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Return of the Lydia

from RETURN OF THE LYDIA by The Tirith

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Return of the Lydia
The title track with the enigmatic title
On this album we revisit the space story we featured on our first album “Tales From The Tower”
On Tales From The Tower you first learned about a hapless band of privateers (probably us) bungling their way across the galaxy in a ship too old to be for real. How they discovered a tower on a distant planet surrounded by methane snow only to find the civilisation had died and all that remained was a strange hologram of a woman singing the history of her race.

In the song “Return of the Lydia” you learn more about this adventure, how we were originally sent to find a new planet and alien life. How we were entrusted with a mysterious key which powered and activated the everglade (our warp device). How we found aliens but refused to take their planet and went to Betelguise instead. How we returned to earth and crash landed in the desert in our highly modified and cannibalised spaceship (the Lydia) and how we came to appreciate earth for what it is. Then at last we walk down that stony road again to the castle by the rock and return the key and walk away arm in arm (or so the story goes so far).

lyrics

i) Return of The Lydia (part 1)

We turned the key again and slipped out of the everglide
And there before us was the world
A planet like no other we had ever seen
Blue and beautiful beyond all words
And as we touched the outer atmosphere we cried
And the Lydia shone brightly in the dark
We hoped her heatshield would see us through
Too late for final dramas now
The ride was rough and it seemed that all was lost
Then the ground came up to meet us much too soon
And we crashed out across the desert plain
The hatch came open and we were still alive


ii) What do you say to an Alien?

They sent us on a quest for knowledge
For worlds with alien life
Go find us a nice new planet
That we can colonise

What do you say to an alien if you’re lost for words?
Hello, my name is Mike, and I’m from planet Earth

So many barren rocks
Strung out across the arm
Dead worlds, poison gas
And aliens that mean no harm

What do you say to an alien if you’re lost for words?
Hello, my name is Mike, and I’m here to take your world

In the end we couldn’t do it, we couldn’t invade their world
We left them there on their planet, and went to Betelgeuse instead

In the end we couldn’t do it, we couldn’t invade their world
We left them there on their planet, and went to Betelgeuse instead

They sent us searching for something we already have
Looking for an Avalon so we can mess up that
But there’s only one world, only one Earth
We may have screwed it up but there’s only one Earth

So what do you say to an alien if you’re lost for words?
Hello, my name is Mike, and I’m from planet Earth
What do you say to an alien if you know your words?
Hello, my name is Mike, and I’m going back to Earth


iii) Return of The Lydia (part 2)

And so at last we walked along that stony road once more
The road that led down to the sea
Across the causeway arm in arm, united in the dawn
To the castle by the rock
And so we knelt before them and returned the key
Entrusted in our hands so long ago
Our days had passed, the quest was over
The Lydia now a wreck laid out across the rusting plain
We were so sad as we left the rock that day
And then we joined our hands together once more
And said those words one final time
“To the Galaxy and Beyond!”

credits

from RETURN OF THE LYDIA, released October 21, 2022
Music and Lyrics Tim Cox and Richard Cory

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The Tirith London, UK

The Tirith are one of the new UK-based Progressive / Classic Rock Bands. The band has a long history stretching back to the 70s, the present band reformed in 2010 and have been playing festivals and select gigs since 2011. The band is known for playing a wide variety of music within the Progressive genre and beyond. ... more

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