What’s a rock opera without a libretto? Thumb through your program for insight into the mysterious world of The American Opera.
Each track is accompanied by a photo of the starring character(s).
American Opera
Take me back, back, back
Take me back, back, back
To the place I love
When It felt like home
Now I won’t, no I won’t
Now I won’t, no I wont
Now I won’t back down
I’ll stand my ground
Because you’re here
Hear my voice
Keep me close
For tonight hold me tight
It’s back, back, back
To the way it was
Can’t believe I’d run
From where I come from
Will she want me? Will she?
This America
Here, yeah, yeah
Since you came around
You helped me reclaim my ground
Still Im’a leave, they’ll mourn, oh!
Don’t wage another Civil War
Goin’ back, back, back
Goin’ back, back, back
To the place I love
It’s where I belong
All the way, all the way,
All the way, all the way
Words and music by Kin Capa
Sum1
I want someone to love me and
I want someone to love
All my life anticipating
Without pain
Mama said Sum-1
Am I sane? Or
Am I mad, gun?
There’s no one to remain
Faithful to
Faithful to her
Faithful to her
Faithful-2
I want the strength that will save me and
I want the child we “coo baby”
Yet all night long you kept me waiting
There’s the pain
Papa said Sum-1
All my hate, oh!
All my love, girl
There’s no one to remain
Faithful to
Faithful to her
Faithful to her
Faithful-2
Someone to watch over me
When I’m bound to come down
Someone take all my love
I’ve got someone to hurt me and
I’ve got the one who’ll desert me and
It’s my life can’t keep wasting
This ol’ pain, oh!
Words and music by Kin Capa
Underture (Prison Suit)
War!
War!
Wa-a-a-r!
War!
Words and music by Kin Capa
Rootz Generation
Tree Lover
All fall – we fall forever and ever,
Yet always be together
Tree Lover
Our leaves don’t fall like feathers
Together even if there’s stormy weather
Climb inclined to sky
Though blind to the grind
We fight underground
To the past we’re bound
To believe eternally
Let go my roots
Above me – you!
Tree Lover
It treats you like no other
In summer, in winter – cut resistant
Tree Lover
All fall – we fall forever and ever
Yet always be together
Climb inclined to sky
Though blind to the grind
We fight underground
To the past we’re bound
To be eternally
Let go my roots
Above me – you!
It could be sweeter than honey
It could be greener than money
But how’s your Ma’?
What ails your Pa’?
Who’ll miss the kids that don’t belong?
The roots that no one knows – you!
Words and music by Kin Capa
Middleture (Tonite Suite)
To-ni-ni-night
To-ni-ni-night
To-ni-ni-night
To-ni-ni-night
The time is right
To ni-ni-night
To ni-ni-night
Tonight
Mmm Hmm
Mmm Hmm
Hush little child
Rush little child
Was tame now wild
Once tame now wild
Your whisper-shout
The word is out
Ain’t it lethal
You’re not legal
Too young to die
Too young to die
Whatcha gonna try tonight?
To-ni-ni-night
To-ni-ni-night
To-ni-ni-night
To ni-ni-night
To ni-ni-night
No more to fight
To ni-ni-night
To ni-ni-night
Mmm Hmm
Mmm Hmm
Hush little child
Rush little child
Once tame now wild
Was tame now wild
Your whisper-shout
The word is out
Ain’t it lethal
You’re not legal
Words and music by Kin Capa
Juvie-King
You’re such a juvenile
You’re such a juvenile
Hush, little child
Rush, little child
Truth never shouts though silence never doubts
All my kin will never win if we dress up just like
Magi-Kings
In the ring (too young to die)
Sketchy figures pull like triggers
Lacking vigor – mine is bigger!
Never thinking while child anything could ever
fuck you up –
Juvenile (too young to die)
But you’re gonna try tonight
To-ni-ni, to-ni-ni, to-ni-ni-night
You’re such a juvenile
You’re such a juvenile
They say, they say
“You don’t know nothing yet
“You don’t, you don’t, you don’t know nothing
yet”
I say, I say
“I’ve got something to say”
I say, I say
I’ve got somethin’, I’ve got somethin’, I’ve got
somethin’
To-ni-ni, to-ni-ni, to-ni-ni-night
You’re such a juvenile
You’re such a juvenile
You’re such a juvenile
Was tame, now wild
Was tame, now wild
Was tame, now wild
Hush, little child!
Words and music by Kin Capa
Feal
Your voice is longing someone to hear
The thoughts on your tongue
Should have no fear
Thieves told your secrets
And stole your tears
I want to help you while away those years
While you heal
You know the way I feel
Show me it’s real
You go away, I pay
It’s never quite the same in my brain
Since when have you got
Swagger on this floor
Since when are you not
Putting up those walls
We shall not break you
‘Til your last show
How much we love you
You’ll never know, so hold on
You know the way I feel
Show me it’s real
You go away, I wait
It’s never quite the same
When you return
To get me out of
This lonely cell
You’ve sent me to
Freedom will ring out
Let’s start anew, let’s start anew, let’s start anew
You know the way I feel
Show me you’ve healed
Go away, no, wait
Stay here now
In my brain
I’m not all there
Still you remain
In my bed
No regret
No redress
In my brain
Words and music by Kin Capa
Overture (War Psalm)
War!
War!
Wa-a-a-r!
War in your head
War in your bed
War ’til you’re dead
War, your best friend
War!
War!
Wa-a-a-r!
No need for wealth
No need for health
No need for faith
No love, just hate
War!
War!
I’m here to prey
Let freedom reign
Morning through noon and night
I’ve seen the light!
Let the new day arise
It’s time you fall
Let’s make it tonight
War!
War!
Wa-a-a-r!
War-toy country boy
War-wordly city girl
War tree lost a limb
One cure for pain–
War!
War!
War!
You want it to persist
You wanted to insist
We wanted to exist
We wanted to resist
War!
Words and music by Kin Capa
Re-Cover-Re
Just once, give in just once
Not to reason through
Re-cover-re, re-cover-mi
Leave my house of no rebuke
Do, re, mi “fai solo tu”
You armed me too
I can’t refuse
King is down, keep ’em out now
No wars, give me no wars
Failed to reason through
Bury my gun, bury my gun
In the land of retribute
Got one off you can’t refuse
You armed me too
I can’t refuse
King is down, keep ’em out now
Tell no lies
Tell you why it’s bye
Doubt by summer
Clean in spring
Bored’s the child
No more suffering, no more suffering
Some more, give me some more
Hope for Re-cover-re
Re-cover-mi, re-cover-re
Do, re, mi “fai solo tu”
Do, re, mi “fai sola si”
Let’s kick it out, kick it out now
Words and music by Kin Capa
Lil’ Bits
Every little bit of a lil’ bits
Was enough of it
To make and steal
Your eyes’ blue
A little bit of a lil’ bits
Was enough defeat,
To mend, unseal–
Your heart’s glue
‘Til our scene is through
The sky ain’t no ceilin’
Let’s me know nightly why we’re greedy
For more, and more, it’s more ’til
Every beat of my heart slows
Every little bit of a lil’ bits
In a little pit
Was enough to split
The seed’s glue
In a little bit of a lil’ bits
Feels enough of it
To make it fit
The earth’s blue
Will I see you’ve gone in the morning
Let’s me know rightly with some warning
No more, no more, no more
Every little beat of my heart slows
Sing!
I want you all to “oh, oh, oh”
Please!
Start the show “oh, oh, oh”
That’s why, it’s why, it’s why
You make me one
My life new
Words and music by Kin Capa
Overture: Return of the Juvie King
Shout!
Teacher, Preacher
Talker, Gawker
The Seeker is still meeker
Shout!
Reeper, Creeper
Bleaker, Weaker
The Voiceless are still choiceless
You say, you say, you’ve got something to say
Then say, then say, say what you’ve got to say
You say, you say, you’ve got something to say
You say, you say, say something, say something
Shout!
Words and music by Kin Capa
A Final Word
Who goes looking the rain
Again
Says there’s nothing without pain
Again
Fear will make you unaware
Resists the mind, afraid to dare
But who goes looking for the sun
Says there’s nothing left I want
Again
Once they said you’d understand
By now
Don’t you want to take a stand
By now
If you’re not, they’ll take you there
You’re not one to demonstrate
The fear you bought has not been sold
The love you sought has not yet returned with
gold
Will your final word ever get old
By now?
The touch of life
You’ll earn in time
The touch of life
You’ll learn in time
And time it burns, and time it burns, it burns
Fear will make you well aware
Resists the mind with no need to dare
But who goes looking for the sun
Says there’s nothing left,
I won
Words and music by Kin Capa
Queen of the ‘Niles
Once I knew a happy–
The poorest beggar’s dancing child
Juvie-Hall went wild–
Once I knew a sappy
Moppy-headed ruler-girl
Who led this world by her teens
The Queen with ease
We both stole a pearl a day
You gave yours away–
Debt now you repay
We both know
The time, it takes a toll on all
Our purity we knew
Catch her falling down
Running on high-wires
No one’s gonna find out what she hides
Like watching ourselves die
While in her prime
Put it in her file, put it in a vial
Anybody know what happened to
The Queen of Juvenile
She once happened, true
See no-no-no-no-now
A nowhere child
The Queen of Juvenile
The Queen of all the ‘Niles
Now you know our ‘Rani’
Oscar-winning movie queen
Who stole every scene with
No need for kings, daggers, or rings
She became a flunky
When she was a junkie-girl
Who lost her twirl and fell to earth
No one said a word
We all mourned
In war we wore
Her flag though torn
The crowd was reborn
Catch her falling down
Running on high-wires
No one’s gonna find out what she hides
Like watching ourselves die
While in her prime
Put it in her file, put it in a vial
Anybody know what happened to
The Queen of Juvenile
She once happened, true
See no, no, no, no, now
A nowhere child
The Queen of Juvenile
The Queen of all the ‘Niles
Catch her
Catch her on the fly
Watch her
Watch her falling down
From heaven
Catchers are what you are
Watchers are what you are
Put it in her file, put it in a vial
Anybody know?
Anybody know?
The Queen of Juvenile
The Queen of all the ‘Niles
Oh no, no, no, no, no
No, no, no, no, no
Once I knew a happy
I once knew a dancing girl
Words and music by Kin Capa
No Sound
No here, no there
Harmony
No sound, though we’ve a
Melody
But things have changed
No sound
You took a while to find out
It is your name that I shout
From the mountain-top
New sound
Listen!
I had been befalling far
For too many hours
All I needed was…
Something we call ours
Something we’re calling ours
Sum1 recalling ours
Now that there’s peace, I’ll be good
M.I.A. love not like it should
Whether there’s blood on our hand’s
Moral’s the seed on my land
Faretheewell
For now, just for now
I had been befalling far
For too many hours
All I needed was…
Something we call ours
Something we’re calling ours
Someone recalling ours
Words and music by Kin Capa
Rye
Up, up, up, up, up
A bomb got my mom and
My dad in Bahgdad
My sister’s sinister
My brother likes keister
Give me no love
Give me dumb luck
Double-down lock
Devil’s new stock
Coming up rock
Dig!
I sip on chilled Drano in
My house, a volcano
My kisses–Dracula
A blister popula
The devil takes hula*
Give me no love
Give me dumb luck
Double-down lock
Devil’s new stock
Coming up rock
Dig!
Down, down, down, down, down
Rye
We gave you some salt, sun
And water to rise up
All through the night
Then we bake you just right
You give us new life and
I gave you my song and
Now nothing’s wrong as
I bring up my Mom
*Hula- Water
Words and music by Kin Capa
Run From You
And now
I’m running from you
What you’ll do to me
All men will fall by
Your hand, your hand, your hand
Even when I was young
My papa told me,
“Son, beware of your own demise,
Of your own demise.”
And he told me,
“Boy, never be a toy, never shed joy,
Or fall you will, and fall you will.”
He said, “I’m gonna pray for you all.”
“I’m gonna pray for you all,”
He said
And now
I’m running from you
What you’ll do to me
All men will fall by
Your hand, your hand, your hand
Words and music by Kin Capa
RagZ
They dressed you up
In rags that have been mended
By the hands of Queen Anne’s maidens
Fits just right, not too tight
Now that you are
Rags resurrected
Citrus blend
Hues drowned in red
Velvet bed
Death’s not the end
East to west, all released
Now that you are
A war recollection
Boom, boom, boom
Boom sings the war drum
Soon, soon, soon
Soon we’ll be older
Down, down, down
Down goes the curtain
Down-a-down, soon-a-soon
Boom-gloom in the room
Hold on to never
Words and music by Kin Capa
Brother’s & Sister’s
Brother’s need Sister’s
You know how you are
Someone is listening
And is drunk on your art, drunk on your art
There’s so much love to you and
You don’t even know
Brother’s and Sister’s
Your drug is sorrow
You’re druggies for sorrow
You’re druggies for sorrow
You can’t hear, giving signs
Laundry lines, I am blind
Only you or I, only
Days are chains
‘Round your neck
Pulling rain
Down your face
I’m your wrench
You’re my monkey
Only you or I, only
Now that you’re gone
Something seems wrong
Because now I see a brighter day
Doesn’t await me
Words and music by Kin Capa
Epitaph: Don’t Forget To Say Goodbye
By the way,
Don’t forget to say goodbye to me
By the way,
Stop by and say a prayer for you and me
Where’d you go?
Now I know,
For the things I leave behind
While I’m away
I’ll look back and say
A prayer for you and me
By the way,
Don’t forget to say hello to me
Words and music by Kin Capa
