[Intro: The Graveyard Thud] (Sound of heavy breathing, digging, and a Minimoog low-end drone) (Deep Voice Narration) "1984... The year the groove refused to die. Can you feel that? It’s not your heart... it’s the soil. (Female Scream!) Rise and Funk!" [Verse 1: Male Solo - The Awakening] The moon is bleeding neon pink tonight The soil is cracking, rhythmic and tight Legendary fingers clawing through the mud With P-Funk plasma running through their blood [Verse 2: Male/Female Dialogue - Panic] (Woman) "Honey, the TV... it's melting into glitter!" (Man) "Don't touch the dial, it's a funky transmitter!" (Woman) "Look at their eyes! They’re glowing like a synth!" (Man) "They’re dragging us down to the rhythm-labyrinth!" [Verse 3: Female Solo - The Infection] (High Pitch Scream!) My skin is turning emerald, my hair is an Afro-star I'm caught in the tractor beam of a ghost-guitar I tried to run but my knees started to sway The funk-virus won't let me get away! [Pre-Chorus: Eerie Harmony] (Choir) One-on-the-one... One-on-the-one... (Man) "It's too late! The bass has got us!" [Chorus: Grand Ensemble] Rise and Funk! Your hips are possessed! Zombie Shake! Put the rhythm to the test! Infecting the city with a velvet groove Even the dead have got something to prove! [Verse 4: Male Rap/Talk - The City Falls] The cops arrived with gas, but it turned into smoke One sniff of the dry ice, and the precinct broke Tear gas to disco mist, the badges start to spin If you can’t beat the zombies, let the funk crawl in! [Verse 5: Female Scream & Solo - Transformation] (Long Scream!) "I can't feel my heartbeat, only the bass!" Sequins growing on my rotting lace I'm a funky cadaver, a soul-singing ghost Dancing with the devil and the heavenly host! [Verse 6: Male/Female Exchange - The Mall] (Man) "They’re in the food court! Playing the Prophet-5!" (Woman) "Are they dead, or are they finally alive?" (Man) "They’re eating the beat, they don't want your brain!" (Woman) "This heavy-ass rhythm is driving me insane!" (Scream!) [Bridge 1: The Heavy Sludge Bass] (BPM stays steady, but the Minimoog bass gets extremely "buyo-buyo" and distorted) (Voice) "Free your mind... and your zombie-ass will follow!" [Verse 7: Male Solo - The High Priest] Old Man Clinton rises from the center of the street Turning every heartbeat into a syncopated beat The galaxy is watching this parade of the dead "Your hips are resurrected!" is all the zombies said. [Verse 8: All Vocals - The Zombie March] (Group Chant) Left, right, shake it to the center Into the Mothership, every soul shall enter! No more breathing, just the rhythm and the rhyme We’re killing the silence, one beat at a time! [Verse 9: Female Solo - The Velvet Diva] Purple velvet coffins, diamonds on the bone The loudest march of spirits that the world has ever known (Scream!) "I’m the Queen of the Crypt, the Disco Deceased!" The funk-hunger is a beautiful beast! [Bridge 2: Chaos & Climax] (Multiple overlapping voices, chaotic synth stabs, screams) (Man) "The Mothership is landing!" (Woman) "Look at the light!" (Group Scream!) [Chorus: Grand Ensemble] Rise and Funk! Your hips are possessed! Zombie Shake! Put the rhythm to the test! Infecting the city with a velvet groove Even the dead have got something to prove! [Verse 10: Male/Female Dialogue - The Final Stage] (Woman) "Is it over? Is the sun coming up?" (Man) "No baby, this is the eternal cup." (Woman) "I see the stars... and they’re all 808s!" (Man) "The Mothership is opening the pearly gates!" [Verse 11: Male Solo - The Departure] Hand in hand, the living and the ghosts Toasting to the rhythm, we are the funky hosts Marching to the silver-ship, leaving earth behind A graveyard disco is the only peace we find. [Verse 12: All Vocals - The Eternal Groove] (Choir) We are the Funkadelics, we never truly die Just shimmering like glitter in the midnight sky (Man) "Keep shaking." (Woman) "Keep screaming." (Final Collective Scream!) [Outro: The Grave Closes] (Slow, heavy heartbeat thud) (Deep Voice) "Don't fight it... your waist is already dead. Goodnight, mortal groovers. We'll see you... in the mix." (Sound of a heavy coffin lid slamming shut) (One final, low Moog sub-bass note fades to silence)
