LOWKEY
(singing)
Once upon a time in space
There lived a real galactic race
The Tracers
WOH́́
Ooh-woah-oh-ohhh…
LOWKEY
Out there in the vast sublime
It seems you couldn't escape time's
Eraser
What happened to the Tracers?
There's nothing left but ruin
Don't have a clue what you were doin'
Were you the first space-blazers?
I guess we'll never know
LOWKEY & WOH́́
Oh Tracers how you baffle me so
LOWKEY
Did you build a giant death machine?
Take yourselves off of the scene?
WOH́́
Ooh-woah-oh-ohhh…
LOWKEY
Portal to a new dimension?
Stars, I just can't take the tension!
WOH́́
Can't take the tension!
Ooh-woah-oh-ohhh…
LOWKEY
Did your empire collapse and fall?
Did you shrink yourselves down really small?
Or take off to Andromeda?
Can't explain these phenomena…
What happened to the Tracers?
Would you have been allies
Or instead spelled out our demise?
Have we become your replacers?
I guess we'll never know
LOWKEY & WOH́́
Oh Tracers how you baffle me so
LOWKEY
See the Traces down below
Ancient graces, modern shows
I've been wond'rin my whole life
If you were built in peace or strife
You the people who made them
To what sleep did you succumb?
We've seen your ruins, planetwide…
Please just let us know-
WOH́́
Oh no!
LOWKEY
-how you died!
(spoken)
Nah, who am I kidding.
LOWKEY & WOH́́
(singing)
This is the tale of the Tracers!
One question on my mind:
The answer much too hard to find.
Is yours the fate of all spacers?
I hope it isn't so
Oh Tracers, wherever did you go…
credits
from ROGUEMAKER Soundtrack,
released May 28, 2023
Composed by Emily Branam and Tatyana Archtander
Lyrics by Tatyana Archtander and Emma Johanna Puranen
Performed by Omar Camps-Kamrin and Alexandra Rose DeAngelis
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