"Legacy" as performed by Alana Henderson as Ros in Something Greater Than Artifice, the RealtimeConf production

Legacy.txt

## "Legacy" by Alana Henderson

[Listen to the MP3](https://cloudup.com/ctZJZshxYSY) or [watch the performance](https://vimeo.com/77273417)

__*leg·a·cy*__

1. *noun*: anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor
2. *adjective*: of or pertaining to old or outdated computer hardware, software, or data that, while still functional, does not work well with up-to-date systems

## Lyrics

__VERSE 1__

Come best and come brightest from near and from far
You, who've had it so good for so long, here you are:
The guardians of art that is new and amazing
It's a torch thats worth holding, 
It's a trail that's worth blazing

__PRE-CHORUS__

But there's no fire that can't burn
And there's no good that can't turn into bad 
if you close your intelligent minds
and if you're making this world smaller day by day,
are we coming any closer or just turning away?

__CHORUS__

So i'd like us to close the gaps
Between your world and my world 
Between this part and that
So I play in the gaps in between
where we are now and realising the dream...

__VERSE 2__

The weak and the wanting are the first ones to go
They're ones you see lost, but you choose not to know
Because it doesn't concern you, they're not of your kind
You've got your own thoughts and you know your own mind

__PRE-CHORUS__

And you might think you know so much
You might think you've got it sussed
But i once thought i knew as well
Until it was my own who fell..
But there is learning in looking back
And we've all come this far so we're on the right track


__CHORUS__

So i'd like us to close the gaps
Between your world and my world 
Between this part and that
So I play in the gaps in between
From where we are now to realising the dream...

__VERSE 3__

Let my peoples legacy be
An eye to eye meeting between you all and me
Let my peoples legacy teach
That part of the whole,  is what we are each

__PRE-CHORUS__

So lend me your fire,  
show me that spark
close up the gaps
keep out the dark
Cuz if we're making this world smaller bit by bit
What good is that, if we are not together in it?

__BRIDGE__

And i believe in all of you,
Maybe more than you all do
That's the power of joining forces:
Quiet all those doubting voices,
Thats the power of joining hands
Balance out each-other's cans and
cannot dos, they cant ignore us
if the song sounds better when its sung in chorus

And if the solo wears you out,
The harmony will heal it
A change is coming in,
The gaps are closing i can feel it!

__CHORUS__

So i'd like us to close the gaps
Between your world and my world 
Between this part and that
So I play in the gaps in between
From where we are now to realising the dream
From what I can see and what I have seen
From what we are now and what I know is gonna be
Our legacy


## References

"Well, you must understand how it is here, Ros. The people of the Tech Republic, they’ve had it very well for a long time. They’re a new people, and assured in their safety. They’ll not be as easy as some to convince of the danger of SILOS." (novel)

"They came for our weak," Mikhail said. "They came for the desperate ones, the isolated ones in need of aid and succor. The ones that we – all of us – could have helped but didn’t." (novel)

"But now I'm here, and as I look around I realize that even though I've...we've all lost so much, we still have one another, and I have to believe that that counts for something" (play)

"Someone who believes in a dream, believes in you, perhaps even more than you believe in yourself?" (novel)

"A community eases those burdens. It helps you look at your little faults and insignificant failings for what they are. It gives you perspective.” (novel)

Boo.. you can't issue a pull request on a gist.

I was working on a blog post and wanted to quote the lyrics from the song and realized the last three lines or so are missing. Here's my revision with those lines added: https://gist.github.com/jessmartin/7102939

Cheers!