Paul Shapera
The Rescue Plan
[Lee]
Why’d you try to face them? You should have died today and
I know I’ve been so cold, unkind
I mourn the joy I lost, I miss the boy I loved
I felt betrayed again, maligned

Angel of mercy, spare just one second for me
The last sweet solace I may know

[Rachael]
One day, the walls will fall away, and in the open air I’ll race
These bars of yearning and desire, I will not sit and rot inside
Angel of mercy, spare just one second for me
The last sweet solace I may know

[Mascot 3000]
Time to go
Why must so much this emotion run awry?
Your love long lost a lovely plot, but tedious at times
Don’t you know
Broken hearts and trust and stories when they lay
A chapter soon the plot resumes, we simply turn the page

[Lee]
But just how did you make it? They didn’t kill you, they just
Left you unharmed and alone
In all the years I’ve been here, I’ve never seen one spared, there’s
There’s something here that we don’t know
Angel of mercy, spare just one second for me
The last sweet solace I may know

[Rachael]
I thought they’d kill me, but they weren’t as awful as you said they were
Like dreams that faded long ago, it seems there’s something there I know
Angel of mercy, spare just one second for me
The last sweet solace I may know

[Mascot 3000]
Time to go
Anticipating, I’ve been waiting for this time
The plans I have to bring you back, the climax has arrived
Time to go
There are two roads and a choice each one must make
To see the sun in New Albion rise another day

Inside me is an MCG, version three fourteen, and with it I can take each
Of your minds and upload and transmit them home
Live as code you’ll be, analogue consciousness like me

Or it’s not too late, you can go through the gate
Yes you’ll die for a time, but you’ll reincarnate
Take a chance, role the dice, a different body, different life
But you now must decide, we are soon out of time
[Lee]
Where’s the choice where we walk out?

[Mascot 3000]
That’s not an option then or now
Quickly, you must choose and divide yourselves in two
Rachael and I will run the MCG for those who choose
But Lee, you yourself must upload, your father begged me to tell you so

[Lee]
I will, but first before I do
I stay with Rachael til it’s through

And when it’s done sometimes you cannot smile

[Rachael]
Sometimes the race is just that long last mile

[Lee]
But sometimes you learn to like a whole new style. After…

[Rachael]
Lee! Lee! Lee, get up! Get up! Why?!

[Mascot 3000]
A thin breath away
Til your time is done
The monsters and days you wished far away
At last they have come