Song Quotes/Lyrics

The Protomen -- A Mega Man Rock Opera
Hope Rides Alone
Narrator:
No one was left who could remember how it had happened, how the world had fallen under darkness.
At least no one who would do anything.
No one who would oppose the robots.
No one who would challenge their power, or so Dr. Wily believed...

Twenty Floors above the dark streets of the city, Dr. Light lived in a run-down tenement.
An eccentric and brilliant man. Light was a loner, a thinker, a man of ideas.
Ideas forbidden in Wiley's society.
The society for which he worked.
The society in which he lived.
The society that he would set free.
And so Light worked, far into the night, when the watchful eyes of Wiley's robots weren't upon him.
He'd set his skillful hands to the task of creating a device to bring about a change, to create a machine to bring freedom, to create a man to save the world.
Twelve years Light worked and on a cold night in the year 200X, Protoman was born.
A perfect man, an unbeatable machine, hell-bent on destroying every evil standing between man and freedom, built for one purpose, to destroy Wiley's army of evil robots.
Ready, willing, prepared to fight

Cutman
Gutsman
Elecman
Bombman
Fireman
Iceman
Proto

Fireman:
Attack!

Narrator:
Fight.

And as the smoke cleared. Wiley rose above the countless robots remaining. Protoman was wounded, low on energy, struggling to remain standing as Wiley ordered the final attack.

The death of Protoman.

The crowd had gathered there to watch him fall, to watch their hopes destroyed. They watched them beat him, they watched them break him, they watched his last defense deployed.
There was not a man among them who could let himself be heard.
But from the cword, from the collective fear, arose these broken words:
We are the dead
We are the dead

Human Choir: What have we done?
Narrator: We are the dead
Human CHoir: What will we do?
Narrator: We are the dead
Human Choir: Where will we turn?
Narrator: We are the dead
Human Choir: Is there nothing we can do?
Narrator: We are the dead
Human Choir: How did it come to this?
Narrator: We are the dead
Human Choir: How did we go so wrong?
Narrator: We are the dead
Human Choir: We are the dead

Funeral For a Son (Instrumental)

Unrest In the House of Light
You have heard me tell this story
Many times before you sleep
This time listen carefully

And I will tell you once again
But this time understand that what I'm telling you.
Every single word is true.

You need to know.

There was another who came before you
He was a hero and your brother and my son.
He fought the darkness, the darkness won.

And he fought bravely, and he died bravely
But he was forsaken by the ones he wished to save.
And when he died he died in vain.

You need to know.
You are not him.

That time is coming, and I must warn you
That though it's something that you may not understand
They can be saved by just one man.

And I am sorry, cause I was wrong
And I'd take away the weight his shoulders had to bear.
Cause when he fell I was the only one who cared.

You need to know.
You are not him.
This fight's not yours.

That story's finished. That story's ended.
Understand there's no more that we can do.
And I will not risk losing you.

For if you leave now, you will be fighting
for a people that refuse to comprehend
They have chosen their own end.

So you will stay here. You will obey me.
And I will keep grieving for the son I sent to death.
You are the only thing I have left.

You need to know.
You are not him.
This fight's not yours.

You cannot win

Sunshine Soldier
by
Arthur

Walking down the street
is a Sunshine Soldier
a penny in his pocket
not a dream to his name.

His day has past,
his world has ended,
and now he stands in the
pouring rain.

A child walks by
and hands him a flower
and that is how
love is begun.

Brothers and sisters
embrace each other.
A shadow has fallen from
the face of man.

He closes his eyes
and the Sunshine Soldier
has found he really has
no place to stand

Children gather round
lets do something for him now
all together, lets lend him a hand

The world has changed
his ship is upended (?)
and now he feels he has
no place to go.