Hypership Blues
Skirmish: Relate / Relative / Relat... (@wylddandelyon)
Liner Notes
So, I was working on an instrumental thing last night, and it needed words, but I had no idea what words they should be. Then I reached this skirmish, and the story unfolded. It took longer than I wanted, because the instrumental part wasn't set up for an intro, and I had to restart the Apple twice to get the midi going again so I could record the vocals, but here it is.
This is two tracks of guitar (Grin Reaper), a track of bodhran, a vocal backing track, and finally the vocal for the lyrics. The chords are Dm, Am, and G.
#relativity #filk #blues #space
Lyrics
Hypership Blues
Deirdre M Murphy
When I was young, I dreamed of going to the stars
I fought to earn a spot on the colony ship to Mars
I was too much a loner, I didn’t make that crew
But they made me the test pilot of the Hypership Blue
They explained relativity, I signed a release
I didn’t care about that, because I’d finally be free
I’d see that vast world where no humans were before
I couldn’t wait to launch away and explore
My Blue reached lightspeed; I finished my first book
And she slowed successfully, and then I took a look
The instruments recorded things from that different view
Then the ship turned homeward, and I started on book two
Now I’m looking at my home world; the continents have moved
I guess that time dilation thing’s unquestionably proved
It should have been a decade, but millennia have passed
There’s nothing on the radio. I’m just a relic of the past.
Copyright ©2025 (2/24/25) Deirdre M. Murphy (my FAWM skirmish “relative/relativity”)
Comments
![[FAWM]](/static/img/ukulelecorn.svg)
To be consistent with relativity, you might want to use "reached near-c" or "approached lightspeed" instead of "reached lightspeed." Nothing with mass can actually accelerate to lightspeed, according to Einstein.