Fall Fair Suite

**"Fall Fair Suite"** was the second song featured in *Ride the Cyclone* as an intro song, but was later replaced by Uranium Suite in the Atlanta 2019 production, the World Premiere Cast Recording, and all productions onwards.

## Lyrics

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

When the Fall Fair comes to towwwn

**Ocean/Constance:**

Oh, step right up

It's good clean fun

All the games and rides

A little something for everyone

When the Fall Fair comes to town!

**Noel/Mischa:**

When the Fall Fair comes to town!

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

(Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo din day)

**Karnak [*spoken*]:**

Tonight, my apology, a eulogy my way of a concert

The final concert of the now deceased Saint Cassian Chamber Choir

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

When the Fall Fair comes-

Fall Fair comes-

Fall Fair comes-

Fall Fair, Fall Fair, Fall Fair, Fall Fair. . .

When the fall's not fair

This ride goes where?

*Aah*

AAH

**Karnak [*spoken*]:**

Tonight, I wish to give them the chance to express not what they were perceived to be, but what they dreamt they were

Tonight, we shall raise a middle finger to that most ruthless adjudicator called time

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la

**Ocean:**

Something doesn't feel quite right

**Constance:**

A blur of coloured spinning light

**Ocean/Constance:**

My heart is racing, pounding in my ears

**Mischa:**

Dizzy tingling's spinning 'round

Oh, where's the sky and where's the ground?

**Noel:**

The rabbit comes and then he disappears

**Ocean/Constance:**

Total darkness, spinning black

**Mischa/Noel:**

Pushing forward, pulling back

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

Falling through the air

I wonder

How

Can

This

Be

Fair?

Aah-aah-aah-aaah

*Ahhhhhh*

**Jane Doe:**

*Ahhhhhhhhhhhh*

**Ocean:**

What a load of freaking junk!

That crusty carnie, clearly drunk!

Sue that fair for everything they've got!

**Noel:**

What's the point of even suing?

Dead, we're done! There's no undoing!

Nothing left to do except to rot!

**Mischa:**

Sex? Oh God, why did I wait?

**Ocean:**

Now I'll never graduate!

**Constance:**

I hope I wiped my browser history clean!

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

Why did I even go to class?

Algebra 12, kiss my ass!

**Mischa:**

Now I know what "YOLO" really means!

**Ocean:**

Carpe diem!

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

What a lovely theme

**Noel:**

C'est la vie!

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

Life is just a dreeeaam!

Just a dream!

And then you're sailing through space

You don't know up from down

And you feel a little strange

From all that spinning round

And everything you loved

And everything you dreamed

And everything you feared

And everything that seems so

Oh so terrifying

It's far behind on the ground

Like our far-from-the-city-little-itty-bitty-pretty hometown

Just a teeny tiny dot on a wee blue ball

And we've all been spinning

**Mischa/Noel:**

All been spinning

**Ocean/Constance:**

Been spinning

**Mischa/Noel/Constance:**

Round and round and round

And round and round

Round and round

**Ocean [*spoken*]:**

Had a strange feeling from the start!

Bought our tickets, stood in line, a rickety cart

*I did not feel safe at all*

Tick-a tick-a heard the crack!

**Choir [*except Ricky*]:**

Down the drop now I know we're never going back!

But what really happens?

What really happens after?

The, the, the, the

The, the, the, the

Drop

## Trivia

* The Choir singing at the end of the song is theorized to represent their screams as the Cyclone crashes.
* The title includes the use of puns. “Fall” refers to the season of Autumn, but also to the fall that caused the deaths of the St. Cassian Choir. “Fair” refers to a recreational fair, but is used as a means of saying that they died unfairly.
* The lyric "far-from-the-city-little-itty-bitty-pretty hometown" is similar to traditional choir warm-ups, like "mommy made me mash my M&Ms", or "many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight, mighty nice".
* In the choreography for this song, Ricky appears to be the only one to hear Jane's screams.

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