Feb 2022 acoustic-one-take
This song almost certainly shares a title with several works of Star Wars fanfic.
“Oh, my Emperor, I have found a way
To magnify your power day by day.
Have you ever thought what a king might do
If there where two of him, or twenty-two?
See a legion all with a single mind
Each driven by your intellect divine
Hear the people’s cheers, hear your rivals’ moans
As they behold the Emperor’s new clones.”
So declared the rogue bio-scientist
To Number One upon her client list.
She succeeded in her audacious pitch
For Emperors are vain and filthy rich.
In a castle lost deep within the woods
She stopped at nothing to produce the goods
Many pits were filled with the failures’ bones,
The off-cuts from the Emperor’s new clones.
How she made the clones, no-one really knows
Historians have even come to blows.
Were they really cloned from the Emperor?
Did some grow fifteen legs and silky fur?
Or were prisoners told that they could walk free
Then brainwashed, given plastic surgery
To become the man on the Peacock Throne,
The model for the Emperor’s new clones?
Soon a thousand men with their Sovereign’s face
Were strutting ‘round as though they owned the place
They blew half the budget on fancy cars
And knocked each other’s front teeth out in bars.
Clashing royal edicts, competing laws,
The Empire torn apart by civil wars
Hear his rival’s laughs, hear the people’s groans
As they behold the Emperor’s new clones.
@ambroise Feb 2022
I love the story and how you put. The only trouble is it reminded me of the current french presidency election. Brrr.
@davidsnyder Feb 2022
Genius.
LOVE the lyrics.
Profound.
And SO Timely.
@woodhornhank Feb 2022
I was not expecting to hear folk ballad type of music ,but i like nice surprises !
Great lyrics nicely delivered. I don`t know if it was intentional,but there is nice anachronism.
@robynmackenzie Feb 2022
A fantastic narrative with many twists and turns. I like the folk ballad feel. The rhymes are super clever! I like this.