself to the seat
You bring your speed to light.
But it's boredom that really drives you insane.
Let's do the Park Shift again.
 
Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :
 
You know, I'd put up a version of Defying Gravity from Wicked, but I doubt there'd be much to change.
 
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
 
Dag your rendition of The Jet Song (or The Third Song) was great.
 
Posted by Lucky_Sean (Member # 6223) on :
 
ok thats it why aren't we illegally writing a musical now?
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
And now, Ender is gone.
And so I face the culmination
of all my plans, of all my work,
my essays and my manipulation.

I've lived my teens in secret
and posted on the information superhighway
and now, very soon now,
I'll conquer my way!

Friends, I've had a few.
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I wanted to do
And never looked for my redemption.

I planned each subterfuge,
each threat, and every parlay
and now, very soon now,
I'll conquer my way!

Yes there were times I said to Val,
"To win, I don't know if I shall."
But through it all, when I wasn't sure
I'd think it through and write some more.
I'm just a kid so I'll stay hid,
And conquer my way.
 
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
 
Dag, you should ask Mr. Card if you could indeed write a musical. Though perhaps, it should be a rock opera. It could be performed by some awesome, unknown band to jumpstart their career.
 
Posted by andi330 (Member # 8572) on :
 
This thread is awesome.
 
Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :
 
Seriously, would it be in violation of some contract if for a RHPS preshow game we did an Enderverse version? cuz that would rock my geeky socks off.
 
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
 
I say.

Can't remember when I laughed this hard.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Legally, you'd need some advice. Parody is considered fair use, but the bounds of parody are fuzzy.

Ethically, I think you should ask Mr. Card. His permission would obviate the need for legal advice on the Ender side.

I'm not sure what you'd need to do with the RHPS side. I know it's usually performed in theaters, and this doesn't seem very different. Probably you'd still need legal advice.
 
Posted by rniss (Member # 8704) on :
 
http://quizilla.com/users/Laenan/quizzes/In%20which%20army%20should%20you%20be%3F%20Ender's%20game%20quiz/

Try this link. It's a quizz: In which army should you be?

It's cool and you will surely enjoy it!

Don't forget to rate!
 
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
 
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

NO NO NO NO NO!

NYET! NIEN! NON! IYE! NO! BU! NO MUSICAL OF ENDERS GAME EVER EVER EVER EVER EVVVVVVER!
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
I could make all kinds of tactics
Using twine and guns of plastic
Inside the battle room.
And my guys they would be whooping
While in zero-G we’re looping
If I only had a toon.

I’d out-maneuver every army
Without acting smug or smarmy.
In battle they would swoon.
Due to my sowing of confusion
They all would do some losin’
If I only had a toon.

Oh I could make them all
Say we’re glad we’re led by Bean,
And convince all the martial preteens
That tracking losses is obscene

I’d be more than Ender’s shadow,
We’d work together, although
My smarts he’s not been shewn.
We would fight the bugger menace
With the product of our genius
If I only had a toon.
 
Posted by Lucky_Sean (Member # 6223) on :
 
^^^^

That is awesome I nee to think of one now [Frown]
 
Posted by starLisa (Member # 8384) on :
 
Here's a story
Of a kid named Ender
Who had one psychotic brother and a sis

He was sent to
Learn battle tactics
That weren't as good as his

It's a story
Of a little genius
Who was smaller than the rest on Ender's team

But his value
Surpassed his stature
Because he used his Bean

When our fleet at long last reached the Bugger homeworld
All our hopes were based on lying to pre-teens
It was too late to call the Doctor
'Cause the Bugger world was blown to smithereens

That's Ender's Game
But Ender's fame
Would be turned into Xenocidal shame
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
*clap*
 
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
 
I've never had a better reason then this to learn how to hack...
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
If you're not enjoying it, there's a couple thousand more threads you could be looking at instead.
 
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
 
I'm teasing. Like C'mon, I know there are several more thousand threads to go to, so I feel like teasing someone.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
That was teasing back, BB.
 
Posted by Orincoro (Member # 8854) on :
 
BUMP- Somebody linked this today, and I'm bringing it back. More later!
 
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
 
Long ago,
after the war had ended,
when folks still knew my name,
and everyone loved me,

I met the Bug-
ger Queen and made a promise,
she only had to wait
'till I found where she could be.

Lately although I'm feeling guilty and deep
the promise I made has grown impossible to keep,
and so, I wonder what to say,
to make it up some other way?

Maybe I
could tell the world their story,
and how I see myself
as ruining it all.

(Here they come,
the spoilers in this filk song.
Please stop reading now,
or don't complain at all.)
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Sadly I realized
it wasn't a game.
And sadder than that, I knew
that I have all the blame,
and though
they did attack us first
the things I did were so much worse.

It's all very well to say,
"you fool, you couldn't know that."
I could have chosen
no violence whatsoever.

I could Speak
about the dead bugs' story,
tell the world their tale
and then vilify mine.

I don't see
a reason not to do it.
Then we could all be friends
further down the line.

And if the Hegemon should make me Speak him,
Oh I wouldn't hesitate, although the story's grim--
That's right!
I'd do it all for free.
Because the Xenocide is me.

The speaker for the dead is me.

[ April 16, 2006, 03:08 AM: Message edited by: Icarus ]
 
Posted by Monoxcide (Member # 9348) on :
 
Being a fan of the enders game series, and musicals, I decided to write a quick song to the music of Zoot Suit Riot named Battle Room Riot.

Who's that with they're gun between thier knees
Its two soldiers in Ender's jeesh
Frozen kids and swinging hands
Who's your commander? Yes I am

Bonzo tried to play now, but can't change formations fast enough
Now you parents know, where your children go for fun

Battle Room riot. If your not frozen throw your arms up and cheer
Battle Room riot. Unfreeze us now because its cold in here

A whipped up jitterbuggin' buggered eyed man
A stray kid frontin' up an eight-piece band
Beat on me Bonzo and you'll get my hand
In your face hot water ran

You got me in a Battle School
and I just want you to send me down
Now you teachers know
Where I've been dying to go

Battle Room riot. If your not frozen throw your arms up and cheer
Battle Room riot. Unfreeze us now because its cold in here
 
Posted by human_2.0 (Member # 6006) on :
 
I posted this in Orincoro's other thread, but I thought it would be good to post it here too.

What about this style of music.
 
Posted by BlueBambue (Member # 8656) on :
 
to a song from "my fair lady"

Just you wait Peter Wiggin, just you wait
You’ll be sorry but your tears will be too late
You’ll be gone, and I’ll be leader
Will I help you? Don’t be funny
Just you wait Peter Wiggin, just you wait

Ooooh, Peter Wiggin
Just you wait until we’re fighting in a war
Ooooh, Peter Wiggin
And your army cannot fight any more
I won’t call for 911
I’ll just stay and watch the fun!
O, ho, ho, Peter Wiggin
O, ho, ho, Peter Wiggin
Just, you, wait.

One day I’ll have power,
I’ll be the guy who’s supreme
Kill those who complain
With my own laser beam.
Everyday all the people
Will say “Achilles is so great
I want his face on everything
(like pillows and plates)
Next week on the twenty-first of June
Achille will be the new name of the moon.
All the people will know your name
For all time to come
And whatever you wished and want
Will gladly be done”
Thanks a lot, son, says I, in a voice cold as lead
One thing I want is Peter Wiggin dead.

Sure, say they all with a shout
Guards come and bring the villain out!
Then I’ll march you Petter Wiggin to the wall
And in fear you’ll stumble and fall
And I in my new crown
Will shoot you down-down-down
O, ho, ho, Peter Wiggin
O, ho, ho, Peter Wiggin
Just
You
Wait
 
Posted by johnsonweed (Member # 8114) on :
 
He will,
He will,
BEAT YOU!
 
Posted by MightyCow (Member # 9253) on :
 
Too Much Buggers on their Mind

My mind is clearer now
At last
All too well
I can see
Where we all
Soon will be
If you strip away
The myth
From the boy
You will see
Where we all
Soon will be

Ender!
You've still don't believe
The things they say of you
You really don't believe
This game is really true

And all the good you've done
Will soon be swept away
The game's begun to matter more
Than the things they say

Listen Ender I don't like what I see.
All I ask is that you listen to me.
And remember, I've been your right hand man all along.

Oh you've caught their world on fire,
And soon you'll be their new messiah,
But they'll kill us if it turns out wrong!

I remember this war room when we came,
No talk of xenocide, we called it a game!
And believe me, my admiration for you hasn't died.
But every word you say, they'll twist around some other way.
To get away you'll have to fly.

Greensboro's most famous son
should have stayed a great unknown,
like Locke and Demosthenes,
he would have made good.
Rhetoric and social jests
would have suited Ender best
He'd have caused no bugger harm,
No one alarm

Listen Ender don't you care for our race?
Don't you see that we must blow up their place?
We are terrorized
Have you forgotten how out gunned we are?
I am frightened by their hive
Don't think that we'll come out alive
And they'll crush if we don't go far
If we don't, go too far!

Listen Ender to the warning I give
Please remember that I want us to live
But it's sad to see our chances weakening with ev'ry hour
All your followers are blind
Too much buggers on their minds
It was beautiful, but now it's sour
Yes it's all gone sour
Ah --- ah ah ah --- ah
God Ender, it's all gone sour.


* Wow. Ender Wiggin Superstar would be so easy to write. [Wink]
 
Posted by Julia (Member # 9244) on :
 
For all those hard-core Incubus fans out there:

PARDON ME
A decade ago, I never thought I would be a Xenocide on the verge of serious depression. Woe is me!
But I guess that it comes with the territory of blowing up a species, completely innocent, to smithereens.

But I need you to hear, I need you to see
that I had had all I could take, and exploding them was an inevitable possibility, for me.

So pardon me for when I burst the buggers into flames!
I had enough of battle school, and the teacher's mindless games!
So pardon me while I fly, and rise above earth's flames.
Pardon me, pardon me! I'll never be the same.

Not 2 days ago, I was having a look in a book and I saw a guy pressured down to his knees.
I said, "I can relate", cause lately I've been thinking of my heartless sin
as a welcomed vacation from the burdens of the planet earth,
like gravity, hypocrisy, and the perils of being in 3-D.
I just think so much differently.

So pardon me for when I burst the buggers into flames!
I had enough of battle school, and the teacher's mindless games!
So pardon me while I fly, and rise above earth's flames.
Pardon me, pardon me! I'll never be the same.
 
Posted by Jaiden (Member # 2099) on :
 
These are horrible. Yet so funny [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Julia (Member # 9244) on :
 
For all those extreme serious total mega hard-core Incubus fans out there. (Like me. It is THE greatest band):

REDEFINE
Imagine your brain as a military machine, yeah,
now think of your body as the tool for a killer's deed.
Fuse the two; KAPOW! What are you now?
You're the human little doctor! Won't you please go kill the Queen?
It's in your nature, you can fight your violent-self all you like,
no matter what us teachers tell you kids is good and right,
So kill, and save this 3rd rock from the sun,
by burning myriads of buggers
With our cool oversized gun! Go!

Ender:
But I'm sick of living in black and white!
My mind is tired, and I'm uptight.
So sick of ruining myself to fit your definition!

Teachers:
Picture the scene, where whatever you loved
would, in the blink of an eye,
fall apart and become all lost and dead.
You'd be sure, boy, that every life gone
reflected your selfish life loved,
and the plan to save that you hated.
So, must we demonstrate the need to get this straight?
We've painted a picture, now we're drowning in paint.
So lets figure out what beating Bugs is about
Before the Hive Queen we hated
chews us up and spits us out!

Ender:
I'm sick of living in black and white!
My brain is dry, and I'm uptight
I can't keep ruining myself to fit your definition.
Redefine
 
Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :
 
Best freakin' thread ever!!!
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
A long, long time ago
I can still remember
How my enemies could never best me.
And I knew if I watched the vids,
I'd conquor armies with my kids,
And, maybe, they'd no longer test me.
But the showers made me shiver,
With every blow that I'd deliver.
Bonzo tried to kill me,
But died and no one told me.
I can't remember if I cried
When I went to earth to try to hide,
But my duty touched me deep inside
The day my childhood died.

So bye, bye my old school in the sky,
Left the shuttle in a muddle
With no one on whom to rely.
And I learned my skills from that Mazer guy,
Thinkin', "If I don't my sister Val will die."
"If I don't my sister Val will die."

Now for 3 months I was on my own,
As my skills I began to hone,
No one but Mazer to see.
'Til one day I heard Soup and Bean,
Petra, Crazy Tom, and even Dean:
They'd restored my jeesh to me.
So we buckled down and began to train,
Despite lack of sleep and gnawing pain.
So many wins were scored -
No losses could we afford.
But I began to really hate,
The battles that we'd simulate.
And I grew tired and fell insensate
The day my childhood died.

So bye, bye my old school in the sky,
Left the shuttle in a muddle
With no one on whom to rely.
And I learned my skills from that Mazer guy,
Thinkin', "If I don't my sister Val will die."
"If I don't my sister Val will die."

[ January 26, 2007, 04:08 PM: Message edited by: Dagonee ]
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Awesome! [Big Grin]

One suggestion: "on whom," neh?
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
Eh. Which changed to whom.

Thanks!
 
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
[Cool] [Hat]

Only one problem. Now I have the original of that song stuck in my head.

I may have to hurt you. Nothing personal, you understand.
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
This will get it out of your head. [Evil]
 
Posted by docmagik (Member # 1131) on :
 
I can get it out of your head . . .

Everybody sing!

Whooooooooooo lives in an astroid way out in space?
EN-DER WIGG-IN!
Who'll save the butts of the whole human race?
EN-DER WIGG-IN!
If wiping out buggers is something you need . . .
EN-DER WIGG-IN!
Then give him an ansible! He'll do the deed!
EN-DER WIGG-IN!
EN-DER WIGG-IN!
EN-DERRRRR WIGG-IIIIIIIN!
 
Posted by Jeesh (Member # 9163) on :
 
Ahhhhhhhhhhh!
 
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
 
He's a complicated man,
and no one understands him but his AI philote!
 
Posted by Liz B (Member # 8238) on :
 
Best thread ever.

:mentally sifting through musicals for song for Petra:
 
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
 
It's Buggers!
With a Capital "B"
that rhymes with "P"
that stands for POOL!
 
Posted by Antony (Member # 7947) on :
 
hahaha what a great idea!
 
Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
Sung from the point of view of Ender's commanders:

You are eleven, going on twelve
looking for wars to wage
thinking it's all
just some trite game
even when your hand bleeds.

You are soon to be
older and enlightened
when you deploy their dooooo-ooommm . . .

We are just a few years older
We wi-iii--lll
all
fooolllooooowwwwwooooohhhhh
youuuuuuuuu.
 


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