Nur Ein XVIII Round Five "Choose Your Own Adventure"

[glennny]

Choose Your Own Adventure
by glennny
inspired by "Space and Beyond" by R.A. Montgomery

"Choose Your Own Adventure Number Four- Space and Beyond!"

I was born in a spaceship
3 days and 2 hours ago
now that means to me,
with relativity, I'm 18 Earth years old

If I choose Phonon as my home planet
then I turn to page 2
but if I'd rather instead go to Zermacroyd
then I'll turn to page 3

This is not the only choice for me
I've got 42 destinies

My father's home was Phonon
now it's mine too
I look down in alarm
something's very wrong!
that nebula shouldn't be there!

If I choose to try and get back to the mothership
then I'll turn to page 4
but if I trust my gut, and just go ahead
then I'll turn to page 6

This demise is not a fait accompli
I've got over 40 destinies

Heavy meteor showers
cause my space pod to spin
turn to page 12 to wait it out?
or to 14 to radio for help?

I'm flung out to the transit zone
a space caravan just might be going to Phonon
I could become part of the show!
I'll turn to page 24 to know

I joined the space circus
I'll make some high-energy quarks do tricks
I never made it to Phonon
but I no longer care

dozens of times I've called a Mulligan
I'll turn the page to read my death
again and again and again

THE END

[glennny]

Choose Your Own Adventure
by Cavedwellers
Special Thanks to Paul Lorigan for Baritone sax and awesome solo!


Young and dumb
Fun was every hour
Till the thing begun
We got very dour
But you hurt me so
Flirting with everyone but me
Last century
We were copasetic
“More adventury”
A life is how you said it
How you want it to be
That would work for anyone but me

Too late to leap now
That I’ve forgotten how

I’ll stay here and you go there
Go choose your own adventure
I’m not going anywhere

Hop a flight
Frolic out in Tuscany
Stay out all night
Answering to nobody
‘Cause it’s your right
But don’t expect to walk it back
Lost too long
Don’t wanna go that way again
A selfish lover
And a pretty shitty friend
Go climb a glacier
Get stuck in a crack

Too late to leap now
That I’ve forgotten how

I’ll stay here and you go there
Go choose your own adventure
I’m not going anywhere

We had our times, we had our hell
We split apart, it’s just as well


Too late to leap now
That I’ve forgotten how

I’ll stay here and you go there
Go choose your own adventure
I’m not going anywhere
It’s so clear that you don’t care
So choose your own adventure
I’m not going anywhere
With you

[Lunkhead]

“Choose Your Own Adventure”
by Moss Palace

Choice is an illusion
When you only have two paths

Whatever your decision
There is no turning back

You were dealt a hand to fold
And your fate has been decided
This can only end one way
There is only one true freedom
This can only end one way

Choice is an illusion
There is no turning back

Your future is foretold
By the options we provided
You can choose your own adventure
But only between this or that

You were dealt a hand to fold
And your fate has been decided
This can only end one way
There is only one true freedom
This can only end one way

[mo]

Choose Your Own Adventure
ellipsis featuring Evermind

(glitch effects: Stutter Edit on drums, on some vocals. Glitch delay on piano. Glitch generator also on drums, autotune on all vocals)

A fresh new name for this étranger
When I recognized myself again
I made my way back home
But no one recognized my face
(Reconnais mon visage
S’il vous plait)

What kind of choice is this
Different flavors of a devil’s kiss
Life is not the life you make
It can only be the one you take
(ne fais pas de vie
Prends ma vie)

Chorus:
You can choose your own adventure
Pick how to spend your time
You can choose the life you want
But don't choose mine

Kiddo if you like to walk the rut, that's fine
Go chase those dollar bills
But the rat race is a circle
And there's more outside the lines
(Il n’ya pas de hors-texte
Il n’y a pas des lignes)

Chorus:
You can choose your own adventure
Pick how to spend your time
You can choose the life you want
But don't choose mine

You can choose your own adventure
Same face inside different signs
Don’t let it get chosen for you
Like I did mine

We could all go down to Abilene
Though no one wants to go
And spend the whole ride wishing
I had said no

Now we’re all down in Abilene
We didn’t want to go
Not a single one of us knows why
No one ever said no

CHORUS

Tiens, voilà du boudin,
voilà du boudin,
voilà du boudin

Oublions avec nos peines
La mort qui nous oublie si peu
Nous la Légion

[SquirrelProof]

Choose Your Own Adventure
Eric Novak, addl. vocals from Isobelle

If you wanna feel sad
If you wanna feel hateful
There are plenty of people 'round
to help make it so

They may not mean harm
It's always due to some trauma
And if you wanna get mad
There's something there to make you mad

And so it goes
You choose your own adventure
A lesson I learn over and over
again and again

If you wanna be glad
If in fact you feel grateful
Despite everything you treasure
each breath of air

It takes a bit more work
It's still plenty of painful
'Cause the problems are real
and mad people tell you how to feel

You gotta watch out
You choose your own adventure
A lesson I learn over and over
again and again

I could only believe you
Could only believe what you said
When you told me to trust you

I could only believe you
Could only believe what you said
When you told me you love me

And here we go
We choose our own adventure
etc.

[Adam!]

Choose Your Own Adventure
by Max Bombast

I'm a stone set in my ways
I'm reliving my best days
I'm a poloroid picture snapshot of the past

I'm frozen here in time
Stuck in 1999
Lookin' fly in my hawiian tee and my cool-guy hat

They say that I should learn
They say that I should grow
But I'm just doing what I know

They say you need to choose your own adventure
Don't just copy someone else
You need to show you're no pretender
Find a style all by yourself

I was following all my friends
Never one to buck a trend
Livin' large with my spiked up hair and my JNCO jeans

But as everybody aged
One by one they went away
Now it's hard to start a mosh when you're the last one in the scene

They say that I should grow
They say that I should change
But I've been tryin' to stay the same

They say you need to choose your own adventure
Don't just copy someone else
You need to show you're no pretender
Find a style all by yourself

[sailingmagpie]

Choose Your Own Adventure by chewmeupspitmeout

I could build a cathedral
A pointless Monument to you
I wonder if you feel invisible too?
The ground feels so cold
Beneath my shoulder blades
Mossy rocks river spray

Fly away
Little bird
Fly away
My diurnal love
Gone into twilight
You can choose...

An afterthought, a relic
From a better time
When we could still
Pretend that we were blind
Tiny pinpricks of light
Dapple upon your cheek
Fireflies dancing in the rouge

Tipping over the edge
Of this cliff we've built
Out of silence and shame
But it's too late to play the blame game

Is not dying alone
A good enough reason to stay?
You can choose you own adventure
Fly away

But I always preferred the sad songs
Didn't I
But I always preferred the sad songs
Didn't I
But I always preferred the sad songs
Didn't I