vanillajello: (Shocked!)
Kate Gregson ([personal profile] vanillajello) wrote2009-07-16 05:12 pm

Abaranger Cabin, Alcove B3, Late Thursday Morning

Kate was having the randomest dream, filled with trippy images that didn’t really connect to one another. Little did she know that being awake wouldn’t be any less surreal.

She was already singing when she woke up.

Trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
You have no word
Trip, trip to a dream dragon
Hide your wings in a ghost tower
Sails cackling at every plate we break
Cracked by scattered needles
The little minute gong
Coughs and clears his throat
Madam you see before you stand


Kate slowly sat up on her bed, eyes wide, her voice slightly affected by having just woken up.

Hey ho, never be still
The old original favorite grand
Grasshoppers green Herbarian band
And the tune they play is "In Us Confide"
So trip to heave and ho, up down, to and fro'
You have no word
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!


”What the hell?” she managed to mutter before the next section of lyrics.

Isn't it good to be lost in the wood
Isn't it bad so quiet there, in the wood
Meant even less to me than I thought
With a honey plough of yellow prickly seeds
Clover honey pots and mystic shining feed...
Well, the madcap laughed at the man on the border
Hey ho, huff the Talbot
"Cheat" he cried shouting kangaroo
It's true in their tree they cried
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!


Kate sighed and gave into the song, hoping this – whatever this was – would end soon. At least her singing sounded okay. That was something. Right?

The madcap laughed at the man on the border
Hey ho, huff the Talbot
The winds they blew and the leaves did wag
They'll never put me in their bag
The seas will reach and always seep
So high you go, so low you creep
The wind it blows in tropical heat
The drones they throng on mossy seats
The squeaking door will always squeak
Two up, two down we'll never meet
So merrily trip forgo my side
Please leave us here
Close our eyes to the octopus ride!


Kate kept her mouth tightly shut for some time after the song ended, thinking the singing might start again. When it seemed that it was done for now, she wondered aloud, ”Now what the fuck was that?”

[Open for cabinmate reactions, as these things tend to be. Took me some time to decide which song with somewhat random lyrics to use...]