The Hole in Sector Four

[bnewman]

You can check out of this spatial anomaly any time you like, but...

lyrics by Benjamin Newman

ttto: "Hotel California" by the Eagles

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/ Am - E7 - / G - D - / F - C - / Dm - E - /

 

I had a brush with a comet on the edge of Sector Five

I thought that I would be lucky just to get home alive

All the fuel tanks were empty, the ship was coming apart

Then I detected a beacon that wasn't on the chart

 

I was receiving a signal, but all the readings were strange

Some said it was very close, some said it was out of range

All my sensors went crazy -- what's going on here?

Then all of the stars went out, but the signal was loud and clear:

 

/ F - C - / E7 - Am - / F - C - / Dm - E - /

 

Welcome to the Hole in Sector Four

Such a lovely place, such a folded space

Plenty of room in the Hole in Sector Four

Such a friendly clime, drop in anytime

 

I steered straight for the beacon, I was losing my grip

There was some kind of station there, built from hulks of old ships

Then I heard on the com link:  Please steer in to the dock

Someone will be by to greet you as soon as you clear the lock

 

She was smiling serenely, she said:  It's like this

We've made a kind of a home here in the heart of the abyss

We're just having a party, you're invited of course

Especially since you are trapped here by an irresistable force

 

Welcome to the Hole in Sector Four

Such a lovely place, such a folded space

Livin' it up in the Hole in Sector Four

Drop on by and see our singularity

 

I guess the party was nice but I couldn't take any more

I had to find a passage back to the place I was before

I escaped in a shuttle, I made my main engine burn

All the voice on the com link said was:  See you when you return

 

The beacon fell behind me, its light shifted red

Then I picked it up again, blue-shifted ahead

I suppose that's the downside of a dimensional cleft

You can leave on any course you like, but you won't really have left