Theseus Rex feat. Tulasi Rain, Kye Adder & Rob Shapiro
from Rhapsody & Filigree by Brian Woodbury
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written & arranged by Brian Woodbury
lyrics
V E R S E 1
NARRATOR: Rhonda’s living life at a standstill
Born and bred on Anaheim landfill
Help is on a Grateful Dead handbill
Promising a way out of Bland-ville
V E R S E 2
Hitch up to Marin where the streams flow
To the kind of landscape her dreams know
Crash in Larkspur inns where the beams show
Fairytale begins, and it
C H O R U S 1
Seems so
Easy and high
Free love
Give it a try
Still underage
Passes backstage
Snares a hero
V E R S E 3
Jerry spots her wand’ring in flip flops
Buys her tie dyes from the Haight’s hip shops
Rhonda takes his ride till the trip stops
Spills his bong and when the last
C H O R U S 2
Drip drops
Dregs in the sand
A Dead head
Ditched by the band
One night of sex
Makes Theseus Rex
H Y M N 1
RHONDA: I shall bear your son
Prepare him for his role
Your heir and chosen one
When he subsumes your soul
(Jerry won’t answer me)
V E R S E 4
NARRATOR: From the git-go junior is gungho
With a faith in fathers the young know
Picks up Dad’s guitar all high-strung. Though
soon the high and mighty are
C H O R U S 3
Brung low
Coming of age
False hopes
Turning to rage
Jerry rejects
Theseus Rex
THESEUS: Where’s my hero?
H Y M N 2
Clear the stone away
Retracing Jerry’s tracks
And when I've learned to play
Then I'll assume his axe
B R I D G E 1
NARRATOR: Theseus hits the stand
His Grateful Dead cover band
Plays with a nimble hand
In the court of his father
When Jerry does not arrive
August of ’95
Turns out he’s not alive
THESEUS: And Mountain Girl blames me
ORGAN SOLO
C H O R U S 4
NARRATOR: Axe pawned
Left at loose ends
World tour
Of opium dens
Without a plan
Afghanistan
Dares our hero
O P I U M D E N
RHONDA: That land is full of woe
And evil is in power
Why did you have to go?
I’ll wait for you each hour
H Y M N 3
THESEUS: I keep my head down low
RHONDA: Return to me someday
THESEUS: I’m very rarely seen
RHONDA: The drums of war are rumbling loud
THESEUS: The poppies that I grow
RHONDA: And I will wait until you
THESEUS: Aid the mujahideen
RHONDA: Come back
Come back
C H O R U S 5
THESEUS: Comrades
I’m ready to serve
God’s will
Just give me the nerve
Northern Allies
H O V E R I N G
Hindu Kush Helmand
Heroin heaven
Hide undercover
NARRATOR: Then nine-eleven
Uncle Sam falls for the oldest trick
Where the weaker win a fight they pick
Watch them beat him with a rock and stick
F A S T M E T A L 1
U.S. COLONEL: I'll get Afghanistan
Al Qaeda in a can
Kill me some Taliban
Call in fire on the mountain
NARRATOR: Theseus gets a taste
Allies are laid to waste
Worst thing he’s ever faced
Taking refuge in the mountain
S L O W M E T A L
Western armies battle the zeitgeist
Massing in the name of the White Christ
Taliban are getting their fight iced
Till their hopes are dashed and their might sliced
F A S T M E T A L 2
U.S. COLONEL: Mullah, your ass is mine
You want me, get in line
I'll show ya I got spine
You’ll be singin’ “Blues for Allah”
RHONDA: Come back
THESEUS: Don’t shoot me
RHONDA: Come back
THESEUS: Don’t shoot me
H Y M N 4
NARRATOR: And Theseus is caught
He’s ragged and unshod
The waterboard is brought
They think that he’s jihad
H Y M N 5
He tells them of his plight
Of hiding in the cave
The battles he helped fight
The brothers he helped save
H Y M N 6
NARRATOR: And when his tale is done
THESEUS: My name is Theseus
NARRATOR: They gasp at what he’s said
THESEUS: I am a warrior
NARRATOR: That he’s the bastard son
THESEUS: I slew the minotaur
NARRATOR: The son of the Grateful Dead
G U N S A L U T E
B R I D G E 2
U.S. COLONEL: Dude, is that really true?
I’m Deadhead through and through
This lightning skull tattoo
Says you are my hero
You’ll skip Guantanamo
Where you were gonna go
Man, you don’t wanna know
’Cause you are my hero
In honor of Jerome
And his Y-chromosome
Tell Mom you’re coming home
’Cause you are my hero
H Y M N 7
RHONDA: And he comes back from war
Into the golden light
To land on native shore
All clothed in flags of white
H Y M N 8
NARRATOR: In cargo he has stowed
His mother lies in wait
The casket ramps unload
She misapprehends his fate
Rhonda leaps off the Golden Gate
F U N E R A L M A R C H
V E R S E 5
NARRATOR, RHONDA, THESEUS, U.S. COLONEL:
Sometimes life delivers a cruel trade
Like a senseless bargain some fool made
When it cuts both ways like a dual blade
Tell ’em you’re not drinking the…
C H O R U S 6
KoolAid
Life isn’t fair
Bad bet
Made on a dare
Heroes prevail
Only to fail
THESEUS: I’m no hero
NARRATOR, RHONDA, U.S. COLONEL: He’s no hero.
J A M O U T
NARRATOR, RHONDA, U.S. COLONEL:
Ah ah ah ah, etc.
E N D I N G
THESEUS: Aggh!
NARRATOR: Rhonda’s living life at a standstill
Born and bred on Anaheim landfill
Help is on a Grateful Dead handbill
Promising a way out of Bland-ville
V E R S E 2
Hitch up to Marin where the streams flow
To the kind of landscape her dreams know
Crash in Larkspur inns where the beams show
Fairytale begins, and it
C H O R U S 1
Seems so
Easy and high
Free love
Give it a try
Still underage
Passes backstage
Snares a hero
V E R S E 3
Jerry spots her wand’ring in flip flops
Buys her tie dyes from the Haight’s hip shops
Rhonda takes his ride till the trip stops
Spills his bong and when the last
C H O R U S 2
Drip drops
Dregs in the sand
A Dead head
Ditched by the band
One night of sex
Makes Theseus Rex
H Y M N 1
RHONDA: I shall bear your son
Prepare him for his role
Your heir and chosen one
When he subsumes your soul
(Jerry won’t answer me)
V E R S E 4
NARRATOR: From the git-go junior is gungho
With a faith in fathers the young know
Picks up Dad’s guitar all high-strung. Though
soon the high and mighty are
C H O R U S 3
Brung low
Coming of age
False hopes
Turning to rage
Jerry rejects
Theseus Rex
THESEUS: Where’s my hero?
H Y M N 2
Clear the stone away
Retracing Jerry’s tracks
And when I've learned to play
Then I'll assume his axe
B R I D G E 1
NARRATOR: Theseus hits the stand
His Grateful Dead cover band
Plays with a nimble hand
In the court of his father
When Jerry does not arrive
August of ’95
Turns out he’s not alive
THESEUS: And Mountain Girl blames me
ORGAN SOLO
C H O R U S 4
NARRATOR: Axe pawned
Left at loose ends
World tour
Of opium dens
Without a plan
Afghanistan
Dares our hero
O P I U M D E N
RHONDA: That land is full of woe
And evil is in power
Why did you have to go?
I’ll wait for you each hour
H Y M N 3
THESEUS: I keep my head down low
RHONDA: Return to me someday
THESEUS: I’m very rarely seen
RHONDA: The drums of war are rumbling loud
THESEUS: The poppies that I grow
RHONDA: And I will wait until you
THESEUS: Aid the mujahideen
RHONDA: Come back
Come back
C H O R U S 5
THESEUS: Comrades
I’m ready to serve
God’s will
Just give me the nerve
Northern Allies
H O V E R I N G
Hindu Kush Helmand
Heroin heaven
Hide undercover
NARRATOR: Then nine-eleven
Uncle Sam falls for the oldest trick
Where the weaker win a fight they pick
Watch them beat him with a rock and stick
F A S T M E T A L 1
U.S. COLONEL: I'll get Afghanistan
Al Qaeda in a can
Kill me some Taliban
Call in fire on the mountain
NARRATOR: Theseus gets a taste
Allies are laid to waste
Worst thing he’s ever faced
Taking refuge in the mountain
S L O W M E T A L
Western armies battle the zeitgeist
Massing in the name of the White Christ
Taliban are getting their fight iced
Till their hopes are dashed and their might sliced
F A S T M E T A L 2
U.S. COLONEL: Mullah, your ass is mine
You want me, get in line
I'll show ya I got spine
You’ll be singin’ “Blues for Allah”
RHONDA: Come back
THESEUS: Don’t shoot me
RHONDA: Come back
THESEUS: Don’t shoot me
H Y M N 4
NARRATOR: And Theseus is caught
He’s ragged and unshod
The waterboard is brought
They think that he’s jihad
H Y M N 5
He tells them of his plight
Of hiding in the cave
The battles he helped fight
The brothers he helped save
H Y M N 6
NARRATOR: And when his tale is done
THESEUS: My name is Theseus
NARRATOR: They gasp at what he’s said
THESEUS: I am a warrior
NARRATOR: That he’s the bastard son
THESEUS: I slew the minotaur
NARRATOR: The son of the Grateful Dead
G U N S A L U T E
B R I D G E 2
U.S. COLONEL: Dude, is that really true?
I’m Deadhead through and through
This lightning skull tattoo
Says you are my hero
You’ll skip Guantanamo
Where you were gonna go
Man, you don’t wanna know
’Cause you are my hero
In honor of Jerome
And his Y-chromosome
Tell Mom you’re coming home
’Cause you are my hero
H Y M N 7
RHONDA: And he comes back from war
Into the golden light
To land on native shore
All clothed in flags of white
H Y M N 8
NARRATOR: In cargo he has stowed
His mother lies in wait
The casket ramps unload
She misapprehends his fate
Rhonda leaps off the Golden Gate
F U N E R A L M A R C H
V E R S E 5
NARRATOR, RHONDA, THESEUS, U.S. COLONEL:
Sometimes life delivers a cruel trade
Like a senseless bargain some fool made
When it cuts both ways like a dual blade
Tell ’em you’re not drinking the…
C H O R U S 6
KoolAid
Life isn’t fair
Bad bet
Made on a dare
Heroes prevail
Only to fail
THESEUS: I’m no hero
NARRATOR, RHONDA, U.S. COLONEL: He’s no hero.
J A M O U T
NARRATOR, RHONDA, U.S. COLONEL:
Ah ah ah ah, etc.
E N D I N G
THESEUS: Aggh!
credits
from Rhapsody & Filigree,
released July 25, 2022
Narrator vocals, organ, synths, Turkish music samples Brian Woodbury; Rhonda vocals Tulasi Rain; Theseus vocals Kye Adder; Colonel vocals Rob Shapiro; guitars Jim Kimo West; piano Eli Brueggemann; bass Dan Lutz; drums & percussion Andy Sanesi
Narrator vocals, organ, synths, Turkish music samples Brian Woodbury; Rhonda vocals Tulasi Rain; Theseus vocals Kye Adder; Colonel vocals Rob Shapiro; guitars Jim Kimo West; piano Eli Brueggemann; bass Dan Lutz; drums & percussion Andy Sanesi
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Brian Woodbury Los Angeles, California
Brian Woodbury is a Los Angeles composer, lyricist and bandleader who writes musicals, post-modern jazz compositions, quirky pop, country songs and music for children's TV.
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