A story about our favorite scientist in Horizon Zero Dawn. *Warning - contains spoilers for Horizon Zero Dawn.* The characters and story described here belong to Guerrilla Games and Sony Interactive Entertainment. I just had fun singing about it. This is a rough demo for February Album Writing Month 2022. I hope you enjoy it. Song by Natalie Rogers.
Chorus:
Dr. Elisabet Sobeck
Dr. Elisabet Sobeck
Build us some robots to help save the Earth
Build us some robots to help save the Earth
So we got a planet here with lots of people dyin'
'Cause the heat just keeps on risin' and risin'
So what do we do to prevent the calamity
Select the best and brightest of all of humanity
(Chorus)
In military machines there is money to be made
Faro jumps at the chance his company betrayed
Self-sustainin', self-replicatin', biomass consume
They hit a glitch and flip a switch that seals the planet's doom
(Chorus)
Sobeck is appalled by Faro's weaponized designs
Wanting only to improve the Earth, Sobeck resigns
Using every trick and resource she can get her hands on
Sobeck forces Faro to fund Project Zero Dawn
(Chorus)
Gaia to preside over nine AI entities
Each with a job to do, named after Greek deities
Minerva to force Faro Plague deactivation
Aether and Poseidon for detoxification
(Chorus)
Hephaestus made machines to help aid in the clean up
Apollo meant to educate would fail to show up
Demeter and Artemis restored flora and fauna
While human zygotes were tended by Eleuthia
(Chorus)
Hades was created to revert to a lifeless state
Any non-sustaining terraform Gaia did create
Sobeck gives her life in the face of calamity
In hopes of a future for all of humanity
Dr. Elisabet Sobeck
Dr. Elisabet Sobeck
Built us some robots to restore the Earth
She built us some robots to restore the Earth
@elainedimasi Mar 2022
The delight shining out of this is so much fun to see and hear! This is definitely high-filk-grade rhyming going on here, nice! I agree that the chorus is very catchy and compelling :-)
@potentialspam Feb 2022
Catchy melody you've got for the chorus. I liked the rhythm you hit around 2:30. I think it helps carry along all the info you're trying to get across, which is pretty ambitious :) Nice work!