Silas The Commander (song)

Silas The Commander is the opening song of Charlotte, Starbound, which recaps his life as told by both his friends, enemies, and lovers. It is also a parody of the song Alexander Hamilton from Hamilton.

## Original Lyrics

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Reason: Swearing

## Parodied Lyrics

**Miles:** How does an alien

Ninja

Son of a miner

of uranium

Dropped in the middle of a

Forsaken plain

In Jessalium by providence impoverished in squalor

Grow up to be a fighter and a scholar?

**Aggro:** My hard fighting

Leader without a father

Got a lot father

By working a lot harder

By being a self-starter

By fourteen

People looked and said he’s smarter

**Malison:** And every day while aliens were being judged and riding away

To a new place

He struggled and kept his guard up

Inside, he was longing to be able to join them

The brother was ready to beg, steal, borrow or barter

**Zeeb:** Then the explosion came

And devastation reigned

Our man saw his future drip, dripping down the drain

Put a pencil to his temple

Connected it to his brain

And he wrote his first refrain, a testament to his pain

**Miles:** Word got around, they said this kid is insane, man

Took a ebook pamphlet just to send him to the Earth land

Get your education don’t forget from whence you came

And the world’s gonna know your name, what’s your name man?

**Silas:** Silas the commander.

My name is Silas the commander

And there’s a million things I haven’t done

But just you wait, just you wait

**Charlotte & Fyrenia:** When he was ten his father went

In the mines

It's not fine yeah

Two years then it blew up just at dinnertime

Some dead

Silas in his room sad

Watin’ for his dad

**All (whispering):** And some got better but his father bit bad.

**Commander Copernicus:** Stayed there with his mom, his mom caught grief and then she died

Left him with nothing but ruined pride

Something new inside

A voice saying

**All:** Silas, you gotta fend for yourself

**Commander Copernicus:** He started retreating and reading every treatise on the shelf…

**Fyrenia:** There would’ve been nothing left to do for someone less astute

He would’ve been dead or destitute without a cent of restitution

Started working

Clerking for his late father’s company board

Trading uranium and minerals and all the things he can’t afford

**All:** Scamming

**Fyrenia:** For every ebook he can get his hands on

**All:** Plannin’

**Fyrenia:** For the future

See him now as he stands

On the bow of a ship

Headin’ for the new land

With the TTA you can be a new man

**All:** With our group you can be a new man **Silas:** Just you wait

With our group you can be a new man Just you wait

With our group

Our group

**Silas:** Just you wait!

**All:** Silas the commander! (Silas the commander)

We are waiting in the wings for you (waiting in the wings for you)

You could never back down

You never learned to take your

Time!

Oh, Silas the commander (Silas the commander)

When we fight against you

Will they know what you overcame?

Will they know you rewrote the game?

The world

Will never be the same, oh

**Fyrenia**: The ship is in the harbor now, see if you can spot him All: Just you wait!

Another immigrant comin’ up from the bottom Just you wait!

His enemies destroyed his work and then we all forgot him!

**Aggro & Zeeb:** We, fought with him

**Malison:** Me, I worked for him

**Commander Copernicus:** Me, I doubted him

**Loretta, Charlotte, & Fyrenia:** Me, I loved him

**Miles:** And me? I’m the huge fool that left him. (left him, left him)

**All:** There’s a million things I haven’t done

But just you wait!

**Miles:** What’s your name, man?

**All:** Silas the commander!