Playlist Notes: Novas 3.4: A Million Grains Of Sand

(previously in Program Twelve: Novas 2.9)

(previously in story time: Novas 5.5 Act 1)

(previously in story time: Novas 3.3)

It is 1987. Jack made it back to Earth. And now he knows Susan -whatever she is now – is still alive. But in the ruins of the Company’s fall, the world needs a miracle that might be beyond either of them…

BEGIN PROGRAM TWELVE MODULE FOUR.

What a beautifully dangerous ride…

Novas 3.4: A Million Grains Of Sand

What a beautiful collision. Things that go bump in the night…

01 Bic Runga – Beautiful Collision (2002, New Zealand) ENERGY BEING SUSAN

What a beautiful collision
Things that go bump in the night
With such beautiful precision
Fate could create you and I

Do you know what it means 
to abandon your dreams?
To leave with the storms rolling by?
How the clouds on this day
come to take you away
Till you're gone, gone
far away from me

Beautiful, beautiful night
What a beautifully dangerous ride
What a beautiful day
we could hardly complain about
what's going on in the sky

What a beautiful collision
Things that go bump in the night
With such beautiful precision
Fate could create you and I

Do you know what it means 
to abandon your dreams?
To leave with the storms rolling by?
How the clouds on this day
come to take you away
Till you're gone, gone
far away from me

Beautiful, beautiful night
What a beautifully dangerous ride
What a beautiful day
we could hardly complain about
what's going on in the sky

Move with the strangers 
that pass through your days
If someone by chance
should call out your name
When you're lost in the places
you don't care to stay
A blinding romance
to blow you away

Their desperate flight from the Corporate satellite to activate the Probe had ended in a cloud of fire. But Susan was changed into something else…

I’ve always loved this song.

02 Train – Drops of Jupiter (2001, USA) JACK (ON EARTH)

Now that she's back in the atmosphere
With drops of Jupiter in her hair, yeah-yeah
She acts like summer and walks like rain
Reminds me that there's time to change, yeah-yeah
Since the return from her stay on the moon
She listens like spring and she talks like June, yeah-yeah

But tell me
Did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the Milky Way
To see the lights all faded
And that Heaven is overrated?
Tell me
Did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar?
And did you miss me
While you were looking for yourself out there?

Now that she's back from that soul vacation
Tracing her way through the constellations, yeah-yeah
She checks out Mozart while she does tae-bo
Reminds me that there's room to grow, yeah-yeah
Now that she's back in the atmosphere
I'm afraid that she might think of me as

Plain old Jane
Wrote a song about a man
Who was too afraid to fly
So he never did land

But tell me
Did the wind sweep you off your feet?
Did you finally get the chance 
To dance along the light of day
And head back toward the Milky Way?
Tell me
Did Venus blow your mind?
Was it everything you wanted to find?
And did you miss me
While you were looking for yourself out there?

Can you imagine
No love, pride,
deep fried chicken
Your best friend always sticking up for you
Even when I know you're wrong
Can you imagine
No first dance,
freeze-dried, romance
Five-hour phone conversation
The best soy latte that you ever had
And me

But tell me
Did the wind sweep you off your feet?
Did you finally get the chance 
To dance along the light of day
And head back toward the Milky Way?
But tell me
Did you sail across the sun?
Did you make it to the Milky Way
To see the lights all faded
And that Heaven is overrated?
Tell me
Did you fall for a shooting star
One without a permanent scar?
And did you miss me
While you were looking for yourself?

Na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na

And did you finally get the chance
To dance along the light of day?

Na-na-na-na-na-na
Na-na-na-na-na-na

And did you fall for a shooting star
Fall for a shooting star?
And are you lonely
Looking for yourself out there?

Jack is still trying to come to terms with their new relationship.

03 Sarah Maclachlan – World on Fire (2003, Canada) ENERGY BEING SUSAN

Hearts are worn in these dark ages
You're not alone in this story's pages
The light has fallen amongst the living and the dying
And I'm trying to hold it in
Yeah I'm trying to hold it in

The world's on fire, it's more than I can handle
Tap into the water, try to bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table, bring what I am able

I watch the heavens but I find no calling
Something I can do to change what's comin'
Stay close to me while the sky is falling
Don't wanna be left alone
Don't wanna be alone

The world's on fire, it's more than I can handle
Tap into the water, try to bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table, bring what I am able

Hearts break, hearts mend
Love still hurts
Visions clash, planes crash
Still there's talk of
Saving souls
Still the cold
Is closing in on us

We part the veil on our killer sun
Stray from the straight line on this short run
The more we take the less we become
The fortune of one man means less for some

The world's on fire, it's more than I can handle
Tap into the water, try to bring my share
Try to bring more, more than I can handle
Bring it to the table, bring what I am able

Susan watches from the stratosphere as the world spirals into crisis.

04 Collective Soul – Shine (1993, USA) JACK

Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
What will I find?

Lay me on the ground 
And fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
What will I find?

Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down

Love is in the water
Love is in the air
Show me where to look
Tell me will love be there
Will love be there?

Teach me how to speak
Teach me how to share
Teach me where to go
Tell me will love be there
Will love be there?

Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down

Give me a word
Give me a sign
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
What will I find?

Lay me on the ground 
And fly me in the sky
Show me where to look
Tell me what will I find
What will I find?

Yeah
Yeah
Yeah

Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down
Woah, heaven let your light shine down

I'm gonna let it shine
I'm gonna let it shine
Heaven's little light gonna shine on me
Hey, girl
Hey, girl
Heaven's little light gonna shine on me
Shine, shine on me, yeah
Shine, come on and shine

Jack searches for inspiration.

05 Tom Tom Club – Lorelei (1982, USA) ENERGY BEING SUSAN

Lorelei

Maybe you'd like a little melody
It's not the words that move me

Lorelei
Lorelei
Lorelei

Maybe you'd like a lullaby
Now I can't remember why

Lorelei
Lorelei
Lorelei

Intuition's leading us
Where I don't know yet

Lorelei
Lorelei

Something's happening
Hard to place it
Hard to hide it

Lorelei
Lorelei

What is happening I'm not sure
I guess you know it

Lorelei
Lorelei

Deep in the jungle of thought
There comes a clearing
And in the clearing
There is a pool

The pool is deep
The water cool
This is the thought
The thought is you

Lorelei
Lorelei
Lorelei

Intuition's leading us
Where I don't know yet

Lorelei
Lorelei

Something's happening
Hard to place it
Hard to hide it

Lorelei
Lorelei

What is happening I'm not sure
I guess you know it

Lorelei
Lorelei

Across the wasted plain
Across the twisted deeps
Beyond the coloured lights
The mountain looms

The air is thin
The door within
The sea of light
The light is you

Lorelei
Lorelei
Lorelei
Lorelei
Lorelei

Susan has an idea.

06 Exchange – Where The Truth Lies (1991, Canada) JACK

A whisper in my ear
A voice so strong and clear
Upon this beach I see
A million grains of sand

And I believe we are destiny
Bound to survive against all odds

Out where the truth lies
I will follow
Out beyond this barren surround
I cry without a sound
Out where the truth lies
I will follow my eyes
Into the sun

Sometimes I lie awake
I dream of everyone
Who walked the path I take
Or ran beneath the sun

And I believe it's my destiny
Bound to survive against all odds

Out where the truth lies
I will follow
Out beyond this barren surround
I cry without a sound
Out where the truth lies
I will follow my eyes
Into the sun

And I believe we are destiny
Bound to survive against all odds

Out where the truth lies
I will follow
Out beyond this barren surround
I cry without a sound
Out where the truth lies
I will follow my eyes
Into the sun

Jack searches in the deserts of Australia.

This song – one of the few with lyrics from Canadian band Exchange – is the theme to the animated “The Legend of Prince Valiant” TV show.

07 Exchange – Eleven Eleven (2012, Canada)

Instrumental

08 Bliss – A Hundred Thousand Angels (2001, England) THE ARTIFACT

Do you hear me calling you?
The voice of a mother and a father and a child
Would you recognise the truth?
Do you feel the love that's falling from my eyes?

Take just a minute
Come and rest here by my side
Let me tell you your own story
Let me walk you through your lives

Only a second
That's all it takes to realise
There's a hundred thousand angels by your side
There's a hundred thousand angels by your side

Do you hear me talk to you?
I whisper through doorways and pathways of your mind
Clearly, like the morning dew
I'm fresh from my journey 'cross an ocean of blue

Take just a minute
Come and rest here by my side
Let me tell you your own story
Let me walk you through your lives

Only a second
That's all it takes to realise
There's a hundred thousand angels by your side
There's a hundred thousand angels here tonight

Jack finds an Artifact from the same Precursor civilization who built the Probe.

09 Robert Plant – Shine It All Around (2005, England) JACK

This is the land where I live
Paint it all over golden
And take a little sunshine, spread it all around
This is the love that I give
These are the arms for the holdin'
Turn on your love-light, shine it all around
Turn on your love-light, shine it all around

Oh, shine it all around
Yeah yeah now
Oh, shine it all around

These are the times of my life
Bright, strong, and golden
And this is the way that I choose when the deal goes down
And this is the world that I love
Painted all over trouble
Take a little sunshine
Shine it all around

Send a little sign now
Spread it all around now
Shine it all around now
When the deal goes down now

Yeah yeah now
Oh, shine it all around

This is the heart of the man
And this is the heart of the matter
Break a little bread now
Spread it all around
Come on
Break a little bread now
All around

Oh, shine it all around
Yeah yeah now
Oh, shine it all around

Oh, shine it all around
Yeah yeah now
Oh, shine it all around

Send a little sign now
Spread it all around now
Shine it all around now
When the deal goes down now

Jack returns to the Revolution with a new plan.

10 Heather Nova – Doubled Up (1994, Bermuda) ENERGY BEING SUSAN

I saw a mountain from higher above
I held your hand
And I was doubled up in love

Big sky above me
A river inside me
And I'm doubled up in love

You're watching your step
But you fall as you're walking
You take it in stride, but still
You fall as you're walking

Big sky above me
A river inside me
And I'm doubled up in love

Feels good
It feels like poetry
Don't ask me to explain
It just feels good
Like poetry
Doubled up again

Look at the sky
Lift off like an aeroplane
And watch the ground come up to meet you

Big sky above me
A river inside me
And I'm doubled up in love

Feels good
It feels like poetry
Don't ask me to explain
It just feels good
Like poetry
Doubled up again

Big sky above me
A river inside me
And I'm doubled up in love

Feels good
It feels like poetry
Don't ask me to explain
It just feels good
Like poetry
Doubled up again

Big sky above me
A river inside me
Big sky above me
A river inside
And I'm doubled up in love

Susan is ready to begin.

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