The song does go beyond 2001 into the somewhat more obscure sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact, which was made in the 1980s (based on the book 2010: Odyssey Two). In the sequel, they find the ship from the first movie and the HAL9000 is reactivated, and it is discovered that the HAL had received conflicting orders which went against its programming and that drove it to a mental breakdown. That is where the "I just can't see through all these lies." line comes from in the song.
The new star rising is actually Jupiter. A massive group of monoliths suddenly show up and start multiplying in Jupiter's atmosphere, they start changing its density and chemical composition. Jupiter reaches critical mass and ignites into a star, and suddenly we are all living in a binary system. I thought 2010 was a decent enough movie, it just gets so overshadowed by 2001.
The song does go beyond 2001 into the somewhat more obscure sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact, which was made in the 1980s (based on the book 2010: Odyssey Two). In the sequel, they find the ship from the first movie and the HAL9000 is reactivated, and it is discovered that the HAL had received conflicting orders which went against its programming and that drove it to a mental breakdown. That is where the "I just can't see through all these lies." line comes from in the song. The new star rising is actually Jupiter. A massive group of monoliths suddenly show up and start multiplying in Jupiter's atmosphere, they start changing its density and chemical composition. Jupiter reaches critical mass and ignites into a star, and suddenly we are all living in a binary system. I thought 2010 was a decent enough movie, it just gets so overshadowed by 2001.