Waiting For the Drop

Waiting for the drop

## Lyrics

***WAITING FOR THE DROP | SEATTLE (2018)***

***VISUALS***

**[KARNAK, Spoken]**

Tonight I speak of six teenagers who's tales ended abruptly on a rollercoaster in a small dying town in the middle of nowhere.

The former Saint Cassian Chamber Choir.

Robbed of their individuality in a mass tragedy, lumped together as our six saints by the national media

And my part in this story

I read all of the children's fortunes. I felt their hopes, thoughts, dreams knowing they would board the doomed rollercoaster and could tell them nothing

Family fun indeed

Let me whisk you away to happier times, moments before this when the Saint Cassian Chamber Choir was performing in a singing competition at Provincial Fair in Uranium City, Saskatchewan

After their concert, they came to see me, where upon I encouraged each and every one of them to ride The Cyclone

At 6:17, they bought their tickets

At 6:18, they boarded the ride

Fizzy, dizzy, young, their whole lives ahead of them

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

Secure all your items, strap in and hold on for the ride

And keep yours hands inside

Oh, it's about to begin

I'm bursting within

Climbing, rising higher, feel my face against the wind

Looking down at it all

At the ants caught their everyday strife

**[NOEL]**

My god, this ride is like my life, take me up and away

Above this small town cliché

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

To leave this place behind

Oh, I'm just waiting for the day

But at the top of the peak there's a moment where you're king of the world

And suddenly you're hurled over up and then down

Towards the carnival ground

Screaming, join the crazy, twisted symphony of sound

Oh, how I love to hear every kind of music

**[NOEL & MISCHA]**

Blasting in my ears

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

Guns and Roses, Chuck D., The Beatles, and the Calliope

**[NOEL & MISCHA]**

It smells like

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

Cotton candy

**[NOEL & MISCHA]**

Corn dogs and rancid beer

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

Coloured lights and people screaming what is real and what is dreaming

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

Take me higher

No, no

**[NOEL & MISCHA]**

I never wanna stop

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

Stomach churning, falling money. Kinda freaky, kinda funny

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

Tick-a-tick-a Tick-a-tick-a Tick-a-tick-a Tick-a-tick-a

Woah !

Just waiting for the drop

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

Oo-oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo-oo

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

Ahh

**[JANE]**

Ahh-ahh-ahh-ahh-ahhhh

**[OCEAN]**

Oh, into the spin and then something doesn't feel quite right

**[MISCHA]**

A blur of coloured light

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

Dizzy whirling around

Oh, where is the ground

**[NOEL]**

My heart is in my throat I feel my chest begin to pound

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

Oh, bright lights ahead And we're spinning and it's suddenly flat

**[CONSTANCE]**

What happened to this track

**[NOEL]**

Did they set it up right

**[MISCHA]**
That's why my knuckles are white

**[CHOIR, except RICKY]**

We're flying, floating forward That's a blinding yellow light

Oo-oo-oo-oo Oo-oo-oo-oo

Ahh

**[KARNAK, Spoken]**

At 6:19, this same rollercoaster's front axel would break

Causing it to derail at the apex of the loop-de-loop

Hurtling the children to their deaths

**[CHOIR]**

(ah-aaaaah)

**[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

**[CHOIR]**

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

Is 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

**[NOEL & MISCHA]**

All been spinning

**[CHOIR]**

Round and round and round

And round and round

Round and round

And round and round and round

And round and round

Round and round and-

**[NOEL, MISCHA & RICKY]**

Every kind of music

Blasts in my ears

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

All those coloured lights

Oh, oh, oh

**[NOEL, MISCHA & RICKY]**

Cotton candy and rancid bears

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

I gotta wear shades 'cause the future's so bright

And, oh

**[NOEL, MISCHA & RICKY]**

Oh, take me higher

No, no I never want to stop

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

Nobody's bringing me down

Down

**[NOEL, MISCHA & RICKY]**

Oh Take me up Right up to the top

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

I'll never put my feet on the ground

Oh

**[NOEL, MISCHA & RICKY]**

Oh And every kind of music

Blastin' in my ears

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

My life was about to start

Oh, oh, oh

**[NOEL, MISCHA & RICKY]**

Cotton candy and rancid beers

**[OCEAN & CONSTANCE]**

We never should have got into that rickety cart

Oh, no

**[NOEL, MISCHA & RICKY]**

Oh, take me higher

**[CHOIR]**

Wait

Are we still on the track

Uh-oh

Felt that drop

Now I know

Woah

Oh, we're never going back

Are we ever, ever going back

### Trivia

* The Choirs dancing in the second part of the song is a morbid representation of how they were flung around during the crash