The Outer Worlds - Dan Bull

A-one, a-two

A-one, two, three, four

Come on out to the outer worlds

Come on out to the outer worlds

Did you have a dream you could work in space?

Get away from the rat race, immersed in nature?

If you long for better ways to earn your paycheck

Then come along to Halcyon, the worlds await ya

Danger, danger, got to make a good decision

You’re faced with a range of available positions

So pick one quick and then take a trip to live in

This particular destination then begin to make a living

So come on out to the outer worlds

There’s ample opportunity so help yourself

A splash of colours really helps to sell

The promotional utopia surrounding hell

We need workers and you need work

Each occupation brings unique perks

Stop crewing groundbreaker, start moving earth

We’ve got locational vocations for your choosing, serf

Please allow a guy to clarify a few things first

You can skip past the small print, it’s all confusing words

It’s just a technicality that says you have to see the contract

Look!

A technicolour TV, you really want that!

So come on out to the outer worlds

There’s ample opportunity so help yourself

A splash of colours really helps to sell

The promotional utopia surrounding hell, knock, knock

Come on out to the outer worlds

No matter how you’ve felt you’ll seldom fail to tell

It’s a Helter Skelter whirling round and filled

To the hilt with thrills, it’s the outer worlds

Come on out to the outer worlds

Come on out to the outer worlds

Attention, please

Calling all you rejects, we can let you reset

Your standing in society and hide your creepy defects

We can’t agree to higher fees, we’ll hire you for peanuts

But why would we provide what you’re not likely to need yet?

What good’s a budget when you’re fighting ugly creatures,

With the mouth-breathing features of your former DT teacher?

It’s in the manual, standard operational procedure

Been there, done that, stole the bloody t-shirt

We’ve stashed a lot of weapons

To bash somebody’s head in

So be careful what you want

Because it could be what you’re getting

So come on out to the outer worlds

There’s ample opportunity so help yourself

A splash of colours really helps to sell

The promotional utopia surrounding hell, knock, knock

Come on out to the outer worlds

No matter how you’ve felt you’ll seldom fail to tell

It’s a Helter Skelter whirling round and filled

To the hilt with thrills, it’s the outer worlds

A little observation

You wish to rap but it is that’s rhyming

You kind of seem like you’d be alright at mining

Life’s hard but you’re a shining diamond

Just sign the line here beside the hyphens

And I’ll provide you unspoiled horizons

To heightened delight, leave minds enlightened

You’ll find time for fine wine and dining

The highlights of high life or lying in

See the dollars signs?

We are colonising the skies

Follow the economy, it’s gonna provide a sizeable

Income, just wait and see, but it isn’t for the little man

The HHC’s gonna take it and make him pay the fee

His salary’s another technicality that we

Just have to seem as if we’re carrying out the instructions

Till it’s adjusted to account for some deductions

We’re packing stacks of ammo

Shred flesh and crack enamel

So be careful how you spend your cash

Or you might have to haggle

So come on out to the outer worlds

There’s ample opportunity so help yourself

A splash of colours really helps to sell

The promotional utopia surrounding hell, knock, knock

Come on out to the outer worlds

No matter how you’ve felt you’ll seldom fail to tell

It’s a Helter Skelter whirling round and filled

To the hilt with thrills, it’s the outer worlds

Come on out to the outer worlds

Come on out to the outer worlds

Get stronger, live longer

Lift up those digits, numbers

Dictate mind, body, and your personality

So quick, hey my, buddy pick your speciality

Hitting people with sticks or finer technicalities

You’ll find a set of qualities to fit your partiality

Whatever your talent there’s a planet to inhabit

Here’s an opportunity and all you’ve got to do is grab it

Slaving all day, no vacation break or Sabbaths

'Cause labour makes us happier than rabbits given carrots

So come on and give it a go, pal

But if you don’t wanna, oh well

There’s another dozen suckers up for working, no doubt

So shall we?

It’s low salary but we don’t need to save

These rates of fatalities are so great

That your mortality is a formality

The longer you stay healthy the more chance of a malady

We’re shilling medication

To make you better paying

Customers under sedation

Revamp work as recreation

Brainwashing as education

Lack of thought as meditation

Capital needs generation

And you’re just the gent to make it

So come on out to the outer worlds

There’s ample opportunity so help yourself

A splash of colours really helps to sell

The promotional utopia surrounding hell, knock, knock

Come on out to the outer worlds

Come on out to the outer worlds

Come on out to the outer worlds

Come on out, come on out

Come on out to the outer worlds