broadway-feferi

[broadway-feferi]

)(-ELLO -EV-ERYON-E!!! O)(, it's been SO long since I last saw everyone )(ere. I would to offer my deepest and most o-fis)(-al apologies for t)(e break. I'm back now wit)( an original song! I )(ope you all enjoy }8D

cover art by @i-like-girls-69 -tysm!!!!!!

You can tell me that you’re right for me

But I can tell you that’s a lie

You can say you want the best for me

But that won’t stop me from saying goodbye

Red and pining say that you’re in love

You say we’re not done yet

But you’re an anchor and I’ve had enough

Of you dragging me down into your depths

Ohhhh

All diamonds lose their shine

Ohhhh

Don’t call me, I’ll be fine

I just can’t keep holding onto you

Hoping you find peace just like I’m gonna do

So long my old friend, we’ve had some happy times

It’s time to start the game and start up the rest of my life

I’ve spent too long looking after you

You’ve spent too long trying to hide

So tell me friend, whatcha gonna do?

You’re left with nothing not even your pride

Call it defeatist or just call me cruel

But I’m too tired to try

Our moirallegiance’s done for through and through

If I said I was sad that’d be a lie

Ohhhh

All diamonds lose their shine

Ohhhh

Don’t call me, I’ll be fine

I just can’t keep holding onto you

Hoping you find peace just like I’m gonna do

So long my old friend, we’ve had some happy times

It’s time to start the game and start up the rest of my life

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Hallows eve is upon us yet again. Tradition dictates a performance on this sacred night. And so, we sing. Lyrics and credits under the read-more

[EVERYONE]

Boys and girls of every age

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

[ARADIA, FEFERI, KANAYA]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene

Trick or treat 'til the neighbors gonna die of fright

It's our town, everybody scream

In this town of Halloween

[SOLLUX]

I am the one hiding under your bed

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

[FEFERI]

I am the one hiding under your stairs

Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

[EVERYONE] This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[KANAYA, KARKAT, VRISKA]

In this town, we call home

Everyone, hail to the pumpkin song

[KANAYA]

In this town, don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

[NEPETA, ARADIA, KARKAT]

Round that corner bend, hiding in the trash can

Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll

[KARKAT]

Scream!

[JADE]

This is Halloween

[KARKAT]

Red and black

[EQUIUS]

And slimy green

[JADE]

Aren't you scared?

[JADE, FEFERI, ROXY]

Well, that's just fine!

Say it once, say it twice

Take a chance and roll the dice

Ride with the moon in the dead of night

[DAVE]

Everybody scream, everybody scream

[DIRK, SOLLUX, KARKAT]

In our town of Halloween!

[KARKAT]

I am the clown with the tear-away face

Here in a flash and gone without a trace

[ARADIA]

I am the “who” when you call, “Who's there?”

[VRISKA]

I am the wind blowing through your hair

[ROXY]

I am the shadow on the moon at night

Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

[EVERYONE]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[JADE, FEFERI, ROXY]

Halloween! Halloween!

[KANAYA, DAVE, JADE]

Tender lumplings everywhere

Life's no fun without a good scare

[DIRK, ROXY]

That's our job, but we're not mean

In our town of Halloween

[EVERYONE]

In this town 

[KANAYA]

Don't we love it now? [EVERYONE]

Everyone's waiting for the next surprise

[ARADIA]

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back

[KARKAT]

And scream like a banshee Make you jump [EVERYONE] Out of your skin

[ARADIA, FEFERI, KANAYA,]

This is Halloween, everybody scream

[DIRK, DAVE, SOLLUX]

Won't ya please make way for a very special guy?

[NEPETA, ARADIA]

Our man Jack is king of the pumpkin patch

Everyone, hail to the Pumpkin King now!

[EVERYONE]

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

[JADE, DAVE, KANAYA]

In this town we call home

Everyone, hail to the pumpkin song

[EVERYONE]

La-la-la, la-la-la (La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, Halloween! Halloween!)

La-la, la-la-la (La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, Halloween! Halloween!)

La-la, la-la-la (La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la, Halloween! Halloween!)

La-la-la, hey! (La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la)

Special thanks to;

@june-egbert-413 (aka gagrealTheatre) for the artwork! @lyricalkarkat for helping dividing lyrics! @broadway-calliope for the extra assistance!

Performers: @broadwayy-karkat @broadway-aradia @broadway-vriska @broadwayy-kanaya @broadway-nepeta @broadway-feferi @broadway-equius @broadway-sollux @broadway-jade @broadway-dave @broadway-roxy @broadway-dirk

[broadway-feferi]

TW: Cannon sound effects

)(ello friends! Feferi )(ere 38)- a little fis)(y told me t)(at t)(is mont)( is supposed to be a very special and spooooky mont)( for you )(umans! Now, we can't let you )(ave all t)(e fun, can we? T)(is is an old folk song from Alternia about t)(e Condescension- I )(ope I did it justice 38)!

The Condesce they say

Took Heiresses away

And culled them tender and young

Into space she roams

In search of new homes

And far her song is sung

Yo ho all hands 

Hoist the colors high

Heave ho, all her cullers

Never shall she die

Many have died

And some are alive

They tell of her savagery

In whispered tones

That rattle bones

They beg, they plead mercy

Yo ho all hands 

Hoist the colors high

Heave ho, all her cullers

Never shall she die

Yo ho all together

Hoist the colors high

Heave ho, say your prayers

For never shall she die

But as it went, the price she spent

For an empire as vast as the skies

She was too far

From her home, now charred

And now in ruins it lies

Yo ho all hands 

Hoist the colors high

Heave ho, all her cullers

Never shall she die

Yo ho all hands

Hoist the colors high

Queen of the last of the trolls

Never shall she die

[broadway-feferi]

So -EXCIT-ED to finally release t)(is!! @broadway-aradia w)(en I first met you, you were roug)( on t)(e surface- w)(ic)( makes sense, given )(ow muc)( glubbing carp you'd been t)(roug)(! But I am so glad I got to know you betta, and I am so -EXCIT-ED to keep doing duets wit)( you for evermore 38)

[Intro: Aradia]

(Once, we had potential)

(Once, we had potential)

(Once, we had potential)

[Verse 1: Aradia]

Once, I had a great life, I had everything

I could want, I was young, I was too naive

My friends would laugh over jokes we’d made

Now, I’m dust, six feet deep in the grave

[Chorus: both]

And I feel like my castle's crumbling down

And I watch all my bridges burn to the ground

And you don't want to know me, I will just let you down

You don't wanna know me now

[Verse 2: Feferi]

Once, I was the great hope for a dynasty

I had plans, I had dreams, and I wished to lead

My faith was strong, but he pushed it too far

I held that grudge 'til it tore me apart

[Pre-Chorus: Both]

Danger came from the place I could not expect

Though I died, I still tried, to gain back respect

And here I sit alone in this dream of regret

Falling down like potential that I still had left

[Chorus: Both]

And I feel like my castle's crumbling down

And I watch all my bridges burn to the ground

And you don't want to know me, I will just let you down

You don't wanna know me now

(FEFERI)

My foes and friends watch my reign end

I don’t know how it could’ve ended this way

Happy endings turn to smoke right before me

Used to love me but now they all ignore me

Now the story’s writing on too fast

Try to play it back

But I’m watching them forget me

Didn’t want you to forget me

(ARADIA)

My foes and friends watch my reign end

I don’t know how it could’ve ended this way

Should’ve been central to the timeline

Now I watch it move on from the sidelines

Now the story’s writing on too fast

Try to play it back

But I’m watching them forget me

Didn’t want you to forget me

[Chorus: Both]

My castle's crumbling down

And I watch all my bridges burn to the ground

And you won’t see me grow, no, I will just let you down (Just let you down)

My castle's crumbling down

You won’t get to know me now, now

[Outro: Feferi]

(Once, we had potential)

(Once, we had potential)

(Once, we had potential)

[broadway-feferi]

O)( poor Dirk… I can’t believe )(e’s o-fis)(-ally dead… rest in pieces as t)(e )(umans say

broadwaystuck after hours 3/?

Call now and you too can get this magnificent eulogy service

[broadway-feferi]

counterpoint! A cloud is an indi-fis)(-ual made up of water bay-por! As suc)(, t)(is would be similar to a )(uman or a troll losing weig)(t as t)(ey do some strenuous —Exercise!! W)(ich I t)(ink we can agree, going up a mountain de-fin-itely falls under t)(at catfis)(etgory!

broadwaystuck after hours be like

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@broadway-dave I’m still rig)(t, clouds are NOT s)(itty fronds!!!!

broadwaystuck after hours be like

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I don't talk about it muc)(, but it s)(ore is )(ard to be someone's matesprit sometimes, especially w)(en your matesprit used to )(ave a matesprit before w)(o u)(, passed away...

Lyrics under cut

We know full well there’s no time

But it feels wrong to toss this life

And your heart was full of love

If it’s full again well could you give it up?

So what about what about your love?

You had it once, lost it once- was it special?

Even so, don’t give me up

Don’t give me up

How unfair it’s just my luck

Found something real just out of touch

But if you’d searched what’s left of the world

Could you dare to let it go?

So what about what about your love?

You had it once, lost it once- was it special?

Even so, don’t give me up

Don’t give me up

So what about what about your love?

You had it once, lost it once- was it special?

It’s not about not about our love

Not about our love

[broadway-feferi]

would you consider covering Flowers from Hadestown someday?

Ooooo, shore thing!

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OOC: Absolutely anon! I got the lyrics ready to go, but it’s taking me a hot minute to figure out the melody- thank you for waiting, and I hope to have it out soon!

[broadway-feferi]

Lyrics under cut

I close my eyes and I can see

The world that's waiting up for me

That I call my own

Through the sweeps, through the tears

There’ll be vicious fights and fear

But at the end, we’ll be home

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy

They can say, they can say I've lost my mind

I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy

We can live in a world that we design

'Cause every night I lie in bed

The brightest colours fill my head

A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be

A vision of the one I see

A million dreams is all it's gonna take

Oh a million dreams for the world we're gonna make

There’s a game we can play

Even when we lose our way

I’ll make sure we dream

Bubbled up, all white-eyed

Yes I know we might have died

Doesn’t mean we can’t dream

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy

They can say, they can say we’ve lost our minds

We don't care, we don't care, so call us crazy

Fighting for the world that we’ll design

'Cause every night I lie in bed

The brightest colours fill my head

A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be

A vision of the one I see

A million dreams is all it's gonna take

Oh a million dreams for the world we're gonna make

However big, however small

Let me be part of it all

Share your dreams with me

I know I won’t be here for it all

But say that you’ll bring me along

To the world we see

To the world we close our eyes to see

We close our eyes to see

Every night, I lie in bed

The brightest colors fill my head

A million dreams are keeping me awake

I think of what the world could be

A vision of the one I see

A million dreams is all it's gonna take

A million dreams for the world we're gonna make

For the world we're gonna make

[broadway-feferi]

Lyrics under cut

Somewhere in the Furthest Ring but I can’t place it

I kinda hate it, it’s so spacious 

Close my eyes, fantasize

Someday I’ll be back home

When I get back I'll lay around

Then I'll get up and lay back down

No games to win, no queens to kill

There's no place like my room

But you had to go

I know, I know, I know

Like a wave that crashed and melted on the shore

Not even our clown friend waits out here anymore

And you had to go

I know, I know, I know

In a post scratch world, I’ll find a new life

To get over what I left behind

A new friend in hand, with melded soul

But it never replaced the old

Thought I could be this brand new trollsprite

But you loved me too much, to accept that I’d died

And I’d changed once, then once more again

Pulled apart by your fight

So I gotta go

I know, I know, I know

When the ending comes, I’m to leave alone

But I'm not gonna go down or bow out with words untold

I'm gonna sing out

I know, I know, I know

I gotta go now

I know, I know, I know

Leaving now, don’t look back

Let the dreams I lost keep me on track

Went looking for a creation myth

Ended up with some blood-soaked lips

Eyes open wide, sing along

To some “interfishin” improv waiting song

A pirate ship, respite from 

All the sorrows yet to come

Eyes open, white, remember not

The feeling of being one then ripped apart

Our endings and our origins

All come down to a green twit’s whims

Either way, we're not alone

I'll find a bubble to be from

Like seafoam splits and vanishes

I’ll soak up life and turn to mist

No, I'm not afraid to disappear

An old friend said, "The end is near"

I turned around, there was nothing there

Yeah, I guess the end is here

The end is here

The end is here

The end is here

The end is here

[broadway-feferi]

I s)(ore do wis)( t)(ings were different…

Lyrics:

I carry the weight of you in my heavy heart

And this hole you put through me, makes me feel numb

I carry the weight of you heading back to start

Back to where it all began, now we can’t go on

Yeah, I’m tired, not growing older

I’m more lifeless every day, yeah

I carry the weight of you

I carry the weight of you

Lay down here

Beside me in the ocean water

Beside me where the moons are shining on us still

Lay down here

Beside me in the hallowed water

Beside me and remember who we used to be until

The game did call us

We fight on the meteor and it all goes wrong

And you hurt me so badly

It’s hard to breathe

Oh

Yeah, I’m tired, not growing older

I’m more lifeless every day, yeah

We fight on the meteor

We fought on the meteor

Lay down here

Beside me in the ocean water

Beside me where the moons are shining on us still

Lay down here

Beside me in the hallowed water

Beside me and remember who we used to be until

The game did call us

Yeah, I’m tired, not growing older

I’m more lifeless every day, yeah

I am fighting, but you’re stealing 

Every breath- take me away and just

Lay down here

Beside me in the ocean water

Beside me where the moons are shining on us still

Lay down here

Beside me in the hallowed water

Beside me and remember who we used to be until

The game did call us

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bangs open door -Eyyyyy wassup suckahs! I'm shore y'all musta had a good time with my with my Alternian counterpart, but now it's time for your favorite fish bitch to take over!

(art by @broadway-jane)

Lyrics

Whatcha cryin about sucka?

Runnin outta luck huh?

Charmed afterlife gonna make it all a ruckus

Didja get the boonbucks? Looking like a damn schmuck

If we don’t figure shit out then we’re sure as hell all fucked!

Do you wanna party? Trollian Smarty?

Are you gonna pack your shit up when it all comes tumbling down?

Do you wanna party? Trollian Smarty?

Are you gonna pack your shit up when it all comes tumbling down?

Go and pitch your fit, no one gives a shit

Better off if you just get over it!

I’m going crazy 

Lil tiny Beforus baby

Brand new ghost army

Stuck inside these bubbles goin’ crazy

Are you lookin’ for your lusus?

Whatcha cryin’ about, cryin about, cryin about now?

Do you buckle under pres-shore?

Go tumblin, tumblin, tumblin, down

Go and pitch your fit, no one gives a shit

Better off if you just get over it!

I’m going crazy 

Lil tiny Beforus baby

Brand new ghost army

Stuck inside these bubbles goin’ crazy

You’ll never make it in Beforus Baby (x 8)

I’m going crazy 

Lil tiny Beforus baby

Brand new ghost army

Stuck inside these bubbles goin’ crazy

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S)(aring an old song from way back w)(en we were still in t)(e game… Fun fact, a lamprey is a parasitic fis)(, not an eel!

(Lyrics)

Hate to give the satisfaction, asking how you’re doing now

How’s the castle you built off of friends you killed and just tore down?

Just what you wanted?

Look at you, wizard, you got it

I see our chatlogs, broken diamonds every time I close my eyes

Six sweeps as moirails ends in broken hearts and souls and straight up lies

Trusted you truly

Gotta laugh at my stupidity 

'Cause I've made some real big mistakes

But you make the worst one look fine

I should've known it was strange

You made me drained all the time

I used to think I was smart

You made me look so naive

The way you took up my time and all of my energy

Fun sucker, fame fucker, bleeding me dry like a goddamn lamprey

And all this time that Ive known you all your plots were bad, bad news

Doomsday devices such a surprise they never worked for you, you fool

You’re so dramatic

A hemospectrum fanatic

Oh, what a shame you had to be arrogant up to your gills

Can’t figure out just how you do it, and Glub knows I never will

Said we’re meant to be together

Well, frankly I say never

'Cause I've made some real big mistakes

But you make the worst one look fine

I should've known it was strange

You made me drained all the time

I used to think I was smart

You made me look so naive

The way you took up my time and all of my energy

Fun sucker, fame fucker, bleeding me dry like a goddamn lamprey

You said it was true love, but wouldn't that be hard?

You can't love anyone, 'cause that would mean you had a heart

I tried you help you out, now I know that I can't

'Cause how you think's the kind of thing I'll never understand

'Cause I've made some real big mistakes

But you make the worst one look tame

I should've known it was strange

You pulled away after the game

I used to think I was smart

But you made me look so naive

The way you tore us all down, blasted a hole into me

Hope crusher, fame fucker

Leave me to die like a goddamn lamprey

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)(appy )(auli-days --EV--ERYON--E! I )(ope you all )(ave a wonderful sea-son of )(ope and family- and for t)(ose w)(o don't s)(ell-ebrate, I wis)( you're able to get some w)(ale-deserved rest! As for me… w)(ale, I've got some grievances to sing about.

(This is an 8D audio! Please listen with headphones for the best experience!)

Cuttlefish

Moonlit waves

A lofty wish to bring peace

Trident glow

This I know

All of this fades into a dream

Someone holds me safe and warm

Love is found in a pile of horns

Bright white magic before me, my last memory

Far away, long ago

Fading away like laughter

Though I hoped, now I know

There’ll be no happy ever after

Someone holds me safe and warm

Love is found in a pile of horns

Bright white magic before me, my last memory

Though you’ve all long moved on

Listen to me carefully 

When you hear this old song

I hope you will remember me

Now this song, I will sing

On this eve of the Perigee

[broadway-feferi]

Hi friends! Thank you so much for your bay-tience. I am so --EXCIT--ED to share this!! It's tough being an heiress wishing for a kinder world for your people- and I just hope I can give them that someday!

(Cover Art by the lovely caballineToxophallic - go follow them, they're *amazing*!)

(Spoken)

Maybe Eridan's right

Maybe there is something the matter with me

I just don’t see why culling means we have to kill, and not heal

(Sung)

Look at my pets, aren’t they neat?

Wouldn’t you think my collection’s complete?

Wouldn’t you think you think I’m the troll, the troll who cares for everything?

Look at my hive, creatures untold

How many cuttlefish can these cages hold?

Looking around here you’d think- shore, she’s got everything.

I’ve got starfish and lobsters aplenty, There’s sea horses and oysters galore

See my mantis shrimps? I’ve got twenty!

But who cares, no big deal- I want more

I wanna see all my subjects thrive

I wanna see, wanna see them happy

Walking around on their- what do they call them again? Fronds?

Killing the weak is just not my jive

To cull should mean to heal and care for

Keeping them all so safe- away from all harm

Up where they walk, up where they run

Up where they stay away from the sun

Wanting to live, wish I could give (them)

A kinder world

It’d be my right, to spend the nights culling the infirm

It’d be my task, no questions asked, to love all the weak

Betcha on land, they’d understand 

Bet they don’t reprimand their moirails

Bright young princess, heir apparent, ready to lead

And ready to show just what I know

I’ll tend all the lowbloods and be so helpful

I’ll serve them truly and redefine what it means to cull

When’s it my turn? Wouldn’t I love?

Love to take over that world up above?

Out of the sea

Wish I could lead

A kinder world

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