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Escape the Rift (The story)

[Verse 1] Saturday morning, VR headsets on, Building our own world till the afternoon's gone. Talking mice, floating islands, impossible skies, A million wild ideas all coming alive. Filling the Logbook, adding one more, Tiny new mouses like the hundreds before. Then the colours bent sideways, the ground wouldn't sit, And everything changed with a Black Hole glitch. [Pre-Chorus] Wait... Are you seeing this too? This isn't virtual anymore. [Chorus] Escape the Rift, hold on tight, We're chasing daylight through the storm tonight. We were creators yesterday, Now we're running through the worlds we made. From the edge of a dream to the end of existence, Every choice leaves a mark that persists. If imagination made all this, Can we find a way to Escape the Rift? [Verse 2] Pink Planet skies and lemonade falls, Sherbet clouds hanging over it all. Through the pink, through space we fly, To the Nimbus Isles way up high. Then danger catches up and the bridges all break, And we fall through the clouds that lay in its wake. To a world of green where the vines come alive, Emerald shadows reaching from every side. [Chorus] Escape the Rift, hold on tight, We're chasing daylight through the storm tonight. We were creators yesterday, Now we're running through the worlds we made. From cloud-top dreams to jungle mists, Every answer hides another twist. If imagination made all this, Can we find a way to Escape the Rift? [Verse 3] Crossing volcanic islands under crimson light, Something watching us out in the night. Tiny demon mice with fire in their eyes, Like somebody else was pulling their minds. Bizarro Bay where the physics went wrong, Clocks that forgot how to keep time moving on. Rippleglass reflections showing futures ahead, Questions we'd rather not ask instead. [Verse 4] Junktopia built from rust and scrap, Searching for pieces of a forgotten map. The rocket stands where we left it behind, But getting there's another climb. Out across a sea made of sleeping steel, Mechanical sharks that looked too real. One wrong move and we were done, But friendship kept carrying us on. [Verse 5 - building] Into Glooms Hallow where the black sand breathes, Ghostly music drifting through the gnarly trees. Finding the builder we'd forgotten we'd made, And learning every choice has a price to be paid. The rocket was waiting where the scrap dunes end, Surrounded by memories and long time friends. The sky was collapsing, the Penta-peh-lah-goes cried, As we climbed aboard for one last ride. [Bridge - quiet] One by one we're starting to see, Every mouse is more than we believed. More than a drawing, More than a name, More than the role for which they were made. [BUILD] The sky is collapsing, Some islands are gone. We have to keep moving, We really don't have long. Through every adventure, Through everything missed. Through every impossible moment like this. The rocket is waiting, Then the console turns on. "Welcome onboard, Creators." [Final Bridge] We thought we were running from a monster. We thought we knew who to blame. But what if the thing in the darkness Was hurting all the same? What if every world deserves saving? What if every story can change? What if the Rift between creator and creation Was never too wide to bridge? [Final Chorus - huge] ESCAPE THE RIFT, HOLD ON TIGHT! THROUGH FALLING STARS AND FRACTURED LIGHT! We were creators yesterday, But the worlds we made have changed us too. From Pink Planet skies to Junktopia, Through every impossible thing we've been through. The memories remain. The friendships persist. We're more than the people who started this. And if imagination can become real, If broken worlds can learn to heal, Then together we'll cross every abyss... TOGETHER WE'LL ESCAPE THE RIFT. [Outro - Spoken] We thought we were building a world. We didn't know it was building us too. [Soft Sung] Escape the Rift... Escape the Rift... The Mice-verse still exists.... Escape the Rift...