A COSMIC ROCK JOURNEY

UNIVERSE is concept album that takes viewers on a musical and theatric journey around the galaxy and back.

Glenn Lowe’s original score and video features Pilot 1 going on a hero's journey that ends with an uplifting message: Every one of us has a line in a verse of a song called Universe.

You can be part of the journey by following the script & lyrics below...

OVERVIEW

The year is 2055. Space exploration has accelerated in the past 30 years. Of particular interest to space researchers is an area at the edge of the solar system beyond the Kuiper Belt called the Parallax Enigma, also known as the Void.

NASA has sent numerous probes to the Void to further study the unusual physics there – they believe understanding the Void will usher in the next scientific revolution to move humanity forward.

EMERGE

We are alone when we enter the earth
We emerge
From above you see the morning light
You are alive
Here you must stay while you can
Try to understand
We are here as a witness to it all
A miracle
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AQUAMARINE

Spinning on an axis toward eternity
Dinosaurs rule the land
Mermaids swim the sea

Aquamarine
A world of blue and green
From one to the other extreme
And everything in between
Aquamarine

I came upon a gemstone
Held it close and dear
Fell into a kaleidoscope
Of hopes and dreams and fear

Aquamarine a jewel
Of blue and green
With mysterious properties
In which to believe
Aquamarine

Hurling around the sun
Each and every year
Making the same mistakes
We talk but we don't hear

Aquamarine a world
Of blue and green
Learn from history
Rinse and repeat

Aquamarine a world
Of blue and green
A beautiful sight unseen
Forever in aquamarine

FLYING SOLO

Climbing in the cockpit on a maiden flight
I’ve been granted passage to disappear out of sight
Flying solo sit back and watch the show
As you lift off the ground into the clouds flying solo

Where the sky is all your own and you never feel alone
Watching geometry pass below with eyes of a sparrow
Escalating anticipating turbulence will be found
Feel your heart race entering space never coming down

Flying solo on and on you go
Accelerating, exhilarating adrenaline does flow
Then back to a place where few who dream dare or will ever know
Flying solo on and on you go
Navigation employed to the Void flying solo

ROCKET SHIP

(MC): T minus 5 minutes … T minus 5 minutes. Pilot 1, this is Mission Control. Mission Base is on standby. Ready for Stage 1 ignition.

(Pilot 1): Mission Control, this is Pilot 1, Affirmative. Waiting for your go.

(MC): Copy that, pre-launch checks complete, Stage 1 is a go.

Do you believe in miracles like I do
Do you believe in me
Like I believe in you
Then come with there’s much to see
As we take a trip on a rocket ship

If every day is biblical big and true
If you believe in miracles
It's not so hard to do
Come with me to discovery
Through time we slip
Aboard a rocket ship

Chasing a shooting star
Passing Venus and onto Mars
Defying gravity in my wildest dreams

Do you believe in miracles like I do
Do you believe in me
Like I believe in you
Come with me through the mystery
As we take a trip
Aboard a rocket ship
Aboard a rocket ship

TAKING FLIGHT IN ORBIT

(Pilot 1): Mission Control, pre-flight looking good

(MC): Copy that Pilot 1. Engine Ignition underway … go for launch

(8 ... 7... 6 ... )
Counting down
Building up inside of me
Calculate a best-known trajectory
Breaking free you feel it
Taking flight in orbit

Running to the thermosphere
The emptiness of space so clear
In harmony with gravity
Taking flight in orbit
Taking flight in orbit

Round and round humanity
Establishing stability
Five times hypersonic
On a path in orbit

Taking flight in orbit
Taking flight in orbit

(5.. 4 .. 3 ...)
Counting down
Building up inside of me
Calculate a best known trajectory
Breaking free you feel it

Taking flight in orbit
Taking flight in orbit
Taking flight in orbit

(Pilot 1): I tell you what, it is so beautiful up here

(MC): Copy that, Copernicus. I wish I had the view you do right now.

(Pilot 1): I copy that, it’s quite a sight, over.

(MC): Continuing to monitor flight profile … all systems normal.

FANTASTIC JOURNEY

Chasing comets on our way to the stars
A tour of the solar system Mercury, Venus and Mars
Push back in your seat after burners burning
Take you on a fantastic journey

Take my hand and we will go so far
From apogee to perigee ordinary to bizarre
Piloting an unknown trajectory on a fantastic journey

Slingshot around the sun, anomalies on the run
We are sent tumbling to where we’re going

Take my hand and nothing ever can go wrong
Halfway across the Milky Way still going strong
For each other keep the fire burning
On a fantastic journey

Slingshot around the sun, next stop oblivion
Deep into outer space as we leave the human race

TURBULENCE

(Pilot 1): Mission Control, the ride is getting a little bumpy up here on Copernicus, over?

(MC): Radar shows more turbulence along current path, Pilot 1. Course adjustment 15 degrees starboard on my mark

(Pilot 1): Copy that ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 .... mark, adjusting 15 degrees starboard.

All your life you've been fortunate
To be on the side of providence
Well good for you
Are you ready for round two
Put on your best defense
And ride turbulence

It will take you round and round
It will shake you to the ground
Turbulence, turbulence, turbulence

It’ll send you into a tumble
You may never recover
From turbulence
Watch out for turbulence
Watch out for turbulence
Watch out for turbulence
Turbulence

HOURGLASS OF TIME

(Pilot 1): Mission Base, seems to be straightening out now

(MC): Copy that - your vitals were looking somewhat irregular through the turbulence, over.

Down I go pushed from behind
Falling through the hourglass of time
So fast it goes to the end of the line
To the bottom of the hourglass of time

Is there someone to talk to
In my hour of need
Who I can look up to
When I'm on my knees

One who understands me
When I'm feeling blue
So I sift through sand to find
Someone like you

The thought of you
Is running through my mind
Falling through the hourglass of time

SEA OF LOVE

Falling through the hourglass time
In search of the divine to feel you all around me
Dive into a sea of love, you’re all I am thinking of
Dive into a sea of love, you’re all I am thinking of
Thinking of

Dive into a sea of love swimming through the stars above To know you, to love you
Dive into a sea of love, you’re all I am thinking of
Dive into a sea of love, you’re all I am thinking of
Thinking of

Falling through the hourglass of time
In search of the divine to feel you all around me

(MB): Mission Control, you seem a little distracted - where’s your mind at right now?

(MC): I’m just concerned about Pilot 1 getting back. Oh no, are we transmitting right now?

(Pilot 1): Mission Control this is Pilot 1 – yes you were transmitting - do you mind if I call you by your first name?

(MC): That works Pilot 1 - you can call me Eve. Do you copy Copernicus?

NOSEDIVE

Mission Control … Pilot 1? … Mission Control …. Pilot 1? … Mission Control

Caught in a nosedive
Flash before my eyes
In a nosedive I left it all behind

Pilot 1? Do you read? Pilot 1? Do you read?

Caught in a nosedive
Chaos rules my mind
In a nosedive I left it all behind
Mission Control

Pilot 1? Remember your training. Pilot 1? Remember your training
Mission Control Pilot 1? Mission Control

Caught in a nosedive
Chaos rules my mind
In a nosedive
Caught in a nosedive

(MC): Pilot One, this is Mission Base requesting a Situation Report, over.

(Pilot 1): Mission Base, this is Copernicus, all systems returning to normal.

(MC): Copy that Pilot 1. Checking in on your rest-activity cycle; according to the sleep-wake schedule you should be getting some sleep here at 0200

LOST IN A DREAM

Challenging my imagination sharing stories of every constellation
Gazing up at the vast Milky Way compels me to say
You are my universe bound by your gravity
Starlight burning bright
And when I lay my head on my pillow at night
As simple as it seems I get lost in a dream
Dreaming of you, dreaming of you

Revolving evolving as we are together
Tossing, turning in my bed whenever
Thinking what if our love drifted away then I heard you say
You are my world of possibility
Traveling through time the rhythm to the rhyme
And when I lay my head on my pillow at night
As simple as it seems I get lost in a dream
Dreaming of you, dreaming of you
Ooooh oooo dreaming of you

You are my universe bound by your gravity
Starlight burning bright
And when I lay my head on my pillow at night
As simple as it seems I get lost in a dream
You are my world of possibility
Traveling through time the rhythm to the rhyme
And when you lay your head on my shoulder at night
As simple as it seems I get lost in a dream
Dreaming of you, dreaming of you
Ooooh oooo dreaming of you
Dreaming of you, oh dreaming of you, dreaming of you

(MC): Pilot 1 - this is your wake-up call. How are the rings looking out your window, over?

(Pilot 1): That is affirmative on the rings of Saturn wow, those rings go on forever.

SATURN

Dim is the sunlight
On an alien flight
Through dark matter
Pale is the blue dot
As seen from Jupiter's spot
Ice and rock scatter
From the rings of Saturn

Moonscape inviting
On the lakes of Titan
Methane rain pitter patter
Space probes passing by
Watch as I fly
In concentric patterns
Between the rings of Saturn

Turn like a record round
Playing an eerie sound
Wispy voices chatter
Planets and planetoids
Take us into the void
We can be happy together

Circling skyward higher and higher
Into forever together
Beyond the rings of Saturn

THE VOID

(MC): Copernicus, ready for you to begin experiments, we are standing by to receive data

(Pilot 1): Copy that, Eve.

(MC): Your signal is breaking up Pilot 1 – say again. Mission Base we’re no longer tracking Pilot 1. We’re at the point where we’ve lost the last 2 missions. Let’s not let that happen again today.

(Mission Base): Mission Control, this is Mission base, tracking all frequencies, over.

(MC): Copy that Mission Base – do what it takes to get him back

DARK MATTER

(Pilot 1): Mission Control this is Pilot 1 - transmitting experiment data. The physics I’m seeing here in the Void are mind blowing. Are you there Eve, do you copy, over.

If you believe in me like I believe in you
Nothing else matters
If the trust is in us as we go with the flow of time
The hourglass shatters
So far from the sun to oblivion through dark matter

Comet dust and asteroids
Are companions in the void
Meteor shower so refreshing

On our way to Planet X
Hold on the Ort cloud is next
On a trip never ending

If the universe is far greater than you ever imagined
And if you see something strange you can't explain
Put the blame on dark matter
So far from the sun to oblivion through dark matter

Galaxies from afar look like fuzzy stars
But they're so much more

On a rocket ship with me
Next stop Andromeda Galaxy
So much to explore through dark matter

Sit back enjoy the show
It gets darker the further you go
When you think there's no end in sight
You see the light

LIAR'S DICE

(Pilot 1): Mission Control, this is Pilot 1. Coming through that void, my instrumentation seems to be a little off. I don’t even know where I’m at right now. Nothing seems familiar.

(MC): Mission Base – We’re now getting an intermittent signal from Pilot 1. The good news is we’ve received all his experiment data and it looks great - Outbound mission complete at 14:20 hours Zulu.

Fool me once fool me twice
In a game of liar’s dice
Shake the cup and let it roll
Off we go

Play a game of liar’s dice
The solution hides in plain sight
Fool me once fool me twice
Liar's dice

If I am to believe
You're trying you deceive
When stakes are so high

If we leave it to chance
Will we ever dance
Roll the dice
Fool me once fool me twice
In a game of liar's dice

We are co-pilots to the stars
Together we’ve come so far
Drifting in space

You’re my universe
For better or for worse
Give it to me straight
The hour is late
I don’t wanna play anymore
I don’t play this game anymore
I don’t wanna play

Fool me once fool me twice
Play the game of liar’s dice

CO-PILOT

(Pilot 1): I really wish you were out here with me right now, with me right now, Eve

Caught in a nosedive
Flying blind
All my instruments
Are rendered useless
There's nothing I can do

I need you to be my
Co-pilot to see me through
My co-pilot
To keep the navigation true
When the flight plan
Says it's time to land
Set me down safely on the ground

We've survived
Through the hourglass of time
Cosmic chaos, micrometeroids
Drifting through an endless void
Answer the call
To stop this downward spiral

I need my co-pilot to see us through
I need my co-pilot
To keep the navigation true
When the flight plan
Says it's time to land
Set us down safely on the ground

You know it's hard
Traveling the stars
When all your instruments
Are rendered useless
And there's nothing you can do

Let me be your co-pilot
To see you through
Your co-pilot
To keep the navigation true
When the flight plan
Says it's time to land
I'll set us down safely on the ground
I'll set us down safely on the ground

SAGITTARIUS

This is the story of the constellation Sagittarius
Chiron the wounded healer
Half man half animal
Arrows flame across Heaven
Demanding your attention altering perception

Gave up immortality for someone else in need
Bringing out the best in us
Arrows flame across the universe
Asking what would you do
With nothing to gain and everything to lose

All around the world fire in the sky
Look to the heavens do you see your reflection
Yeah yeah yeah

Among the stars I wandered through space and time
On a cosmic journey into the light
Will I survive because it’s good to be alive

My advice to you my friends is to keep on dreaming
And when you get a chance
Look up to the stars
Look up to the stars
See you are, see you are
Look up to the stars
And be you who you are
Look up to the stars
And be who you are

THE OTHER SIDE

Take me to the other side, take me to the other side
Take me to the other side, take me to the other side
I’ve been waiting all my life
I am ready for a cosmic journey
Take me to the other side, take me to the other side
How do you know what can be
Unless you take a cosmic journey now
Take me to the other side, take me to the other side

INTO THE LIGHT

(Pilot 1): Mission Control this is Copernicus – I’m seeing a bright, white light ahead – requesting permission to investigate, over

(MC): Affirmative Copernicus – but proceed with caution

Some people don't understand
When you got your head in the sand
You see what you want to see
Nightmare instead of a dream

When you wear someone else's shoes
You do something you'd never do
Even if you don't agree
Some part of you begins to believe

Out of the dark
Ness the night
Into the light

In the beginning of the end
Your enemy becomes a friend
From the darkness of the night
Comes a light that shines so bright

Out of the dark
Ness the night
Comes a light that shines so bright
Into the light , into the light

Days come and go so fast
How can we make it last
Don't let things get in the way
Be thankful for each and ever day
Out of the dark
Ness of the night
Out of the darkness and
Into the light

IMPOSSIBLE DREAM

(Pilot 1): I must have blacked out, I was lost in a dream.

(MC): Roger that Pilot 1 – we’ll be continuing to watch your CO2 levels. over.

You only see what you want to see
You only hear what you want to hear
Turn who you are meant to be
Into a reality

You only feel what you want to feel
It's only real if you make it real
The time is now to express yourself
It's your life to make and nobody else

If you're willing to take a chance
What you're hoping for is well within your grasp
When you choose to take a stance
You will get there at long last

But you better be prepared for all that is to come
For it is to come
Because it's waiting for you
In your impossible dream

Who would expect to believe that this could happen so fast
There must be a way to make this feeling last
Open the door and see all the possibilities
If you're ready to face the truth
Your impossible dream will be waiting

Leave your troubles behind and
Open the door to your impossible dream

CALLING ALL GALAXIES

(Pilot 1): Ship’s log 287 - Primary Navigation Control has system-wide failure. There’s a possibility Void physics are affecting main controls as hypothesized. The physics seem to have their own rules out here - I’m having trouble maintaining focus.

Calling all galaxies is there anyone out there
I'm living on a spiral arm on the edge of nowhere
Calling all galaxies for truth or dare
Coming face to face with my wildest dreams and my darkest fears
Spinning round the Milky Way as it slowly drifts away
Further and further through gamma rays

Calling all entities from here to eternity
We're all made-up of star stuff can you help me
What is the nature of the universe voices sing in a space chorus
Do you feel the same the same way too

Calling all galaxies calling all realities
Calling all destiny for possibility
Calling all galaxies anyone who cares
I'm living on a spiral arm on the edge of nowhere
From the first moment in time cosmic connection read my mind
Don't give up on me and leave me behind

SPACE AND TIME

(Pilot 1): Mission Control, this is Pilot 1, there’s no way I can get back; I’ve lost control of the ship. Let everyone know I did everything I could…

(MC): I can’t accept this Pilot 1 – I’m going to keep trying – I need you to keep trying too.

Sometimes you don't know where the answers lie
And the further you go the more you wonder why
It's not over now this isn't goodbye
We'll meet again someday somewhere

In space and time, in space and time
Space and time

In the moment when you must
Find your own way
You never are alone we all lay
In the cradle rocking on the edge
Of the milky way
Take comfort in the strange found between

Space and time
Between space and time
Space and time

When you don't know what's real
And what's in your mind
That's where we will meet someday

In space and time
Space and time
Space and time
Space and time
It’s not over now, this isn’t goodbye

(MC): Pilot 1 do you copy? Do you copy? Please come in, Pilot 1 … Godspeed. Mission Base, Copernicus 3 is a success, even though I have to tell you now, I’ve gotten a last transmission - Pilot 1 won’t be coming back…. it’s time to call it - the mission is over. You did everything you could, we all did.

(MB): Mission Control, can you confirm, Pilot 1 is not returning from the mission?

UNIVERSE

Flickering, brightly shining
It can be spell binding
Watching lights shoot across the sky

I am the universe, you are the universe
Traveling among the stars
Never knowing who we are
So we search across the universe

Living among the orbs together
They could go on like this forever
Finding a home inside the Milky Way

She is his universe, he is her universe
Bound by each other's gravity
For all eternity
For better or for worse in their own universe

Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah

Every constellation captures imagination
Telling stories of our lives

We are the universe
We are the universe
Rising up from the dust
Every one of us
Has a line in a verse of a song called Universe

We are the universe
For better or for worse
We are the universe

(MC): Pilot 1 - I love you. Mission Base we only have a small window before this leaks to the press. You were so close to him. I think you’re the right person to tell the immediate family.

(MB): Copy that, it won’t be easy, but yeah, I’ll do it.

(MB): Mission Control you need to hear this. I’m picking up a signal – it could be Pilot 1.

(MC): Pilot one is that you? Come in. Copernicus - Do you copy?

(Pilot 1): Mission Control, Eve, I’m gonna try one more thing, it could work, stand by.

MAXIMUM VELOCITY

Maximum velocity optimal trajectory
Maximum velocity hold on tight
You're gonna break free

Maximum velocity optimal trajectory
Maximum velocity next stop to my destiny

Look up to the stars and see who you are
Look up to the stars and be who you are

(MB): I’ve got to get back to tell you this, over?

Maximum velocity optimal trajectory
Maximum velocity next stop to my destiny

CAN'T FLY TRUE

(Pilot 1): Mission Control, this is Copernicus, I made it through, somehow

(MC): oh you did it Pilot 1 – well done. We’ll be plotting the best course for your return, stand by.

(Pilot 1): Standing by, I couldn’t have made it without you Eve

(MC): Mission Base, we have confirmation - Pilot 1 is returning.

(MB): Copy that Mission Control. Thank God

(MC): We have you on radar Pilot 1. What do you need right now?

Requesting clearance for my return
It was worth the trip for what I’ve learned

Without you I don’t know what I’d do
There’s no reason just no meaning
Without you I don’t know what I’d do
I can’t fly true without you

We go looking for what is not
Instead of taking what we got

Without you I don’t know what I’d do
There’s no reason just no meaning
Without you I don’t know what I’d do
I can’t fly true without you

Without you I can’t fly true
I don’t know what I’d do there’s no reason
Without you I don’t know what I’d do
I can’t fly true without you

(MC): You did it Pilot 1 –

(Pilot 1): No, we did it Eve.

(MC): In your last transmission, it sounded like you were trying to tell us something. What was it?

(Pilot 1): Let me sing it for you.

Thank You

Thank you for being such an important part of our cosmic rock journey. Look up to the stars!

A COSMIC ROCK JOURNEY

UNIVERSE is concept album that takes viewers on a musical and theatric journey around the galaxy and back. Glenn Lowe’s original score and video features Pilot 1 going on a hero's journey that ends with an uplifting message: Every one of us has a line in a verse of a song called Universe.

You can be part of the journey by following the script & lyrics below...