All Songs

Evening

• Always Look on the Bright Side by Monty 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
• Demon Sultan Azathoth by The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society ◦ An ode to the invincible creator of all
• Drive The Cold Winter Away ◦ Traditional ◦ Celebration in the midst of winter
• Find My Tribe by Raymond Arnold ◦ Seeking a community, despite our individualist natures
• Galaxy Song by Monty Python ◦ How big the universe is and how lucky we are to be a part of it
• Galaxy Song 2014 ◦ by Monty Python ◦ An updated version, with less astronomy and more biology
• Gather Round by Raymond Arnold ◦ An invitation to join our campfire
• Gonna Be A Cyborg by Raymond Arnold ◦ Transhumanism through the ages
• Her Mysteries by Allison Lonsdale ◦ A hymn to the Goddess for math and physics majors.
• Heros' Song by Julia Ecklar ◦ The glory of space exploration
• Let It Snow! by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne ◦ We don't mind bad weather so long as we have each other
• Life Is Too Short To Fold Underwear by Zoe Mulford
• Mad World by Gary Jules ◦ A lament of uncopeable insanity
• Mindspace is Deep and Wide by Raymond Arnold ◦ A warning against anthropromophizing optimizers
• Moon Song by Karen O ◦ The lunar surface is quiet and comfortable
• 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.
• Simulacrum ◦ Trying to blend in
• Singing Up The Sun by Ben Newman ◦ The point of a solstice celebration
• Stars by Sara Teasdale (lyrics) and Eriks Esenvalds (Music) ◦ The beuaty of the night sky
• Still Alive by Jonathan Coulton ◦ A smug, sociopathic celebration of survival and science
• The Circle by Taylor Smith ◦ Expanding the moral circle
• The Sun Is A Guy Who Travels Through The Sky by Raymond Arnold and They Might Be Giants ◦ An antiquated-style ode to the sun
• The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas by They Might Be Giants (Or Glazer & Evans) ◦ A mostly accurate ode to the sun
• The Sun Is A Miasma of Incandescent Plasma by They Might Be Giants ◦ An truly modern ode to the sun
• The Sun Is A Miasma of Incandescent Plasma, Shortened by They Might Be Giants and Raymond Arnold ◦ An truly modern ode to the sun
• The Sun Is An Ember by Scott Alexander and They Might be Giants ◦ A futuristic ode to the sun
• The Sun Is Medley ◦ assembled by Daniel Speyer ◦ Three odes to the sun in one
• The Sun Will Come Up Tomorrow by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin (mostly) ◦ A naive orphan's simple optimism, slightly tweaked
• Tit For Tat by Ben Newman ◦ Simple selfish interest still may serve the greater good
• 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
• We Seek We Strive We Yearn by GPT-3 and Folk-RNN ◦ Overcoming mortality
• We Wish You A Scary Solstice by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
• X Days of X Risk by Raymond Arnold ◦ Six (or more) ways the world could end

Dusk

• Baby Genie by Raymond Arnold ◦ A simple AI metaphor
• The Contract Drafting Em by Zack Davis ◦ The special horror when your employer has root on your brain
• One Shot by Daniel Speyer ◦ One shots make the prisoners' dilemma much harder
• Somewhere to Begin ◦ by Sara Thompsen ◦ Music and Dreams aren't solutions, but they are starting points
• Sons Of Martha by Rudyard Kipling (lyrics) and Daniel Speyer (music) ◦ An ode to those who make civilization possible
• That Problem Solved by Daniel Speyer ◦ I can solve my problems with my parents' teachings... until I can't

Twilight

• A Thousand Stars by Siegfried Köhler, translated by Daniel Böttger ◦ Beauty in Dark Places
• 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
• Cosmos by Carl Sagan (lyrics) and Kenley Kristofferson (music) ◦ Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
• Endless Light Above Me by Raymond Arnold ◦ The first part of a song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities
• Fix You by Coldplay ◦ Reaching out to a friend in pain
• Give My Your Tired
• Hard Times Come Again No More by Stephen Foster ◦ An old song of sorrow, hope and compassion
• Jewel in the Night by Chris Hadfield ◦ The beuaty of Earth from above, and a re-affirmation of Christmas
• Legends by Julia Ecklar ◦ Our space program passes into the past, and maybe into legend
• Lucifer by Leslie Fish and Don Simpson ◦ Ambition and striving for more
• Mal's Song aka Ballad of Serenity by Sonny Rhodes ◦ The Absolute Freedom of Space
• O Tannenbaum ◦ Traditional, with added verses by Silas Barta ◦ A progressively less traditional ode to trees
• Scarborough Fair ◦ Traditional ◦ A series of impossible challenges
• Scarborough Fair Dark Reprise by Cy Carson ◦ A lament for the fallen
• Scarborough Fair Triumphant Reprise by Tricky Talks (?) ◦ A return of sorts to Scarborough Fair
• Spring Mourning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman ◦ The passing of seasons, and of lives
• Something Impossible by Raymond Arnold and Grace Avery ◦ Shut up and do the impossible
• Stardust by Raymond Arnold ◦ All of us are made of stardust
• The Drummers Little Boy by Raymond Arnold ◦ Refusing to give up
• The Fallen Star by Aleksandr Dolsky; translated by Anna Tchetchetkine and friends
• The Mary Ellen Carter by Stan Rogers ◦ A folk song of determination and recovery
• Time Wrote the Rocks by Cat Faber ◦ Truth is found in the world
• Toast To The Fallen ◦ by Daniel Speyer ◦ Some peoples don't make it
• We Will All Go Together When We Go by Tom Lehrer ◦ A darkly humurous silver lining for mushroom clouds

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 Hear What I Hear by Noel Regney ◦ A growing story about a shivering child
• Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips ◦ A surreal song of love and death
• Empty Chairs At Empty Tables by L. David Lewis, Kim Williams, and Ed Hill ◦ A lone survivor contemplates a failed revolution
• 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
• Momma Look Sharp ◦ by Sherman Edwards (from 1776) ◦ A young soldier faces death
• The Next Right Thing ◦ by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez (from Frozen II) ◦ When your problems are too big to face in their entirety
• No One Survives by Daniel Kahn
• Songs Stay Sung by Zoe Mulford & Windborne, with edits by the Solstice team
• Space Doggity by Jonathon Coulton ◦ A good dog goes into orbit, before the invention of safe de-orbiting
• The Pantheon aka Ain't Gonna Catch You by Darren Korb ◦ There is no one to protect you from yourself
• There Will Come Soft Rain by Sara Teasdale (Lyrics) and Jonathon Adams (music) ◦ The world without us
• Sinner Man: Pandemic by Nina Simone ◦ Everything failing in the face of a true pandemic
• Song Of The Artesian Water by Banjo Paterson and Anna Tchetchekine ◦ A song about human ingenuity in the face of challenges.
• Sound Of Silence by Paul Simon, Originally ◦ Trying to hold to something meaningful amidst modern banality and suffering
• Stopping in the Woods by Robert Frost and Randall Thompson ◦ A vignette of looking into snowy woods at night
• Time Is Up by Poppy ◦ A newly awakened AI contemplates the end of humanity.
• We Will Become Silhouettes by The Postal Service ◦ What remains after a nuclear blast
• Who By Fire by Leonard Cohen ◦ Who will pass on in the coming year? How? And, perhaps, why?
• 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 Lights by Raymond Arnold ◦ A song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities

Morning

• Ballad Of Smallpox Gone by Leslie Fish ◦ Celebrating this victory
• Battle Hymn Of The Rationalist Community by Scott Alexandar (Lyrics) ◦ A triumphant celebration of truth and humanity
• Die Gedanken Sind Frei by Hoffmann von Fallersleben et. al. ◦ Thought is free
• Landsailor by Vienna Teng ◦ A salute to industrialization and its fruits
• Level Up by Vienna Teng ◦ An insistant yet triumphant invitation to grow
• Endless Light Around Me by Raymond Arnold ◦ The second part of a song of hope, generations, stories and infinite possibilities
• Fire In The Sky by Jordin Kare ◦ A celebration of space flight
• 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
• Holding Up The Sky ◦ by Daniel Speyer ◦ The responsibility of key infrastructurists
• Hope Eyrie by Julia Ecklar ◦ The moon landing, from an all-of-history perspective
• I Have Seen the Tops of Clouds by Daniel Speyer ◦ The miracles of today taken in context
• I Love The World by Brian Chapman ◦ All the awesome things on this planet
• 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
• Son of Man by Phil Collins ◦ Growing up
• Try Everything by Shakira ◦ Don't stop trying things.
• We Are The Light by Logan Strohl and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ◦ This dark, cold, terrifying world is ours to conquer
• Write This Number Down by Dar Williams ◦ A measured celebration of justice and rule of law

Days to Come

• Beautiful Tomorrow by Evgeny Krylatov (Music), Yuri Entin (Original Lyrics) and Anna Tchetchetkine et. al. (English Translation) ◦ Tomorrow calls to me
• Five Thousand Years by Raymond Arnold ◦ Looking to the far future
• Here Lies The Dragon by Corvus Corax, Translated by Jchan ◦ Celebrate the fall of the deadly dragon we've feared
• Let There Be Love ◦ by Daniel Speyer ◦ A future worth fighting for
• Singularity by The Lisps ◦ The ever-increasing weirdness that may lie ahead
• Sogno Di Volare: The Dream of Flight by Christopher Tin ◦ Man will be lifted by his own creation, filling the universe with wonder and glory
• Starwind Rising by Leslie Fish (and Mercedes Lackey?) ◦ Watch out universe: Earth's children are coming
• The Great Transhumanist Future ◦ Lyrics by Hannah “Alicorn” Blume, to the tune of “Big Rock Candy Mountain” by Harry McClintock
• Uplift by Andrew Eigel ◦ Human progress, from stone tools to space colonies