Newton's Second Law

**Newton's Second Law** is the sixteenth song from The Brick Satellite sung by 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, Matt Dahan as the Narrator with Amanda Walter and Jackie Franco as the chorus. It is the sixteenth track on the soundtrack album and was written by Matt Dahan.

## Lyrics

**Narrator:**

Margaret rises to her feet

And points upriver

A ship approaches

**Samuel, spoken:**

Who’s that?

**Margaret, spoken:**

I can’t tell

**Narrator, sung:**

Looking down the coast

Anna squints her eyes

A ship approaches

**Anna, spoken:**

There are a lot of people on that boat

**Narrator, sung:**

Coming into focus

Slicing upriver

A ship approaches

**Samuel, spoken:**

I don’t like this

**Margaret, spoken:**

Neither do I

**Narrator, sung:**

Margaret yells to her friends

Anna, Rose, and John

A ship approaches

**Rose, spoken:**

They’re shooting at us!

**Herschel, spoken:**

We’re under attack!

**Narrator, sung:**

Bullets rip through the jungle

Leaving devastation all around

**Chorus:**

Bracing, bracing

**Narrator:**

People flеd Township Number Nine

Leaving it a ghost town

**Chorus:**

Racing, racing

**Narrator:**

Running for covеr

Hiding back behind the sphere

**Narrator, Chorus:**

They’ll destroy the satellite if they get here

**Anna:**

We have to launch

**Herschel:**

We have no chance

**Rose:**

Then how do we defend her

**Herschel:**

We have to leave

**Anna:**

This can’t end now, not like this

**Charles, spoken:**

Surrender

**Narrator, sung:**

Charles has a gun in his hand

**Charles, spoken:**

Anna, are you speechless? This is a first

**Narrator, sung:**

This has gone exactly as he planned

**Charles, spoken:**

These mercenaries have orders to destroy the sphere and the flywheels as soon as they dock

**Herschel, spoken:**

You bastard

**Charles, sung:**

Here

I think I’ll level every inch of land

And have a harvest planted by the spring

Here

Rows and rows of sugarcane

Soon I will be living like a king

Here

A place that’s worthy of my work

Appropriately titled…

‘Charlestown’

Here

With no sign of the scientists

It’s a shame that their remains were never found

**Anna, spoken:**

You’re doing this for sugarcane?

**Charles, spoken:**

Not just for sugarcane. I’m also doing this because I don’t like you. Sir John, Miss Hanover - you will be mourned. What a tragic accident

**Anna, spoken:**

We had a good run, Hershey

**Herschel, spoken:**

It’s been a privilege, Nova. And Rose, I-

Where’d she go?

**Narrator, sung:**

Rose Stratford knocked Charles out

With her printing press plate

**Herschel, spoken:**

You actually brought the plate with you?

**Rose, spoken:**

Never underestimate the power of the press

**Narrator, sung:**

The bricks halt every bullet

But the enemy has arrived

They’ve landed at the dock

And now there’s no place left to hide

**Herschel:**

We cannot make the treeline

**Anna:**

We’ve run out of time

**Margaret:**

Anna!

**Samuel:**

Rose!

**Margaret:**

Herschel!

**Margaret, Samuel:**

Climb!!

**Narrator:**

A ladder to the top of the satellite

Two hundred feet high

The Sagitta was a fortress

They could take shelter inside

**Herschel, spoken:**

But we’ll be trapped-

**Rose, spoken:**

I’ll take my chances. Come on!

**Narrator, sung:**

Rose takes Herschel’s hand

**Rose, spoken:**

Aren’t you glad you asked me to come to South America with you?

**Herschel, spoken:**

Yes

**Rose, spoken:**

Good. Then move your ass!

**Narrator, sung:**

Rose leads the way

Up the side of the satellite

**Chorus:**

Bracing, bracing

**Narrator:**

Bullets sprayed from below

Barely missing their marks

**Chorus:**

Bracing, bracing

**Narrator:**

They reached the summit

**Narrator, Chorus:**

Racing, racing

They jumped inside

Closed the hatch, then dark

**Samuel, spoken:**

I just locked the hatch, we’re safe

**Rose, spoken:**

I can’t see you, Samuel

**Anna, spoken:**

Maybe we can wait them out, someone will get help-

**Herschel, spoken:**

We’re hundreds of miles from the nearest township. I’m afraid we’re on our own

**Samuel, spoken:**

Margaret? Margaret, are you alright? I can’t see you!

**Narrator, sung:**

Margaret started to glow

Margaret started to cry

Margaret closed her fists

Margaret closed her eyes

**Margaret:**

Don’t be scared of the dark…

**Narrator:**

The sphere began to shake

The ramp began to quake

Then, a heavy thud

**Anna, spoken:**

The satellite is free!

**Narrator, sung:**

The earth began to rumble

The sphere began to tumble

Rolling down the ramp

**Herschel, spoken:**

Hold onto something!

**Narrator, sung:**

The flywheels ran steady

The slingshot was ready

Now nothing could make them yield

**Rose, Samuel:**

Each word we write sets a brick

And we built a satellite

**Narrator, Chorus:**

Four, three, two, one

The satellite hit the wheels, then-

**All:**

Ahhh!

## External Links

* Newton's Second Law on iTunes
* Newton's Second Law on Spotify