Watching From Stone to Chrome

Verse 1

Before the beep

Before the spark

Before we learned to fly

Something cold in polar black

Just watching from on high

Not a rock

Not a god

Not a trick of the light

Parking in the dark

Where the sun don't shine right

Pre-Chorus

Colorado

1899

Tesla heard the beat

Clicking through the static

Like a heart in repeat

Chorus

Oh Black Knight

Are you lonely?

13,000 years alone

Black Knight

You don't know me

But you've been watching us

From stone to chrome

Keep your orbit

Keep your secret

In the dark above the blue

Black Knight

Are you coming?

Or are we coming for you

Verse 2

Long Delay Echoes

Over Oslo in '28

Ghost voice on the shortwave

That never came late

'54 papers screaming

Air Force got a bogey

Polar orbit backwards

No rocket we know

Cooper heard you breathing

Up on Mercury flight

Red light in the window

On a long, long night

Pre-Chorus

They called you a blanket

Lost bit of tin

But the old ones carved you

On a cave wall grey

Before Sputnik

Ever had its day

Chorus

Oh Black Knight

Are you lonely?

13,000 years alone

Black Knight

You don't know me

But you've been watching us

From stone to chrome

Keep your orbit

Keep your secret

In the dark above the blue

Black Knight

Are you coming?

Or are we coming for you

Bridge - half-time, heavy

Ancient watcher

Broken armor

Who left you there to rust?

Messenger

Tombstone

Or just our need to trust

Guitar Solo

Final Chorus - bigger

Oh Black Knight

Are you lonely?

13,000 years alone

Black Knight

We are lonely

Sending signals to the unknown

Keep your orbit

Keep your secret

In the dark above the blue

Black Knight

If you're listening

We're still listening too

Outro

Tick

Tick

Tick

In the black