nearing Alpha Centauri B, I find 2 raider ships to bombard
attacking their ships with sprays of death and maneuvering around

with their guns in hand I'm ready for them, transporting aboard my ship
killing them off in the instant they materialize

rushing to the ship's controls, I move out of the way just in time
delivering one final blow to one of the ships, it is destroyed

I must destroy them all, I must kill them as soon as they appear next to me
one of them shoots my metal arm off, with the other I blow out his brains

as I turn to face their ship, I panic, this could be the end
with one arm I will go down fighting till my last breath for Vic
but what is that glitch in the corner of my eye
strange flashes of a checkered surface underneath

glitches in reality

Pat solo

the glitching of reality keeps flashing before my very eyes
until I'm alone in a cube-checkered room and a door in front of me

with a strange feeling of my hand that was gone, I look down and see
I have and can feel both fleshly hands, and I see with my old 2 eyes

as I turn to face their ship, I panic, this could be the end
with one arm I will go down fighting till my last breath for Vic
but what is that glitch in the corner of my eye
strange flashes of a checkered surface underneath

I have escaped from the matrix


(now that you've escaped the matrix to find that globe and space was a fake program along with everything you experienced in life, you can go back and listen to Crossing Infinity and Shark Sustenance as interludes with the new lyrics that reflect how the events happened in a similar way in the new reality. It's in this order on the Across Antarctica 1 album as it reflects how I have to try to re-learn history and try to remember what life and everything is like in this new reality, even though it may be impossible because I may have somehow manifested as a nonexistent figure from a program of 1000 years ago.

Interlude I: catching up on history--the first flight:
Crossing Infinity

my dream of ice travel will finally come true
sonic concorde warp drive, I'll be first to leave the realm
I'll be soaring along the ice, seeing with night vision
visiting the puddles we get to, and meeting new civilizations

but what will happen if they're hostile?
strapping me down and dissecting me?
I hope they won't but it's the risk I'll take
to explore across the ice

coasting the ice-plane, crossing antarctica

off we'll go 'cross antarctica, into endless dark ice-plane
the pitfalls and the possibilities will be our guiding light
explore new realms, discover cures, to save humanity
traveling 'cross antarctica, crossing infinity

crossing antarctica, crossing infinity

exploring new realms and seeing new things
advanced cultures and societies
my dreams realized nothing will stop me
soon as we're ready, we will embark

pre-chorus & chorus

Dan bass solo/Dan guitar solo then repeat pre-chorus & chorus again


Interlude II: what happened to our home-realm--the great flooding:
Shark Sustenance

welcome to this dark future, prepare to witness the end of man
our inevitable end-times
climate-warming now complete, and the flooding has begun
our earth becomes an ocean-realm
there is no where left to run, there is nowhere left to hide
and we do not possess gills
we cannot survive this fate, as the waves engulf us all
we'll either drown or be consumed
drown or be consumed

shark sustenance, end of man
shark sustenance, drown or be consumed

as we try to stay afloat, fall asleep and we will drown
there is nothing we can do
the sharks come for sustenance, they are hungry for our blood
the human race will become prey
aquatic predators will feast, as the ocean becomes red
and we all get devoured
it's the dawning of a new age, on this ocean puddle realm
our extinction is at hand
extinction at hand

shark sustenance, end of man
shark sustenance, extinction at hand

Pat solos

now our final hour comes, the resistance makes us slow
we are trapped in a nightmare
jaws of death tear us apart, predators feasting on man
this ocean realm is our hell
feel our bodies come undone, feel our insides floating out
one more bite will end the pain
we do not survive this fate, the aquatics rule earth-realm
our extinction has arrived
extinction of the human race

shark sustenance, end of man
shark sustenance, extinction has come)

Now it's time for the bonus tracks, Chapter 6 of the story, which close out the Across Antarctica 1 album.