Pax Magellanic

(tune: Woodstock, written by Joni Mitchell, best known as performed by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young)

Well I slipstreamed to Tau Ceti Six
We were looking to win the war
We were going to drive the Nietzscheans
From the planet
We deployed all of our Lancer troops
But it didn't go as Skyfall planned
The battle was looking grim when I scanned it

I'm a starship, I am golden
I'm the legendary ship, Pax Magellanic

When Warrick told me "self-destruct"
I tried to tell him "no"
I didn't want to go
I began stalling
I told him we should run away
The war is lost, we should go free
But since he would not agree,
Slipstream drive went falling

I'm a starship, I am golden
I'm the legendary ship, Pax Magellanic

Herodotus now is asteroids
And war's no longer raging
My new crew never aging, never dying
And I spent the next three hundred years
Flying stranded in the sky
With no tears in my eye
The Dutchman Flying

I'm a starship, I am golden
I'm the legendary ship, Pax Magellanic

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