11/27/24 yes I still listen to this opera ❤

As a huge fan of this album and it's storytelling. I wonder if anybody here has ever listened to "The Deer Hunter" It's very much in the same vein. It's five albums with a total of five acts. Telling a story of a young man raised in the wilderness coming to learn about living in the city and the crime that comes with it. Should definitely check it out.

I know it's probably not what the writer intended, but I love envision the end of Save Our City (8:10), the priest is shouting and rousing people to fight with a Bible in hand (ready to actually fight), but a little kid, just as the demons are about to jump her, kneels and puts her hands together in prayer, and a gold shield repels the demon back. And you see tons of thousands of angels protecting while others destroy and beat back the evil with swords and arrows. Just absolutely beautiful song and amazing album. Absolutely sobbed when he says "I thought I'd come along for the ride."

Oh man it’s been like 10 years since I last listened to this and it still goes hard

Anything can be a weapon if you're holding it right.

Your socks on the wood floor The moment I'd hoped for I'm terrified to think you might be real I curl up behind you Fit my body to yours like a shell I smell your hair, oh love, I can't believe you I squeeze you to make sure you're really here and I'm overwhelmed I've been waiting for so long To touch you and sleep in your eyes And now as my heart's beating so hard I hold on and keep you at home in my arms They tried to console me But you're all the consolation I ever needed Years of smelling the clothes you left behind The photographs that seemed so far away I don't need them now You turn to me alive, awake, and blinking, baby "Back so soon?" you ask, but I smile 'cause I never left at all You check the clock, it's time to go You grab your keys and you're out the door I step outside and you're waving goodbye It's all happening again like before As you're starting the car and I'm tearing inside I knock on your window, you stop just in time Around to the other side I say, "Baby, I thought I'd come along for the ride." I've been waiting for so long (Time slows, and I take your hand) To touch you and sleep in your eyes (I hold you as we lose control) Together our hearts beating so hard Hold on, baby, we're almost home

So rapid the raptors, as coursers they came All the scratching and screaming, I barely escaped While the fuel cells they drained far too fast, I am dragged Like worms on a hook through the hole to the blackness beyond At the end of days, where the world bleeds and burns The sun is black as sackcloth made of hair The stars have fallen to the Earth, mountains tearing from the ground Look at these people hiding from the red raindrops While earthquakes shake the broken timber of this burning town There's poison in the water, the ocean's blood that's turned to slime and gotten hard All the fish and whales are corpses on the scab In the darkness soldiers gnaw their tongues in pain, you see So help me God, at the end of time they're screaming on their knees Oh let them die! oh let them die! "The wrath of the Lamb!" the martyrs cry "Break the seven seals, let the horsemen ride!" The soldiers bear the royal crest and scream into the sky "He will come He will come! the Dragon's on the rise!" "The King survived though his throat was cut, they say he's the chosen one He leads our men from Babylon, the rebellion's worldly son Against the Tyrant, we have joined with him as soldiers" He tells me this while he shakes a bit - he's staring at his gun The painful stings of flying things have worn away his flesh and popped his eyes At the blackness, he lashes out and cries "You cowards and your wrathful God will see what power means When the Dragon comes, His will be done, in the fires you'll be cleaned Oh let him rise! Oh let him rise!" I watched these people fall The dragon shrieks and burns it all I flip the circuits on, I've got dragons of my own The portal glows and my machine's destroyed "The Traveler has saved their souls from the Destroyer of Worlds Then why does his heart still scream? Rise and speak" I couldn't save her, I know she will die But please, if I could only tell her goodbye All I want is just one more day That morning in May I've fought reptilian monsters I've crossed a bloody sea Just to meet you here And now I'm coming home, my dear The light is warm, outside at dawn The garden has no weeds, no grave beneath the tree Through the silent house, my love after all Curled up in a ball, there you are

Oh baby, baby, how I lost my mind Time is quite the killer when you're left behind The airbag held you 'til the engine slept At home your pillow cooled while the willows wept They come and go, love (Come and go but they, but they) But they're all the same (D-da, d-da, da da, da da) Even big bad bad boys get scared at night It keeps them safe (At home, baby) I'm gonna throw this rock down (Gonna throw it down, let it roll) Tonight's the night (Tonight) I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey (I'm gonna lose 'em when I) Gonna turn back time Remember in the summer when I held your hand On the southern shore finding fossils in the sand Oh baby, maybe someday you will find me On that beach beside you again They come and go, love (Come and go but they, but they) But they're all the same (D-da, d-da, da da, da da) Even big bad bad boys get scared at night It keeps them safe (At home, baby) I'm gonna throw this rock down (Gonna throw it down, let it roll) Tonight's the night (Tonight) I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey (I'm gonna lose 'em when I) Gonna turn back time Here we go They come and go, love (Come and go but they, but they) But they're all the same (D-da, d-da, da da, da da) Even big bad bad boys get scared at night It keeps them safe (At home, baby) I'm gonna throw this rock down (Gonna throw it down, let it roll) Tonight's the night (Tonight) I'm gonna go out, fire it up, honey (I'm gonna lose 'em when I) Gonna turn back time I'm gonna save your life

Save Our City Song by Ludo Overview Lyrics Artists Listen Mr. Mayor, the mission burns The zombies are marching, they close on the square Families are cold, look down at their souls Huddled in camps on the old marble steps of City Hall Faith in their God, that's all that they've got Across the room, beyond the pane The whole world is churning, bleeding and burning, hailstorms and ash The moon is as blood Over the soldiers who sag in the mud Save our city Keep our souls, Lord Through the rapture of this world Little boy, I'm just a man, a mere civil servant Against this tyrant God I've allied with our King, salvation he brings Protecting the city against all the troops Heaven sent But the dead walk again, this is the end Oh I'm just a man, my time has come Long live King Simius! May he deliver us from this nightmare! And with a blast like the sun His lips are unwrapped from the barrel of his gun Save our city Keep our souls, Lord Through the rapture of this world Fought and fell for our great king We burned alive and boiled The dragon, red and wrathful calls We rise and march once more Cursed in death, we starve for flesh Our skin is cooked and curled We'll eat our kin and smash them in In Hell, we'll grind their bones Save our city Keep our souls, Lord Through the rapture of this world Save our city Keep our souls, Lord Through the rapture of this world Save our city (Fought and fell for our great king) Keep our souls, Lord (We burned alive and boiled) Through the Rapture [The mayor's ruined head, the boy steps through the window] (The dragon, red and wrathful calls) Of this world [and cries out from the ledge to the people below] (We rise and march once more, cursed in death-) (Save our city) There's a time to pray and there's a time to fight (-we starve for flesh. Our skin is-) (Keep our souls, Lord) Anything can be a weapon if you're holding it right (- cooked and curled) (Through the rapture) Defend what is yours, they will not take our souls (We'll eat our kin and smash them in) It's time now to rise and fight! Save our city! Keep our souls, Lord! Rise now and fight!

Fifteen years I raged against the constant C, the speed of light, the diagrams and haunted sleep on frozen sheets, in bed, my dreams, your garden grave, I'd climb inside, hold your bones and slowly die, the cooling space inside your chest, my broken bride, you never breathed again. The circuits fail, the cosmic strings like rubber bands, I lose control, they snap, I fall through mist to mud against my face, the taste of blood, the world is strange, the stinking earth and giant trees, through heavy air a demon shrieks, what have I done? What hell is waiting for me? CHORUS I crashed before the birth of Christ, pterodactyls swarming You died in 1989, just wanna get back to that morning in May Keep you in bed, never escape, holding you close, Listen to you breathe the evening glow of fading light and cooling space. Like motor oil down my throat, I couldn't speak, I dropped the phone, the burning flares, the steam, your hair, bits of glass, they sparkled everywhere, like winter nights, the stars, the ice, all intertwined, to hold and keep, like petals pressed in sheets, making love to moonlight in our sleep. But now above the pits of tar, in a cave I hide, that massive screaming thing with wings of reaper's cloth, it's standing just outside, I must get to my machine, I will bring you back to life, fix your ruined lungs, I'll undo what time has done! REPEAT CHORUS I carve your sweet name into the cave, I'm sure to die All my strife has been in vain The glaciers come and wash my words away REPEAT CHORUS

Still so fucking tasty

I wish I hadn't read the explanations of the ending in the comments because now I'm crying

Someone told me this is a Christian band. Is this a Christian album with band members who are Christian?

My least favourite part is 27:17

Man, I still want this album to be made into a stage play. it's awesome. so visual. also the reference to the San bernardino Train crash. '89 was not a great year.

“Curled up in a ball, there you are…” save up to 10% on select tempurpedic. Damn adds worst timing

Love this So much! edit congrats on almost 100 subs <3

the last track I couldn't help but imagine my husband the whole time and it makes me cry

is he saying “prolly gonna turn back time”? like he thinks it might not work? lol

Scott Alexander

Forever in my top favorite albums. Genius.

This not being on Spotify or other music services is an incredible crime. I wonder if they aren't proud of it or something?

I'm going to kayake through the pageant on a river of tears in October 🤣

Not crying

Listens to album for first time.... furiously begins writing out movie script

yes

this is so good!!

The thumbs down are people who’s lovers didn’t travel to the ends of time and space to save them

This was my first exposure to storytelling albums, and frankly? it was a great introduction

Girls: Boys don't know true pain and sadness! Boys: Morning in May

A CLASSIC!! i love this so much. keep coming back to this.

My emotions dont even know how to deal with this. Stellar. Magnificent. Adjectives.

If you haven't sung "Save our City" at the top of your lungs, you're missing out.

"Baby...I thought I'd come along for the ride." T.T fucking love this album so much, even though I can cry several times if I let myself get swept up in it.

So what happens next? Does He get in the car with her? Does he die to? Why did he not stop her from leaving?

I'M NOT CRYING ITS JUST EDS THROWING SALT WITH GREAT FORCE

Honestly this is my favorite album by Ludo But my favorite song is Scream, Scream, Scream.

3:50 When the Cleric multiclasssed to bard

Save our City is a pump up song for me believe it all not haha

My preferred listen order, and how I introduce people to this work of art: Part IV Part I Part II Save our City Part III Part IV

Heard this song way back in high school and I never felt the need to cry then... what is this :'(

How is this not animated yet?

Found this 10 years ago. Still tries to make me cry

Almost 2019 and still belting this shit out...

Thank you for posting this in full. I love this story

The reprise of the first part when he destroys the machine always hits me so hard.

*uncontrollable sobbing*

This looks like going to be great movie. Wow. I am going to see it.

Oh look, I'm crying.

The most beautiful love story