Microsoft Enters the Ring

Lyrics

[Intro]
November 15, 2001.
The living room smells like new plastic and hot solder.

[Verse 1]
You're heavier than I expected.
A black brick on the carpet.
A big green X flares to life, a wound in the dark.
They call this controller "The Duke."
It fills my hands like a weapon.
Your power brick is warming the floor, a quiet, humming heart.

[Chorus]
And the giant from Redmond enters the ring.
A DirectX Box, a promise you bring.
A Pentium III core, an nVidia soul.
Taking over a space you intend to control.
This is the invasion.
This is Halo on the screen.
The most beautiful, violent thing I have ever seen.

[Verse 2]
I remember Gates on the stage back in 2000.
Seamus Blackley's team in Redmond, Building 9.
Burning capacitors in the prototype runs.
Forging a future, one line at a time.
They put an Ethernet port in you, a wire to the world.
A flag planted here as a new war unfurled.

[Chorus]
And the giant from Redmond has entered the ring.
A DirectX Box, a promise you bring.
A Pentium III core, an nVidia soul.
Taking over a space you intend to control.
This is the invasion.
This is Halo on the screen.
The most beautiful, violent thing I have ever seen.

[Bridge]
The disc tray whirs open, a silent command.
Master Chief steps out on a strange, alien land.
This isn't a plumber, this isn't a hedgehog's race.
This is combat evolved, in time and in space.
And a year from tonight, on November 15, 2002...
We'll all be connected. All because of you.

[Outro]
The triggers click.
The green X glows.
The carpet is warm.
The fight has begun.