Dm
(Greetings ladies and gentlemen of Earth and all native intelligences of the forty planets
with contestants entered in the annual Grande Trex, the only inter-universe race.
This year’s event promises excitement to surpass all previous races.
As many of you fans know already the route or track of the race has been increased
by five thousand million kilometres, thus allowing the Grande Trex to include the B-Arc 15 system!)
[Verse 1]
DmC
Dragonfly, dragonfly
BbDm
Satellite, strike and fight
DmC
Laser light, shot tonight
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Target nullified, gyro subdivide
DmC
Latitude, longitude
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Satellite, solid substitute
DmC
Dragonfly are revise
[Chorus]
BbC
What’s a drag race? Can’t you see those..
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dragons speeding up the street?
BbC
But I learned they weren’t real,
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figments of the ancient sphere.
[Verse 2]
DmC
Rapid scan, radiance
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for the chance to win the Grande
DmC
Manoeuvres, pre-program
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Windage won’t operate.
DmC
Negative, bearing swell
[Chorus]
BbC
Dragons fly, they symbolise
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in myth and saga breathing fire
BbC
Look up, there’s one flying higher
BbC
faster than the SSC
BbC
Is science hiding witchery?
Dm
(Grande Trex fans throughout the universe are well informed on the risks the pilots
take in entering this race. Re-entry into some of the alien atmospheres is tricky business
which can cause a craft to implode; explode; melt; lose atomic structure and so forth,
adding to the interstellar terrain that on its own is a terrific danger to the ships en route.
The craft are scheduled to launch at oh-seven-five-one-hundred Greenwich Mean Time
and assembled on one our very own stars, Neutron Einstar EV9. And the excitement is at a fever pitch
as the countdown approaches zero!)
[Chorus]
DmC
Dragonfly, rations glide
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in free fall slide, systems nullified
DmC
Satellite, dragonfly
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Surface launch, radio silence
DmC
Hover high, Level off
[Verse 3]
BbC
The time space tactics saved us then
BbC
display report present urgent
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Sequence counting, surface launch
BbC
Dragonfly destroying all.
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Science claiming newest findings
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Chanting calling flying dragons
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Aboard all systems optimum
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Nova scheduled, war continued
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Half the continental shelf
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burned by interval
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interval
Dm
(We have retained as an added feature for daring thrills and excitement in this race—a feature
which I’m sure you’re going to like—a computer override lasting three and half and hours or two gens
in which pilots and copilots manually control free fall; latitude; longitude; protract gravity;
revise dimensional equations, run program checks, submerge in the wild oceans of Jonrin 22,
and photograph as much territory and terrain as they can in addition to the requisite
three thousand automatic shots. The postulate for mischance runs high, but not as high as the tension
and competitive spirit right here and all over the galaxy!)
BbDm
[Chorus]
DmC
Dragonfly, dragonfly
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Beacons aim, space game
(Countdown is negative two hundred and I am turning you over to the control room
and command central for the launch.)
DmC
Satellite, computerised
(Good luck to all the entrants and especially to our own ship, the Dragonfly!)
BbDm
Sonic glide, hypersonic glide
(Beacons, lasers, quasars mounted on deck; rapid survey reactor; failsafe radians)
[Outro]
DmC
Win the race, calibrate
BbDm
re-entry place, multi failsafe