John's Choice

**John's Choice** is the twenty-first song from The Great Moon Hoax sung by Matt Dahan as Narrator, Curt Mega as Benjamin Park and John Herschel, Tony Gonzalez as Chester Thomas, James Tolbert as Samuel Stratford, Mariah Rose Faith Casillas as Rose Stratford and the Chorus. It is the twenty-first track on the soundtrack album and was written by Matt Dahan.

## Lyrics

**Chorus:**

Planet Earth, eighteen thirty-five

Sir John Herschel stood before a crowd

Of reporters at the New York Sun

Watching, waiting, hanging by a thread

**Narrator:**

This was gonna be big

And the whole world knows it

Thomas paced anxiously

There is but one place to go from the top

He was glaring at Benjamin

Fully prepared for the hammer to drop

**Sun Employee 1:**

Sir John Herschel

Is it true?

**Thomas:**

Yes, I'm tellin’ you

Yes, I'm tellin’ you

**Benjamin:**

There is only one we can believe

He's right there

**Sun Employee 2:**

Sir John Herschel

Is it real?

**Thomas:**

Yes, I promise you

**Benjamin:**

No one’s asking you

This man has traveled many miles

Just to clear the air

**Sun Employees 3:**

Your journal saved our jobs

Provided us with hope

**Sun Employees 1-3:**

You did the world a service

When you built your telescope

**Benjamin, spoken:**

There's no telescope!

**Chorus, spoken:**

**(reacts)**

**Thomas, spoken:**

Benjamin!

**Benjamin:**

All of us have read

And some of us have seen

Astonishing things

That are hard to believe

But this isn't one of them

This ends now

Herschel, tell them how

**Chorus:**

Sir John Herschel

Is that true?

**Narrator:**

Rose and Samuel

Burst through the door

**Chorus:**

Sir John Herschel

Is that true?

**Rose, spoken:**

What's going on?

**Samuel, spoken:**

We're too late

**Benjamin, spoken:**

Say it, Herschel!

**Chorus:**

Sir John Herschel

Is that true?

Is that true?

Is that true?

**John:**

Yes, it’s true

There is no telescope

...Not anymore

**Rose, Samuel, Thomas and Benjamin, spoken:**

... What?

**John:**

My observatory perished in a fire

How I survived, nobody knows

**Benjamin, spoken:**

Herschel, what are you doing?

**John:**

Just a fortnight prior to the inferno

I sent a journal to my friends

Your colleagues, Samuel and Rose

**Chorus, spoken:**

**(reacts)**

**John:**

Yes, it’s true, I built a telescope

At the Cape of Good Hope

The grandest that any man had ever built

I pointed it at the moon

Our companion

**Chorus:**

Always there, watching us

From Eden to Edinburgh

As we grow

**John:**

As she glows

I put my eye to the lens

I put my findings in pen

I saw what I saw

And now I'm giving it to you

Here's a headline

Every word you read was true

**Chorus, spoken:**

**(cheers)**

**Benjamin, spoken:**

Wait, wait, stop! He’s lying! Crystal pyramids, lunar buffalo, and bat-people? How are you actually believing this?

**(sung)**

It’s a hoax

One big hoax

**Thomas, spoken:**

Shut up, you idiot! You're fired!

**Benjamin, spoken:**

You can’t do that! The truth will come out

One day, and when it does-

**Rose, spoken:**

Hey, Benjamin!

**Benjamin, spoken:**

What? **(thump)**

**Narrator:**

Rose Stratford knocked Benjamin out

With a printing press plate

**Samuel:**

Remind me not to piss you off

**Rose, spoken:**

**(laughing)** That felt great!

**Chorus:**

Nothing can stop the Sun

We just keep shining from above, shout it

Out from the top of your lungs

Extra, extra, read all about it

Nothing can stop the Sun

Breaking news, we're breaking through, shout it

Out from the top of your lungs

Extra, extra, read all about it

**Narrator:**

When the working day was done

Tomorrow's paper set to run

Chester Thomas felt disconnected

**Thomas:**

This is a nightmare

Without weekly Discoveries

We'll go broke, and then I'll be

Booted from the industry

Rose, Samuel, John

Tell me, how will I go on?

**Rose**

Hm...

Why not add a little bit of fiction?

**Samuel:**

Why not add a little bit of style?

**Rose**

Why not add a little bit of swagger?

**John:**

Why not add adventure to the pile?

**Rose**

Great Astronomical Discoveries

Was never meant to be eternal

**Samuel:**

Readers will move on

You will find another journal

**Thomas, spoken:**

But how?

**(sung)**

How do I follow up

People who live on the moon?

**Rose**

Publish news and fiction side by side

**Samuel:**

Let the audience be your guide

**Thomas:**

I guess it wouldn't hurt to try

## External Links

* John's Choice on iTunes
* John's Choice on Spotify