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Speaker 1: Hello, friends from across the nation and around the world.

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I'm Martin, and you are listening to Dad's bedtime stories.

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Tonight we're gonna be hopping back into the spaceship universe

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for this suggestion or these suggestions, I should say.

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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Martin.

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Speaker 3: It's Rowan from race Bridge. I want to do a

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music planet where people are music notes and their Rex

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comes to steal their music.

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Speaker 4: And when.

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Speaker 3: Rex comes, he brings like this tiny or actually big,

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like big vacuum that secks up music. And thanks, I

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love your podcast.

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Speaker 2: Bye.

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Speaker 1: Awesome suggestion, Rowan, it looks like we might have one

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from your brother here too.

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Speaker 5: I'm Josh from Bracebridge, and I'm gonna have a suggestion

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for a music planet where they sing everything that and

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then it comes to life, and that.

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Speaker 6: There's a toinail and if any swing and if they

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get struck in the tornado, that that makes them can't sing,

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so they have to get in their houses and it

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steals their beat.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I love your podcast. By all right, well, thank you

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to Rowan and Jacks for those suggestions. I will say,

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in combining all those things together and making it one

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cohesive planet, I might have to change a few details,

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but I hope you like what ends up there. As

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far as announcements go, I just want to remind everyone

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that we do have a March contest on to share

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the podcast on kind of any kind of social media

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and be entered in a draw for a guaranteed story idea.

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Now there's pretty much no wrong way you can do it.

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If you share the podcast in any way that works

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for you with other people, you can fill out my

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Google form letting me know how you shared it, and

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I will put you in the draw. The winner gets

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a guaranteed story idea and the option of a little

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interview at the beginning of it to tell us all

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about your idea. I ran this last year at about

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the same time for a few months straight, and I

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believe I even interviewed Rowan and Jacks, the people who

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suggested this episode, because they do a pretty awesome job

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of sharing the podcast with everyone they can in and

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around Bracebridge. But now it's that I'm again just in

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case we have a commercial break, I'll put it right

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here perfect Now, close your eyes, get as comfy as

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you can in that bed, and imagine yourself doing what

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the kid in the story does. Imagine yourself waking up

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on spaceship. Good morning, Spaceship says, You sit up, finding

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yourself on the couch of the ship. Oh good boy,

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it ag spaceship. You answer, I believe I have discovered

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a very interesting planet. Oh cool, I could go for

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a little adventure. What did you find? You ask, I

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believe it is a music planet, a planet largely made

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up of musical notes that have been put together, almost

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like programmable matter. Uh cool, I mean, I don't even

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really know what that means, but it sounds like a

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fun thing to check out, you answer. Setting course, Spaceship says.

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The ship turns just a little bit downward, and you

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continue at super hyper drive until suddenly stopping high above

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an absolutely beautiful planet. At first, it looks like a

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pearl hanging in space, shining with soft colors like pink

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and gold and turquoise and violet. But as you get closer,

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you notice that the colors seemed to ripple. The whole

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planet glows in little pulses, as if light itself is

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breathing in and out to a beat, like the beat

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of a song. And then, even up in the vacuum

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of space, you hear it music. It drifts through Spaceship's

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sensors and speakers, not one song exactly, but hundreds of

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tiny little melodies weaving through the ship. Some are bright

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and bouncy, some are slow and dreamy, Some sound like humming,

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and some sound sort of like laughter. Oh you whisper.

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The closer you get, the more beautiful the planet becomes.

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The clouds below are shaped in long, curling swirls, almost

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like treble clefts. Gray shining rivers curve over the land,

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and loops and arcs like silver ribbons on a page

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of music. Forests grow in bands of color and hearing.

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You see little towns with towers and rooftops rising, and

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all sorts of different shapes. Prepare to land. Spaceship says,

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his engines soften, and he glides down towards the ground.

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Light dances over the window. Tiny bursts of color flicker

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around the ship like fireflies. When the ship lands, the

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ramp lowers with a little hiss. Immediately, warm air flows inside.

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It smells kind of like flowers and fresh bread and

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rain on top of stone, if that makes any sense.

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And there's something else in the air too, something impossible.

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It smells the way singing might smell, if singing had

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a smell, bright and clean and happy. You step down

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on the ground. The grass beneath your feet is soft

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and springy, and every step makes the faintest musical note,

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a little dough, a little ray, tiny shimmering me. You

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try another step, and this time it gives you another note.

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Soon you're carefully walking in a small circle, just to

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hear the tune the ground makes under you. Remarkable Spaceship says,

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the surface appears to be mildly responsive to rhythm. You

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look over to the town nearby. It's one of the

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prettiest places you've ever seen. Small houses curve and spiral,

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as if they were shaped by wind and song instead

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of bricks and wood. Shop roofs hark up like wings.

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Statues stand in the middle of little squares, some shaped

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like giant harps, some like singing birds, some like people,

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with open mouths and streams of carved notes floating around them.

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Colorful banners hanging between buildings, shifting gently in the breeze.

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Little fountains rise and fall, and really cool patterns, each

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splash sounding almost like a song of its own, and

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moving through the streets. Are people or well. At first

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you think they're tiny, floating symbols made of light, but

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then one comes closer and you realize it's a living

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music note. It's small and glossy and black, like a

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note written on paper, but it shines at the edges

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with sort of rainbow colors. It has bright eyes, tiny

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little arms, and little feet. The tap in time as

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it walks and makes the same notes your feet did

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as you walked. It bobs slightly with each step, as

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if even walking for it is kind of like dancing.

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The little music note stops in front of you and

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gives a cheerful bow. Hello, it says, or sort of sings.

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Its voice is clear and sweet, and as it sings

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or speaks, two tiny golden notes float out of its

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mouth and drift upward before dissolving into sparks. You blink

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in surprise.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to the music planet, Hello, you say, ah, happy

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to be here. I am called Quaver, says the note proudly,

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and I am on welcoming dooty today, which is a

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very important dooty because it involves smiling, bowing, and showing

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people around. That does sound important, It is extremely important,

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says Quaver. Visitors become cranky if you don't know how

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to show.

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Speaker 1: Them to the snack stand. H I guess that's accurate,

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you respond. Quaver floats up a little higher, circling in

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front of you. Would you like a tour? I can

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show you the singing gardens, the melody market, the chorus square,

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the instrument fountains, and the house making circle. We are

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very proud of the house making circle. You nod right away. Uh, yes, please,

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you say. Quaver turns and begins skipping down the path

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you follow through the town, while spaceship shrinks behind you

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and sort of floats behind as you walk. You notice

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something extraordinary. Nothing here seems still at all. The houses

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don't wobble exactly, but they seem to hold a little

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hum inside them. Decorations hanging from windows chime and the breeze.

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The statues themselves seem to sort of resonate with music

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of their own. Even the food displayed in little stands

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as a sort of musical quality, as if it's made

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up of vibrations of sound. It all looks alive, you say,

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Quaver glances back at you with a smile. That's because

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it is all made from song, all of it. You

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ask all of it, Quaver responds. He leads you through

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the wide open square in the center of town. In

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the middle is a circular stage made of smooth, pale stone.

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Around it stands several music notes, with people of all

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different shapes. Some are round and bold, others are long

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and elegant. Some are brightly colored. Some sparkle a gink

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around the stage. A crowd is gathered. Ah, what happens here?

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You ask? Here, the little note says, is where we

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sing things into existence? You stare at the stage. You

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mean you really like literally sing things into existence? Of course,

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how else would you make a house? You open your

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mouth and then close it again. Spaceship answers for you.

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construction process. He explains, how dreadful. Quaver answers. A few

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more note people float onto the stage. They arrange themselves

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in a little semi circle. Quaver lowers its voice to

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a whisper. Watch carefully, this one is one of our

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best building songs. The notes on the stage take a

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breath together, and then they begin. They weave together a

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beautiful melody, And as they sing, little musical notes rise

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out of their mouth and begin to spin around them.

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You stand completely still, just watching as the notes float

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and gather and connect and then build themselves. A glowing

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outline appears in the air, floors, walls, windows, then a

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curved roof with little decorative swirls. The shining notes knit

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themselves together with beams and edges and doors and shutters,

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until in front of your eyes, right there on the square,

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a beautiful little house forms out of pure music. The

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sound ends, The last node hangs in the air for

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a moment like a star. Then there's silence. The house

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stands complete. Quaver turns to you, glowing with pride. See it,

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says that's amazing. You respond, yes, Spaceship adds, I am

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also impressed. You walk up to the building and place

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a hand on the wall. It feels warm and as

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if it's humming gently. And then, somewhere far away, just

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at the edges of your hearing, you hear a different

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sound that Spaceship says does not sound like local music.

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Quavers smile, falters, and above the town a shadow begins

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to pass by. You look up, and at first all

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you can see is a dark shape sliding across the

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glowing sky. But then the shape lowers and your eyes widen.

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It's a spaceship, but not just any spaceship. It's shaped

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like a giant t rex head, unmistakably one of Rex's

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or Rex's clones. The ship hovers over the square with

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a great mechanical growl. When whips through the town, banners flap,

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the little musical notes below begin to huddle together, their

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bright edges trembling. Then a hatch opens in the ship's belly,

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and a metal platform lowers down standing on it, wearing

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his normal white lab coat fluttering in the wind. Is

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a Rex clone. For those of you who might not know,

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Rex is an evolved t Rex scientist, and he looks

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as annoying and dramatic as ever. Right here, citizens of

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Music Planet, he booms, Rejoice, your civilization is about to

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become useful. Nobody rejoices. Waver hides partly behind your leg

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I do not like him. That's because your edit sincs

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are excellent, you say. The Rex paces across the platform

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as though he's giving a lecture to a room of

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adoring people for years. He announces, I have searched for

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a better building material for my ship. Metal is heavy,

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crystal is fragile, self folding nanofoam is expensive, and it

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gets stuck in events. But now I have discovered your

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marvelous musical matter. He points directly at the buildings of

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the village. Programmable, responsive, reformable, structurally elegant matter. You sing

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it one way, it becomes a house. You sing it

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another way, it becomes a bridge, or a wing, or

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a laboratory, or perhaps a Nacho dispenser or something. He pauses,

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mostly the laboratory, though for my cases. Quaver peeks out

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from behind you. We are not programmable matter. We are people.

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The Rex clone squints down at Quaver. Yes, yes, obviously

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people ish anyways, very charming, also unbelievably useful. You step forward,

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activating your watch, allowing your space suit armor to fold

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around your body. Leave them alone, you say, O, it's you.

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I thought you might be here, and spaceship do ah well.

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Rex pulls a lever beside him. Immediately, the belly of

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the t Rex ship opens wider, and a massive tube

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drops down from underneath it. The tube glows with pulsing

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red light and begins to whine louder and louder. What's

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that you ask. It appears to be a gigantic vacuum device.

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Spaceship answers, the rex Clone laughs. Not just a vacuum device,

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a resonant extraction engine. It identifies the musical structures of

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your town and pulls them apart at the very note level.

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Quaver gasps, and the other music people begin to cry

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out and frighten little melodies that still sound absolutely beautiful. Somehow,

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no Quaver shouts, but the engine is already starting. A

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swirling force tears through the square. You watch in horrors.

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The beautiful new house on stage begins to shimmer, Its

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walls tremble. Then cloning notes start to peel out of it,

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one by one, then in streams, and then in a

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rushing cloud. They rip through the air and vanish into

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the clones vacuum machine thingy. The house caves in and disappears.

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The whole crowd cries out. Then the extraction beam swings

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across the town, absorbing a statue that looks like a harp.

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A food stand loses its shining trays, its shelves, it's

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striped roof, and even its little sign. Across the street,

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a whole shop folds in on itself as the notes

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are torn free from the walls. Oh no, he's taking everything,

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you yell, yes, Spaceship says, that seems to be his

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very rude plan. All around you, the town begins to

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become well undone. The carved arch over the square disintegrates,

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The fountain loses its graceful stone and becomes a swirl

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of notes. Platters of glowing food vanish right out of

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people's hands, tables, doors, lamps, benches, flower boxes, roof tiles,

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market stalls, statues, signs. Everything that's ever been made of

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song rips apart and is sucked in to Rex's ship.

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The air that had been so full of beauty is

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now just full of frightened sounds from the little note people.

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Our homes, quavers says, our market, our gardens. You look around,

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A little note family stands where their house once was,

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staring at the empty space. A cluster of little note

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children try to gather up floating scraps of melody, as

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if they could somehow push them back together. Even the

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snacks stand as on. The people look absolutely devastated, and

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then Rex's ship begins to change, as if the outsides

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are sort of reforming themselves. New fins unfold. A turret

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rises from the back. Decorative ridges form along the neck.

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A set of extra engines bloom near the tail. He

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cackles in delight. Look at that. It works even better

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than I imagined. A responsive instant ship upgrades. Soon, my

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entire vessel will be made out of adaptive musical matter.

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He leans over the railing and points a tiny clad you,

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and there's nothing you can do about it. Stop, you yell,

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but Rex's clones ship starts moving fast away. You race

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through the streets that are becoming emptier by the second.

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A row of decorative towers is stripped bare before your eyes.

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All around you, the town becomes bare and open. Well.

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Rex says, I think that will do for my first collection,

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though I may return later for more. He begins raising

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the platform back into the ship. No Waiver says, You

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look at the ruined town and feel a heavy sadness.

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That is one of the rudest things you've ever seen.

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We can rebuild, Quaver says weakly, But he stole so

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many notes, so many songs, it will take a very

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long time. You look up at Rex's ship. Its hull

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is glowing with streams of stolen music, weaving through it

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like veins of light. Spaceship flies over beside you. He

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may have taken what they already sang into existence, but

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that is not the same as taking music itself. What

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do you mean, you ask, I mean, as long as

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the people here have the ability to create music, they

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can recreate everything that has been taken. And you say,

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maybe they can create something to stop him altogether. Quaver,

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I have an idea. What if you guys sing into

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existence like a giant cannon that can shoot down Rex's ship,

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or like I don't know, uh, tear it apart using

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sound vibrations or something that is an excellent idea. Yeah,

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Quaver looks back at the others. They all nod in unison,

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and then they begin to sing. The musical notes leave

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their mouths, They swirl around in the air, and then

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bit by bit, they start forming themselves into what looks

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like a gigantic cannon. It starts as an outline, and

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then the pieces begin to fill in, until eventually there's

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a gigantic sound cannon standing in front of you. Now, fire,

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Quaver says, flying over to the cannon and hitting a

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gigantic button on it. The cannon aims itself at Rex's

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ship and unleashes a blast of pure sound energy. As

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the energy hits his ship, the ship begins to shake.

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The little pieces of programmable music matter that we're making up.

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The new fins and engines start to crack and break

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apart into their original music notes, and then the hull

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of Rex's ship itself starts to crack. You see a

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small explosion, and the ship starts to fly down towards

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the ground to some sort of crash landing, leaving behind

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the programmable music matter. The ship explodes in the distance,

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but you see a smaller ship take off from it,

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an escape pod, you realize as you watch the much

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smaller t Rex shaped head shoot off into the sky.

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Then the music people begin to save once again. This

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time the little musical notes weave their way up into

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the sky over towards the debris of musical notes that

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is now falling like rain from well Rex's ship, or

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what's left of it. The little music notes from the

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song catch the other musical notes that Rex originally absorbed.

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They fly through the air, they weave above the city,

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and they begin quickly forming themselves back into the same

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village that was there before. The bakeries are recreated, the

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stores and statues are recreated. The houses and street lamps

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come back into existence, looking even better and more beautiful

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than before. Actually, the people stop singing, but you can

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feel the resonant sound of the village being rebuilt. It's

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full once again. Thank you, Quaver says, you have saved

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our city. Ah here, welcome. Rex is kind of my fault.

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After all, he tends to follow me around and try

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to stop my plans. We have sort of a love

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hate relationship. You might say. You explain interesting, Quaver response. Anyways,

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I guess I better go. It was really cool meeting

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you guys, and well seeing how you create matter out

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of song really neat. Spaceship glows in front of you

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and then grows larger and larger until it's a normal

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sized ship once again, and you climb back aboard the ship.

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The doors close behind you, and spaceship flies up into

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the air, through the treble cleft shaped clouds and out

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into space once again. You just lay down on the couch,

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the lights dim, you close your eyes, and you just

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listen to the sound of the ship, the humming coming

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from all around you. Rising and falling, And as you listen,

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you just focus on your breath, noticing as your stomach

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rises and falls, and with each breath you try to

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let go of a little more tension from your muscles.

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You start with your legs, letting go of any tension.

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Then you move on to your arms, and your shoulders

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and your neck, and with each breath you sink down

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a little bit deeper. And the deeper you sink, the

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better you feel, and the better you feel, the deeper

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you sink, until it feels like you're floating on a cloud.

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You still hear the beautiful melodies singing inside your mind

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as it wanders off to thoughts of new dreams, new adventures,

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and new songs to come. Good night.

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Speaker 2: Everyone must.

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Speaker 7: Never Union Nacion music.

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Speaker 5: M more.

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Speaker 7: Union Kicking Thing