I stand in this world, a cartesian place,
A ghostly white axis cuts the night overhead.
A thousand and twenty-four stars shine in space,
Most of them white, just a few of them red.
The planets trace orbits round a faceted sun,
Rotated, translated and scaled in size.
The galaxies turn and the asteroids run
As my world is transformed right infront of my eyes...
And we go...
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The room that I'm in has a texture-mapped floor
And eight lights that shine on a table and chair.
Applying a matrix to open the door
A model walks in, there's a shine on her hair.
I transform my eye-point to lookat her face
She's a - shaded lady from some memory heap;
With my eye and a sigh I go round to her place
But I shouldn't pick her cos she's only skin deep.
And we go...
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I'm stirring the mouse and my Harrier flies
Over mountains and cities and fractal domains,
My frustum diverges through alpha-pink skies
With billboarded clouds over depth-cued terrains.
The frame-rate is great thanks to - vector thrust
But flying by rodent is really a pain;
A mountain approaches, avoid it I must.
But collision's detected, and I see stars again...
And we go...
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Music & lyrics © Dan Bennett 1997