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    Home, or: The Volunteers Consider Their Imminent Departure from Earth and a Future in an Impossibly Unfamiliar World

    Alter Locus, track 2

    Featuring vocals by Anne Dawson.

    Speech script and performance by Bradley Williams (Graywilde).

    Translations written and performed by:

    • Anne Dawson - French
    • Brandon Huisman (Solidus) - Dutch
    • Dan Pearson (Hentropy) - Japanese

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    i'm leaving home
    and there's no way that i am ever coming back
    i'm leaving home
    and there is nothing left to pack

    i'm leaving home
    i'm leaving everything familiar behind
    and
    i don't know what i will find

    terra keeps on turning
    but we can not survive
    for we have not been earning
    our right to stay alive

    so in lieu of immortality
    we burst into the sky
    and free from terra's gravity
    we fly

    i'm leaving home
    there's nothing left for me beneath this sky
    i'm leaving home
    and i can't wait to say goodbye

    i'm leaving home
    because the more we're pushed together
    the more we push away
    and i can't bear it
    i can't stay

    fauna unpredictable
    and flora so bizarre
    that our feeble terran minds can not relate

    but understanding is no requisite
    for coming as we are
    we know that everything must bow before the great

    pursuing our redundancy
    and hoping for abundance
    even advocates would say we're optimistic

    but migrants of the past
    whom we are hoping to outlast
    only survived because they weren't so fatalistic

    today marks the beginning of humanity's greatest endeavour
    five thousand people will achieve an independence of a sort that has not been seen for millennia
    those five thousand brave souls who dare venture from their homes represent a safeguard
    a safeguard against humanity's greatest vulnerability
    life on terra as we know it could end tomorrow
    but there would still be hope
    soon, we will breathe easy knowing that our lineage will carry on
    out there
    among the stars

    we're going home
    together we will make a brand new start
    we're going home
    and it is tearing us apart

    we're going home
    pyrrha's spoils are ours for the taking
    and we will
    every valley, every hill
    toats a colons joint

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