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In 2033, Meteor Mags records 88 Light Years, the second solo album featuring her vocal and piano talents. This lyric for one of her original tunes is about a legendary chess player who defeated damn near everyone in the States and Europe before quitting the game entirely at age twenty-two. At age forty-seven, he was found dead in his bathtub as the result of a stroke.
The Paul Morphy Blues
I fought fools and princes,
taught them how to kneel.
Vict’ry gave me nothing,
nothing I could feel.
I fought states and countries,
taught them how to cry.
My heart is a riverbed
drought has all run dry.
Conquered all horizons,
I solved all the math.
Quit while you’re a legend.
Someone draw my bath.
Will you come and visit?
Will you say my name?
Hist’ry’s what you make it.
Now it’s all the same.
Call me pride and sorrow.
Say I was insane.
I can’t see a damn thing,
blinded in this game.
When there’s no tomorrow,
future’s in the past,
I won’t care for legends.
Someone draw my bath.
Mars Will Send No More 