Music by Benny Anderson
Original lyrics by Bjo:rn Ulvaeus
Author's Note: If this doesn't make sense, it's because it's not supposed
to. Also, some syllables aren't the right length, there's an extra verse
and refrain, and the repeat is sung to the end instead of fading.
Apologies for this filk can be found under the titles "If It Wasn't for
the Nights" and "Just Another Involuntary Andalite".
They passed us by, all of those great massacres,
You were our friends, helping us, giving us true chances,
Under the fool , everything seemed so easy...
Yeah, it was well enough so,
But Akdor had to go
And make it better still -- as you know...
Both of us would learn then,
Both our worlds would turn then,
Yeerk and Andalite
Thinkin' 'bout the future,
Already preparing us to fight... (well, he was believin' that we might be leavin')
One of us had gone there,
One of us won't wonder
Why I hear, (before
Our battles were fought, before I was even born),
A tired voice explainin', This is war!
Well, you were right, but then, you're right 'most always
Just keep expectin' the worst, it'll come true these days.
And RG-Two One Five Seventy-eight-Four
Was where I started the show...
Should I go on? You know!
Never would you forget what you saw!
One of us remembered,
One of us, in fact, cared,
And it wasn't me
Fightin' for the natives
As long as they could hope to be free... (there'd have been no use in stayin' kind and losin')
...One of us had chosen,
One of us still wasn'
Taking it so light
As he left the place, nonexistent lips pressed tight,
Sad to realize he'd done what's right...
No one knew why you went 'round lookin' that way,
You knew the truth, but orders were that you could not say.
Then came the child, an' you started revealin'...
That's where I dealt you the blow,
And since that day, you know
What life as one of us means -- it's so:
One of us is cryin',
One of us is lyin'
Helpless in my clasp,
Slave of such an evil,
Which even he, even now, can't grasp... (no one else is guilty of quite so much cruelty)
One of us is hopeless,
One of us is Corrass,
The voice in my head,
Suff'rin' so much more than his victims ever had,
And at least I know that he's not mad,
Just waitin' for death...
...Slave of such an evil,
Which even he, even now, can't grasp... (and what could be worse than watchin' how I worsen?)
One of us is hopeless,
One of us is Corrass,
Thinking all along,
'Now it can't be worse, what could have been done is done' --
This'll be the first time that he's wrong,
Soon I'll prove him wrong...
Original lyrics by Bjo:rn Ulvaeus
Author's Note: If this doesn't make sense, it's because it's not supposed
to. Also, some syllables aren't the right length, there's an extra verse
and refrain, and the repeat is sung to the end instead of fading.
Apologies for this filk can be found under the titles "If It Wasn't for
the Nights" and "Just Another Involuntary Andalite".
They passed us by, all of those great massacres,
You were our friends, helping us, giving us true chances,
Under the fool , everything seemed so easy...
Yeah, it was well enough so,
But Akdor had to go
And make it better still -- as you know...
Both of us would learn then,
Both our worlds would turn then,
Yeerk and Andalite
Thinkin' 'bout the future,
Already preparing us to fight... (well, he was believin' that we might be leavin')
One of us had gone there,
One of us won't wonder
Why I hear, (before
Our battles were fought, before I was even born),
A tired voice explainin', This is war!
Well, you were right, but then, you're right 'most always
Just keep expectin' the worst, it'll come true these days.
And RG-Two One Five Seventy-eight-Four
Was where I started the show...
Should I go on? You know!
Never would you forget what you saw!
One of us remembered,
One of us, in fact, cared,
And it wasn't me
Fightin' for the natives
As long as they could hope to be free... (there'd have been no use in stayin' kind and losin')
...One of us had chosen,
One of us still wasn'
Taking it so light
As he left the place, nonexistent lips pressed tight,
Sad to realize he'd done what's right...
No one knew why you went 'round lookin' that way,
You knew the truth, but orders were that you could not say.
Then came the child, an' you started revealin'...
That's where I dealt you the blow,
And since that day, you know
What life as one of us means -- it's so:
One of us is cryin',
One of us is lyin'
Helpless in my clasp,
Slave of such an evil,
Which even he, even now, can't grasp... (no one else is guilty of quite so much cruelty)
One of us is hopeless,
One of us is Corrass,
The voice in my head,
Suff'rin' so much more than his victims ever had,
And at least I know that he's not mad,
Just waitin' for death...
...Slave of such an evil,
Which even he, even now, can't grasp... (and what could be worse than watchin' how I worsen?)
One of us is hopeless,
One of us is Corrass,
Thinking all along,
'Now it can't be worse, what could have been done is done' --
This'll be the first time that he's wrong,
Soon I'll prove him wrong...