How You Dune
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In a strange and distant future
In which Buddhism merges with Islam
And humanity settles the galaxy
According to the writer Frank Herbert
(and his Son Brian if you read those books)
Ominous and Erasmus
Created by the Cymeks
Who called themselves the Titans
Enslaved by their own AI tech
Who pissed off Serena Butler
Who with the Harkonens and the Atreides
And all of their of family atomics
Nuked the Titans to back hades
(This was the Butlerian Jihad it ended the titans but not the AIs who would later seem to be destroyed only to emerge in an extremely distant future too trippy to discuss here)
And it’s a long long way to the future
It’s a long long way past the moon
And it will take me a long time to tell you
How you Dune
Well the Butlers became the Corrinos
Enforcing Sarina’s command
Banning all thinking machines by force
An empire standing on sand
And the Harkonnens were damned as traitors
Because they refused to nuke the sky
And a scholarly sisterhood formed and said
they could sniff out any lie
(And ironically had a secret plan to control the bloodlines of the ruling families to ensure the best possible outcome for humanity and their own order-what could possibly go wrong with that)
And it’s a long long way to the future
It’s a long long way past the moon
And it will take me a long time to tell you
How you Dune
And when the mighty spacing guild formed at year one
And the race to hoard spice had officially begun
All eyes then turned toward Arrakis
With its deserts, its worms, its Fremen, and its dust
(The only substance in the universe that would allow the spacing guilds navigators to fold space but which also got you really really wasted)
While the emperor and the spacing guild
And the league of nobles the Landsraad
And the Bene Gesserit sisterhood
All fought for control of Arrakis
Ten thousand years went by
Until the 84th Padishah ruler
Teamed up with a Harkonnen baron
To cancel the Atreides dukedom
(And by cancel I mean kill)
And it’s a long long way to the future
It’s a long long way past the moon
And it will take me a long time to tell you
How you Dune
The survivors lady Jessica
And the late duke’s son Paul would
Escape to live with the Fremen
And ride on Shai Halud (that’s a sand worm)
And Jessica who’s a Bene Gesserit
And Paul with his witchy weirdness
Use the spice to defeat the emperor
In a way too complex to explain here
(But it’s detailed in a book you can buy at a local bookstore or borrow from the library if you want to know more)
And it’s a long long way to the future
It’s a long long way past the moon
And it will take me a long time to tell you
How you Dune
How you Dune
How you Dune
How you Dune
Filk is the mind killer