Balance Lost
I heard about the handbook when I was 17
They said it holds the secret to forgotten technologies
of a race that has since gone extinct
My interest piqued, I've been searching ever since
I got a ship with a navigation computer
No crew to hassle me, or mutiny
You don't trust me and I don't trust you
In the distant future, the year 2022
Got my first clue on Pluto
To tell the truth though, doesn't seem like much
Just a credit card with 2 holes
Dude said it was some kind of key
And told me to see his informant(man) on mercury
I followed the lead with suspicion
A snitch fishin for incriminating evidence
Eliminate the non-residents and make my getaway
With another key to add to my resume
For now I'll hide out in a meteor cloud
Wait for the heat to die down
As luck would have it, while I'm floating around
A piece of the puzzle, amongst the rubble
But my translation needs some refinement
I need to decipher these alien symbols
Find me a primer, I ain't multilingual
To a gas dweller this'll be simple
Deep in the fog of jupiter, I was dubious
Can these mystics transcribe into English?
But their help came with a warning
Performing these actions can't be reversed
With repercussions unknown or worse
The first person to try never came back
Did they die o r just lose contact?
But I've come so far, it's too late to turn back
- Make a space ship with platinum tools
- fill your tanks with plutonium fuel
- Fly at 88 light years per hour
- Directly into a neutron star
Beyond the realms of our worldly existence
I am no longer what I once was
There is no I, only we.
While the constraints of time and space have evaporated
this new truth that was a precursor to time itself has revealed the infinite hope that is our very essence