The Brick Satellite, Part 2

**The Brick Satellite, Part 2** is the twelfth song from The Brick Satellite sung by Matt Dahan as the Narrator, Natalie Llerena as Margaret Cavendish, James Tolbert as Samuel Stratford, Mariah Rose Faith Casillas as Rose Stratford, Curt Mega as John Herschel, Jaime Lyn Beatty as Anna Hanover and David Zack as Charles T Coram with Amanda Walter and Jackie Franco as the chorus. It is the twelfth track on the soundtrack album and was written by Matt Dahan.

## Lyrics

**Chorus 1 (counterpoint):**

One million bricks, two million bricks

Three million bricks, four million bricks

Five million bricks, six million bricks

Seven million bricks, Eight million bricks

Nine million bricks, Ten million bricks

Eleven million bricks, twelve million bricks

Twelve million bricks

**Chorus 2 (counterpoint):**

We are building, we are building

We are building, we are building

Building, building

**Chorus 3:**

Satellite, Satellite

**Anna, spoken:**

We’ve built it!

**Company, spoken:**

(cheers)

**Charles, spoken:**

Isn’t this celebration a bit premature? It still needs to fly

**Herschel, spoken:**

Don’t be uncouth, Charles. Give us a speech Nova!

**Rose, Samuel, spoken:**

Speech! Speech!

**Anna, spoken:**

Oh, no, no, no, I couldn’t possibly…

**(sung)**
Twelve million, eight thousand, three hundred, fifteen
Total bricks in the satellite

**Company, spoken:**

(cheers)

**Anna, spoken:**

That’s right!

**(sung)**

Tonight wе celebrate, all of us

Arе set to leave a mark on the world

Thirty-six months spent in the Amazon

Never quitting, always marching on

Who’d have thought this town would become

One of my favorite places in the world

Samuel, thanks for hauling

All the clay and mortar

**Samuel, spoken:**

You’re welcome!

**Anna, sung:**

Rose, you made sure

That what we built was sound

**Rose, spoken:**

Anytime!

**Anna, sung:**

Margaret gave us hope

When we were short a million stones

And Hershey

You’re the greatest guy around

**Samuel, spoken:**

Can we talk about why she calls you ‘Hershey’ and you call her ‘Nova’?

**Herschel, spoken:**

No

**Anna, sung:**

My father was a proud man

He could follow a star

He had maps of every port in the Atlantic

And when he looks down from heaven

He will see where we are

And he will bless this team of magical mechanics

**All:**

We’ve built a brick satellite

And tomorrow it takes flight

**Anna, spoken:**

But tonight, we feast! Someone, get my tequila

**Rose, spoken:**

What’s tequila?

**Anna, spoken:**

Oh, this is going to be a great night

**Herschel, sung:**

If I had fireworks in a box

I’d plant every one of them on the docks

Fire them up and watch them explode

Colorfully, lighting up the skies of the world

**Rose:**

If I had a bottle of champagne here

I would crack it up against the sphere

And give a speech full of ten letter words

Poignantly, marking this event for the world

**Samuel:**

If I had a printing press

I’d write a novel

Then I’d send a copy to

The New York Sun

Thomas, spread the news

**Rose:**

And Benjamin, you too

You’re missing all the fun

**Anna:**

If I had a horn I’d write a symphony

Then perform it here to Mercury

Playing full houses on Mars and Jupiter

With an orchestra that’s out of this world

**Rose, spoken:**

Charles, take it away!

**Charles, sung:**

If I had the guts, I would call it quits

You can have the town, I don’t give two sh-

**Anna, spoken:**

Okay, okay, that’s enough. Give it up for our Governor, everyone!

**Chorus, spoken:**

(half-hearted cheers, someone coughs)

**Anna (counterpoint), sung:**

We’ve built a brick satellite

And tomorrow it takes flight

We put on a show, so bravo, bravo

Thank you, thank you, we’ll be here all night

**Chorus 1 (counterpoint):**

We are building, we are building

We are building, we are building

We are building, we are building

We are building

**Chorus 2 (counterpoint):**

One million bricks, two million bricks

Three million bricks, four million bricks

Five million bricks, six million bricks

Seven million bricks, Eight million bricks

Nine million bricks, Ten million bricks

Eleven million bricks, twelve million bricks

Twelve million bricks

**All:**

This is your brick satellite

**Herschel, spoken:**

I thought you would be happy, Charles. When we succeed, Township Number Nine will become a boomtown. Infrastructure, subsidies, the works

**Samuel, spoken:**

It might even get a name

**Charles, spoken:**

Fools. All of you… fools!

**Narrator, sung:**

Three months in South America

Nothing but trees and bricks

For as far as the eye can see

And the sound of celebration

Margaret Cavendish sits by a fire at dusk

Watching the flames flicker and fade

As the townspeople fill their cups

She lifted her eyes

She stared at the moon

**Rose:**

Maybe you’ll have your answers soon

**(spoken)**
Aren’t you going to join us, Margaret? Don’t make me get Anna, she’s brought something called ‘tequila’ to this party and it’s getting out of hand fast

**Margaret, spoken:**

What if the satellite doesn’t fly?

**(sung)**
We will design a better one

**Margaret:**

It would take years to construct

**Rose:**

Great things take time

Satellites, radiance

**Margaret:**

Trust

**Rose:**

I’d build twenty satellites

If that’s what it took

**Margaret:**

One would be enough

If the foundation was good

## External Links

* The Brick Satellite, Part 2 on iTunes
* The Brick Satellite, Part 2 on Spotify