Title: A Magic Loophole
Composer: Gary "MoFilker" Hanak
Key: Em

vs1:
The sky is clear and bright
From here we soon depart
In our starships to the light
Of suns far distant--when we start
We know we travel back in time
A thing we weren't supposed to do
But we found a way around Einstein
A way to bend the laws we knew

ch1:
We found a magic loophole--
We can skip over the distance
We can fold the space--move like a mole,
Not yield to the insistance
Of Natural Law's demand we crawl
Through miles and years of empty space
But we don't really know the path at all
Just the endpoints of the race.

vs2:
We chart our ways with care
Since there are bumps along the way
Black holes, neutron stars that stare
And which can lead us all...astray
We don't know the consequences
Of stepping on those cosmic tacks
From that surprise nudge felt beyond your senses
No one ever has come back

ch1:
We found a magic loophole--
That lets us skip over the distance
We can fold the space--move like a mole,
Not yield to the insistance
Of Natural Law's demand we crawl
Through miles and years of empty space
But we don't really know the path at all
Just the endpoints of the race.

bridge:
Our 'starships' can only travel between a local system's worlds
The best can dive a little in the seas
But to journey between the stars you've got to fly with sails furled
And fold your way between the suns you see
We know the ports of lading, the worlds and stations in the light
That terminate our journeys through the dark
But what's between the ports, what lies in shadow in the night
We know less about than a chimpanzee does quarks

(instrumental)

vs3:
But we continue with our cruising
Out we go by leaps and bounds
And though most find it amusing
There's a few might wish they'd drowned
Because there's some who don't complete the course
With no traces ever found
Where they are, if they are dead or worse
Is a question which will forever us confound

ch2:
Yes, we have a magic loophole--
But with magic, there's a price
We may fold space and move like a mole
But there's traps of some device
We don't know what's out there in the night
Once lost, no path's retraced
From that nudge felt out beyond the light
In the dark of empty space

We don't know what's out there in the night
Once lost, no path's retraced
From that nudge felt out beyond the light
In the dark of empty space