[00:00.000] 作曲 : Paul M Shapera[00:39.365]Several hundred years before[00:41.184]A gambler and a monk embarked[00:43.414]On a long trek through the endless prairies of the North[00:47.617]They had a fierce debate[00:49.131]About God and chance and fate[00:51.169]and to resolve it agreed a game of cards indeed be played[00:55.606]The game went on all day[00:57.140]And through the next and next they played[00:59.369]And around them a shelter was built to shield the rain[01:03.117]A street around the shelter formed[01:05.321]Then a church, a house, a bar[01:07.637]And that is how the city of New Albion was born[01:31.502]New Albion today[01:33.138]With bustling streets, machines, cafes[01:35.396]And the nice, the wise, the eccentric and insane[01:39.654]The Mafia’s run by[01:41.082]A red haired dwarf with just one eye[01:43.320]Whose affairs he decides with a pair of silver dice[01:47.102]Over the Zeppelin Union Pilots[01:49.303]A castrati boss presides[01:51.332]And we hear his song each afternoon as he flies by[01:55.573]There’s prisons made of lead[01:57.276]And gargoyles of iron shreds[01:59.644]And Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead[02:03.912]Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead[02:23.575]The Lodge on Ashland Street[02:25.132]Is where the Alchemists Guild meets[02:27.359]And to join you have to craft a glass pearl from a young girl’s dream[02:31.657]A group of thieves they heard[02:33.112]Broke in the lodge to steal the pearls[02:35.135]But In the morning they were found there sitting staring unperturbed[02:39.623]The twilight fog they say[02:41.067]An aphrodisiac contains[02:43.308]Nonsense, but yet they copulate in doorways anyway[02:47.352]There’s inventors and inbred[02:49.023]In upper classes it’s been said[02:51.638]And Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead.[02:55.930]Annabelle McAlistair who’s raising up the dead[02:59.921]Clever little Annabella with her clever head[03:03.406]Oh, Annabelle McAlistair who's raising up the dead