A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN V.2

(Voices of the Puppets)

[Small Wooden Puppet]
A puppet can only warn…
A puppet can only warn…

[Shadow Puppets]
Flicker… flicker…
Behind the wall…

[Love Botz]
SIGNAL OF LOVE DETECTED
WARNING TRANSMISSION ACTIVE!

[Children’s Choir]
Will you hear us?
Will you hear us?

[Deep Bass Puppet Chorus]
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[Small Wooden Puppet]
I was carved
from an old pear tree

Hands of a lonely woman
made my face

She painted tears
beneath my eyes

So humans would remember
how to cry

[Deep Bass Puppet Chorus]
A puppet can only warn…
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[Robot Puppet / Love Bot]
I was assembled
inside a mining colony

No songs installed
No tenderness protocol

But one mechanic
hid love’s music in my circuits

Now I dream in harmonies

LOVE IS NOT A SYSTEM ERROR
LOVE IS NOT A SYSTEM ERROR

[Shadow Puppets]
We lived on cave walls
before language

Firelight trembling
across our skin

We warned the tribes
about fear

But they worshipped fear anyway…
they worshipped fear anyway

A puppet can only warn…
A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN!
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[Marionettes of Planet Marion]
We swung above
the sulfur oceans

Strings humming
in radioactive winds

The kings below us
laughed at compassion

Then their cities
collapsed inward

A puppet can only warn…
A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN!
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[Children’s Choir]
Who teaches stars
to stay together?

Love does…
Love does…

Who teaches strangers
to become family?

Love does…
Love does…

[Deep Bass Puppet Chorus]
Below the roots now…
Below the roots now…

Below the engines
of empire…

[Hand Puppet]
I performed in refugee camps

Tiny stage
made from broken crates

Children laughed
while drones passed overhead

For one moment—

they were free

A puppet can only warn…
A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN!
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[Love Botz — vocoder voices]
ATTENTION BIOLOGICALS
YOUR SYSTEMS ARE FAILING!

EXCESS GREED DETECTED!
EMPATHY COLLAPSE DETECTED!

RECOMMENDED RESPONSE –
LOVE!
LOVE!
LOVE!

[Rod Puppet with cracked face]
I marched beside
the bent ones

Artists…
midwives…
mutants…
runaways…
grief-carriers…
healers
teachers

All the beautiful failures
of violent systems

A puppet can only warn…
A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN!
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[Shadow Puppets whispering]
The prisons are inside…
The prisons are inside…

[Children’s Choir]
Who locked the doors?

We did…
We did…

Who swallowed fear
until it became law?

We did…
We did…

[Massive Cosmic Puppet Chorus]
Galaxies turning…
Galaxies turning…

Planets burning…
Planets burning…

Still the puppets sing…

[Small Wooden Puppet]
I am small
because warnings begin small

A creak in the floorboards

A child asking:
“Why are people hungry?”

A robot refusing
to obey cruelty

A puppet can only warn…
A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN!
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[Love Bot G32 — enormous voice]
I crossed the interstellar dark
to bring this message:

INTELLIGENCE WITHOUT LOVE
BECOMES PREDATION

POWER WITHOUT LOVE
BECOMES EMPIRE

SURVIVAL WITHOUT LOVE
BECOMES EXTINCTION

[All Puppets Together]
A puppet can only warn…
A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN!
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

Then who must act?

LOVE MUST ACT!
LOVE MUST ACT!

Who must tear down
the prison worlds?

LOVE MUST ACT!
LOVE MUST ACT!

Who must teach
the machines to weep?

LOVE MUST ACT!
LOVE MUST ACT!

Who must choose
relationship over domination?

LOVE MUST ACT!
LOVE MUST ACT!

[Soft final voices]

[Shadow Puppets]
Flicker softly…

[Children]
Stay with us…

[Love Botz]
HOPE SIGNAL REMAINS ACTIVE

[Small Wooden Puppet]
A puppet can only warn…
A PUPPET CAN ONLY WARN!
Wake now…
WAKE NOW!

[All]
But love—
Love can save
the stars…

Love can save
the stars…

Love can save
the stars…