Paul Shapera
Reunion
[Lloyd]
And so Jacqueline and Thomas step out into a city lain to waste. Everyone in sight is swaying mindlessly to the hypnotic song of the dead
The only sane people they find are Constance and her father John who look happy and serene. Having not seen each other in years, John and Jackie, brother and sister reunite

[John]
We never call on birthdays

[Jackie]
The haze and roads forgotten
The lost left, wave behind

[John]
I know, I know we were never all that close
We never talked, just pleasantries and lines

[Jackie]
We never call on birthdays
You lost her

[John]
You lost her

[Jackie]
And I’m so sorry

[John]
I’m so sorry
The hole goes
[Jackie]
So far down

[John]
It’s true, it’s true, you had a language I never knew

[Jackie]
You were always kind, when it really counts

[John]
We never call on birthdays

[Jackie]
You’re there at the beginning

[John]
Then gone as, as we live our lives

[Jackie]
I know, I know, I couldn’t be what you needed most

[John]
You were always kind in the darkest of times

[Jackie and John]
We never call on birthdays
[Thomas]
Constance, I am truly glad we found you

[Constance]
I’m glad they let you go, they were wrong
Everyone’s obsessed with control and dominance

[Thomas]
How have you survived up here so long?

[Constance]
We walked and we talked and we
We walked my father and me

[Thomas]
You strolled about in this in this apocalypse?

[Constance]
We walked and we talked so long

[Jackie and John]
We never call on birthdays

[Thomas]
Why haven’t you succumbed to this song?
[Constance]
It’s like a noisy tale with hooks and dreams
In which I do not care to be

[John]
The city is lost, it’s time to retreat

[Jackie]
Because we’ve been possessed, we are immune

[Jackie, (John), Thomas]
John’s been mutilated, reconstructed so he’s safe, but
(Soon all will succumb to this plague you’ve unleashed)
Constance there’s no reason why for you
There’s something in your eye, Run
(At least we’re together, now that it’s done)
Something happened this last night
Run and taste the rain
That changed you in some way I cannot tell
Run from mistakes you've made
But I have doomed them all Run
(The only thing for us, we all now must run)
And I have caused this city’s fall
Run away
And all that’s left to do is run

[Possessed]
Dollay, oh oh, we come, dollay

[Constance]
We will not be running

[Possessed]
Dollay, oh oh, we come, dollay

[Thomas]
Constance, don’t go near them. If you hear you’ll disappear then

[Possessed]
Dollay, oh oh, we come, dollay

[Constance]
Stories within stories
Shh, listen