One Bad

**One Bad** is the ninth 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 ninth track on the soundtrack album and was written by Matt Dahan.

## Lyrics

**Narrator:**

Two months in South America

Nothing but the Amazon

For as far as the eye can see

And the sound of building

Samuel Stratford

Stands on the sphere at noon

Spreading the mortar, he has his orders

The rains will be coming soon

**Samuel:**

Each word we write sets a brick

And we’re building a satellite

**Narrator:**

The news spread fast

That the sphere was back

To laborers all around the nation

They made the haul down

And soon that small town

More than doubled in population

People to dig the clay (check)

People to work the mill (check)

People to keep construction

Up and running until…

One bad thought

Can spoil the mood

One bad thing

Then bad attitude

One bad wheel

Can slow things to a crawl

One bad word

Can spoil the day

One bad ingredient

Can ruin the clay

One bad brick

Can obliterate the wall

**Margaret, spoken:**

Wait! Let me see that brick, Samuel

**Samuel, spoken:**

What’s the matter, Margaret?

**Margaret, spoken:**

The batch that just came out of the mill are all crumbling. Too much lime in the clay. Again

**Samuel, spoken:**

We’re using the same materials every day. I don’t understand how some batches are perfect and others-

**Margaret, spoken:**

I’m going to run some tests

**Samuel, spoken:**

Before you leave, can I just tell you that-

**Margaret, spoken:**

Samuel, not now. Just be careful

**Samuel, spoken:**

Yeah

**Narrator, sung:**

One bad cloud

Can worsen the weather

One bad gust

Can loosen the tether

One bad apple

Per bunch can spoil them all

One bad taste

Can spoil the meal

One bad step

And you’re on your heels

One bad brick

Can obliterate the wall

**Rose, spoken:**

John, Anna - I just got back from the east flywheel. There are fractures in the superstructure forty feet above ground

**Herschel, spoken:**

Forty feet? If the outer casing were to shatter at that height-

**Anna, spoken:**

The entire flywheel would collapse

**Rose, spoken:**

I don’t want this to sound paranoid, but the fractures are unnatural

**Anna, spoken:**

What do you mean?

**Rose, spoken:**

They’re inconsistent with stress fractures. They were done with a tool

**Chorus, sung:**

Two hundred thousand bricks

**Anna:**

A big first step

But we have a schedule to keep

**Chorus:**

Four hundred thousand bricks

**Samuel:**

Check every one

Consecutive days with no sleep

**Chorus:**

Six hundred thousand bricks

**Margaret:**

Tunnel vision

We can see the light

**Chorus:**

Eight hundred thousand bricks

**Rose:**

We’re almost there

But each day is a fight

**Herschel, spoken:**

Charles, Margaret just completed her chemical tests on the bad bricks and found an excess of lime

**Charles, spoken:**

Lime is perfectly normal in bricks, John

**Herschel, spoken:**

Not this much. Someone has been contaminating them. Between this and the damage to the flywheel towers - we have a saboteur

**Charles, spoken:**

Everything and everyone has been carefully curated for your ‘experiment’, how could there possibly be subterfuge?

**Herschel, spoken:**

You’re the administrator of the township. You have to do something-

**Charles, spoken:**

I was put in charge by King William IV. Not you

**Narrator sung:**

One bad drip

Can lead to rust

One bad lie

Can shatter trust

One bad push

Can turn into a brawl

One bad break

Can take its toll

One bad spark

Can lose control

One bad brick

Can obliterate the wall

One bad brick

Can obliterate the wall

## External Links

* One Bad on iTunes
* One Bad on Spotify