All Songs

Evening

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monte Python ◦ A silly song about making the best of terrible things
• Bring the Light by Alex Federici and Raymond Arnold ◦ We call out to the sun with imagery of different eras
• The Contract Drafting Em by Zack Davis ◦ The special horror when your employer has root on your brain
• Find My Tribe by Raymond Arnold ◦ Seeking a community, despite our individualist natures
• Gather Round by Raymond Arnold ◦ An invitation to join our campfire
• Gonna Be A Cyborg by Raymond Arnold ◦ Transhumanism through the ages
• Let It Snow! by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne ◦ We don't mind bad weather so long as we have each other
• Mindspace is Deep and Wide by Raymond Arnold ◦ A warning against anthropromophizing optimizers
• Move the World by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of ambition, of gathering leverage and allies
• Necronomicon by Raymond Arnold ◦ What "Winter Wonderland" is to the teachings of Jesus, this song is to incomprehensible horrors that shape our world.
• Still Alive by Johnathon Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science
• The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas by They Might Be Giants ◦ A mostly accurate ode to the sun
• Walk With Me by Daniel Speyer ◦ An invitation to a journey, highlighting the practical benefits of companions
• We Know The Way by Lin Manuel Miranda and Others ◦ A celebration of exploration
• When I Die by Glen Raphael ◦ A light-hearted song about death
• Winter Is Icumen In by Ezra Pound ◦ A lament of the coming season, in anachronistic language
• X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six ways the world could end

Dusk

• Baby Genie by Raymond Arnold ◦ A simple AI metaphor
• That Problem Solved by Daniel Speyer ◦ I can solve my problems with my parents' teachings... until I can't

Twilight

• Bitter Wind Blown by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lullaby for a child that is shivering in the cold
• Bold Orion by Leo Kretzner and Jon Bell ◦ A mythologically inspired ode to Orion the Hunter
• Bring the Light, Reprise ◦ Call to the sun again, with more emphasis on what it does for us
• Chasing Patterns by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our struggle for understanding
• Give My Your Tired
• Something Impossible by Raymond Arnold and Grace Avery ◦ Shut up and do the impossible
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world

Night

• Beneath Midwinter Midnight by Raymond Arnold ◦ A lament of winter, contrasting with repeated "we are not alone"s
• Bitter Wind March by Raymond Arnold ◦ A return to Bitter Wind Blown, but with determination to do something about it
• Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan ◦ A catalogue of the world's problems from a vaguely hopeful perspective
• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• Hymn to the Breaking Strain by Rudyard Kipling ◦ Abide the twin damnation, to fail and know we fail
• A Little Echo by Raymond Arnold (with a few bits by Daniel Speyer) ◦ Love, life, death, and the desperate hope for life again
• The Malthusian Trap Song by James Babcock ◦ On second thought, maybe farming was a mistake
• Sinner Man: Pandemic by Nina Simone ◦ Everything failing in the face of a true pandemic
• Stopping in the Woods by Robert Frost and Randall Thompson ◦ A vignette of looking into snowy woods at night
• The Voicing of Fear by Daniel Speyer ◦ How much we have to lose and how little chance we have to keep it

Dawn

• Brighter Than Today by Raymond Arnold ◦ Our central anthem of hope, starting from the invention of fire
• Endless Light by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities

Morning

• Forever Young by Bob Dylan and Joan Baez ◦ An outsider's blessing that verges on transhumanism
• Here and Now by Raymond Arnold ◦ A celebration of now
• Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles ◦ A light-hearted celebration of the sun
• I Have Seen the Tops of Clouds by Daniel Speyer ◦ The miracles of today taken in context
• Seasons of Love by Johnathon Larson (from Rent) ◦ Five hundred twenty five thousand six hundred minutes...
• Somebody Will by Sassafrass ◦ I can't solve the entire problem, but I can contribute, and trust my tribe to go the rest of the way
• We Are The Light by Matt Elder (?) ◦ This dark, cold, terrifying world is ours to conquer

Days to Come

• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• Starwind Rising by Leslie Fish (and Mercedes Lackey?) ◦ Watch out universe: Earth's children are coming
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies