Mortal

[AD2007.parallel.Cape Polyakov.1152am.Shareholder's Luncheon.Simun Arochet.prodigy,strategist,philanthropist,obsessive - the unbeatable 'rocket' pitch?]

From climate control and L.E.O. communication relays
To mass transit
Success relies on implementation
Therefore advances in tech revolve around the rocket
But tonight I'm looking farther into
Breaking orbit
Exploring frontiers anew
Why face depletion of resource
And extinction of the human race
When we could harvest the riches of space?
We could harness the power of stars for the survival of man
Will you join me in building a brighter future?

A rocket, a rocket
I want to build a rocket
A rocket, a rocket
I'm just the man to build it
A rocket, a rocket
I want to build a rocket
A rocket, a rocket
To ride into the sunset

Conquest is a dangerous word
But it's a place to begin
A race I plan to win
If you let the goal transform your soul
Then you'll understand what drive ambition in man
You say at any expense, “avoid malevolence”
I say the higher the stakes the more I'll do what it takes
I'm building rockets
Not lies, sublime
The first of giant steps toward the rise of empire

A rocket, a rocket
I want to build a rocket
A rocket, a rocket
I'm just the man to build it
A rocket, a rocket
I want to build a rocket
A rocket, a rocket
To ride into the sunset

A rocket, a rocket
A hyper-ion rocket
A rocket, a rocket
Just give me time to build it
A rocket, a rocket
Into the blue sky - rocket
A rocket, a rocket
And I would kill to launch it

A rocket, a rocket
Just give me space to build
A rocket, a rocket
'Cause I've got time to kill
A rocket, a rocket
By sheer force of will
A rocket, a rocket
I will not rest until
A rocket, a rocket
I've got to build a rocket
A rocket, a rocket
Into the blue sky - rocket
A rocket, a rocket
To fly me through the sunset
A rocket, a rocket
What I would kill to launch it

[AD1962 December 22,Philippine Islands.Lucena provence. "... it rained on the day of our wedding and we both somehow caught a fever! We didn't have a place yet and no money for a hotel room, so we spent our wedding night in a little shack"]

Instrumental.

[AD2773.parallel.Saddle Ring System.NuErth.Naxos.Hall of Records.Gabryel Torena."I have clearance"]

Massive first strike
Distorting daylight
Blurring space-time
Devastation worldwide
Maps of stretch and silence
Echoes of fallen gates
Above once solid cities
Death still regenerates

"Calm your fear and lift up your eyes
We're breaking free of terra firma tonight
Fearless angle to the edge of sight
We'll race the darkness till we reach the light"

So come on!
Come on, yeah!
Come on!
Come on, yeah!

Generations forgotten
Yet resilient life remained
On foundations
Original cities again reclaimed
Born into revolution
Season of the megaton
Reason clear and empirical
Hope of the future's son
And from the ashes of buried past
Where death still resonates
Rises humanity
Where bright freedom detonates

Captain Torena
Your courage lives forever
Your memory lives, forever

Breach time and space
Restore the human race

Fight the future
Fight the past
Just survive!

"Calm your fear and lift up your eyes
You're breaking free of Terafirma tonight
It's the pinnacle, fight of our lives
Enduring darkness to embrace the light"

"Calm your fear and lift up your eyes
We're breaking free of Terafirma tonight
Fearless angle to the edge of sight
We'll race the darkness till we reach the light"

So come on!

[March 31, 2002.4:05am]

We've traveled many distances
Into the soul of wilderness
To place the mystery of man
Inside the power of Your hand

And the sky will fall in ocean's roar
When our deepest loss overtakes us all
Will you embrace us in Your light
Before the day becomes the night?

Here comes the rising tide
Here comes the great divide
Here comes the rain again
The cloudburst
The cloudburst
Here comes the battleships
Here comes apocalypse
Red rockets fall like rain
And the sky bursts
The sky bursts
Bring down the height of man
Bring on the future's end
Send down the rain again
In cloudburst
In cloudburst

And the stars will fall around us all
Before the crush of endless night
Will You consume me in Your light?

Bring down the stars, oh God
Bring down the sun and moon
Tear wide the firmament
With cloudburst
With cloudburst
Then let Your glory fall
Let every eye behold
Let every tongue confess
You are God!
You are God!
You are God!
You are God!
You are God!
You are God!
You are God!
You are God!
You are God!
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