BONUS: Metra - Oops, All Music! - Ep 2

Later this spring, MythMakers Media will release Metra - The Cast Album!

Support the creation of the album, and get access to upcoming bonus materials, at ko-fi.com/metrathemusical 

In the meantime, you can be the first to hear the newly remixed and remastered songs, from the comfort of your podcast feed. We're sharing them as they're finished--here's batch 2!

Songs:
“Welcome MythMakers”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 1”
“Sam Introduces Aggy”
“Metra’s Mother”
“The Myth of Erysicthon Part 2”
“The Sweet Old Woman’s Theme”

Music and Lyrics by Ned Hartford

Produced by MythMakers Media

Featuring: Jeannette Bayardelle, Cherrye J. Davis, Fred Inkley, Corinna Schulenburg, Alia Munsch, Cristina Obando Sanchez, Sierra Rein

Sound Editing and Design; Instrumentation Arranged and Performed; Vocals Arranged; and all Audio Produced, Engineered, and Mixed by Ned Hartford

Check out our website for ways to join the climate movement: metrathemusical.com/do-something

Look out this spring for info on the Bandcamp release, including special bonus features.

Happy Listening!

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Mythmakers media presents Metra A Climate Revolution with Songs A serial scripted audio podcast produced and mixed by Tom Bowdy.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

Just the music part two with the swing of an axe, a bleeding tree bringing a viewing down on the world.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Here are the facts of how we finally came to be revolutionary.

SPEAKER_01 1:18

Revolutionary kind of guy.

SPEAKER_03 1:29

Go, corey, go, corey, go, corey, go! Yeah, hot. Getting hot so hot. World burning out of control. Yeah, we've been brought where to the slaughter. By the lies those rich men told Now they tell us not to fear. And let them save the day. Cause that's the same old shit that got us good. We gotta get them out of the way. Get the billionaires out of the way. That's all the birds test. Take a note, follow the middle, test stop. And who are we talking about? We're talking about you. Welcome to baker. Welcome bits, baker. Mid the baker, such as the bakers and the bakers, just the history. Too far, tomorrow. But you know, before they get their stop dropping, pop them out into the process. If we got it to the end of it, cause that'd be fine if they were. Did I really say that? No, we don't play that. Tip for tat combat. So yo, we gotta lay it down flat that get back out. Put the shit away, stack. Because tomorrow, we win the bubble people over. Right? Now you know the hardships that have brought you here. The loved ones, God, the famine, the thirst, the chaos, the security forces, and their guns. And the bubble people with all their food and water while the outside can't be here for revenge. I'm here to remind you of the pain in your past. It doesn't define you. We learn to be strong. We learn to be brave. We got to There's a world to save. We're gonna change the situation. Strike a blow that's gonna lead to transformation. How do I know? Cause the answer's right before me in the power and the glory of you and your story. Gonna reach across the distance. Gonna break down their resistance. Come so far as who you are. It's gonna save us all those years, stupid stars. You're gonna open up their eyes and lead them to the left. Make them real life with a living lay right, make up the wide, make them. Let's move makers. Let me hear. The myth of King Erisicthon and his daughter Metra from Ovid's metamorphoses. Here it comes. Get ready. Huh. Yeah, as written by Ovid in 8 AD, what he transcribed is what survived. Through the mist of history, King Erisikon is evil mysties. Oh, the damage that was done out of selfishness and greed. Yeah, Ovid wrote down a whole bunch of lines about the selfish king and his horrible crimes. But when it comes to Metra, we know much less. Ovid didn't think I was important, I guess. Fucking Ovid. Fucking Ovid. Yeah. But there's somebody else who played a key role. Somebody totally left out. Who did Ovid in that narrative hole? Who do we know nothing about? My mother. Metra's mother, the wife of the king, of whom I know nothing, not a goddamn thing. Ovid deemed her non-sential. My father kept her confidential. I need to know who she was. We all need to know because the revolution is conceived by Metra's mother. And tell us all about it. Our lovely squangstress. Yes, direct from the Greek islands. Let's give a big Cory's place. Welcome to that sultry siren. Our fairy tale femme fatale.

SPEAKER_02 9:04

Thank you. A human being I felt sorry for. And it's a song about the man who did her wrong. So, with all due respect and deference to Ovre, this is a little song I like to call Metro's Mother. Goes like this. He cursed me the day you were born for not giving him a son.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

My body left broken and torn. No more worth on this earth or anything, or anyone. What do you at least I made it you? My beautiful daughter.

SPEAKER_02 10:10

That even he fell in love into me clearing. I could see it in his eyes. My body gave up.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

It be me, he would blame and despise my least he loves it. My beautiful daughter. And I cried as he took you away from me. And I died in a moment of clarity.

SPEAKER_02 10:58

Then no one knows me or my story. Just like those who came before me.

SPEAKER_03 11:04

No, I never had a voice. I would speak if I could scream to be understood, beg forgiveness, that I made the choice for you to give birth to you into a world that crushes a girl.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

I am a rustic fun king of thickly. Don't you mess with me? I take what I want, and I get what I need. I am a rustic fun and I like weed.

SPEAKER_03 13:30

Consecrated, dedicated to Ceres, the goddess of abundance and fertility. So everyone was like King, let the forest be!

SPEAKER_00 13:40

Hmm. Let me think about it. Huh.

unknown 13:45

Now two three for you.

SPEAKER_00 13:50

Had you know in there to die. Ho ho! Make you think I care to die! Well I don't! I don't care me cards! I am the present for the king of the people, I said, don't you mess with me? Do as I please fuck the cards! Those are my fucking trees.

SPEAKER_03 14:55

From the axe glows, the blood flows. The people all cry, cause everybody knows residing inside those holy trees, the holy handmaidens of the goddess Ceres. A man steps forward before the neck swing and begs the king, don't do this thing, but my father cuts off that poor man's head.

SPEAKER_00 15:44

Anybody else wanna wind up deck? I didn't think so.

SPEAKER_03 15:54

Ovid then says I do absolutely nothing. Does Ovid mean I should have done something? What the fuck, man? I'm just a girl with a rotten fucking father in a rotten, cruel world. A nymph dies. A man dies. A forest shudders.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

It's high time the people realize I am the only God. That matters.