Flying on a Rainbow

[billroper]

There are days that I want a warp drive so *badly*. :)

And today, it got me a new song. I hope you like it!

Words and Music: Bill Roper
Copyright 2024

Flying on a Rainbow

Fire the engines, start the drive.
Watch the warp field come alive.
The time has come for this young bird to fly.
Space stirred up into a foam
Where leptons, quarks, and gluons roam
Leaves a contrail running cross the sky.

(Chorus)
We’re flying on a rainbow,
Pushing past the speed of light.
I’ll meet you there tomorrow
On the far side of tonight.


A warp drive is a tricky thing
With current pulsing round the ring
To bend a hole for us in time and space.
Our energy has got to flow
And so it does, before you know,
Our ship will slip away to run the race.

That energy will leave a track
Out behind us looking back
As we fly faster than the speed of light.
Violet, blue, on down to red,
A rainbow trails us where we sped
And leaves our mark to shine across the night.

(Bridge to chorus)
Our rainbow’s light is bright enough to shine across the galaxy
And in a couple million years, Andromeda will surely see.

Now we’re searching for the rainbow’s light
Leaving traces in the night
In galaxies we see both near and far.
Looking for another track
To tell us life is looking back,
That we are not the only lucky star.

(Chorus twice)