It's breathing in the dark

Outro

We tore the sky apart and walked away

Thought we'd left it burning in the bay

Steel and thunder fading on the wind

Never saw the shadow crawling in

(Turning round)

It's breathing in the dark with me

(Look around)

A second heart that shouldn't be

(Right behind)

The hatch was never shut, you see

Final Chorus

We sealed the doors and counted every scar

Swore we'd never find another war

But something's trapped inside this metal skin

And now we're never getting out again

(Out again)

(Out again)

Never getting out again

Bridge

Tick-tock in the hull, a pulse that's not my own

Every bulkhead hums a frequency I've grown

To know by name, to fear by shape

A passenger that we were too late to escape

(Breathe in)

It knows my smell, it knows my name

(Breathe out)

It learned our march, it learned our game

(One more turn)

And I can feel it taking aim

Final Drop

Claw marks in the conduit, scraping up the spine

The alien was always here, it never left the line

We thought we flew the void, we thought we'd won the race

But it was sitting in the hatch the whole time, face to face

(Face to face)

(Face to face)

Never getting out again

Verse 3

Every static flicker spells a different name

The cargo bay is breathing through the frame

We wired up the locks and checked the seams

But it wears our voices, cracks our coping schemes

(Who goes there)

I swear I heard my own laugh on the wind

(Who's there now)

The bulkhead knows the shape it's bending in

(Stay in line)

The fluoro tubes are humming our descent

Chorus

No more running from the thing that wears our skin

Every panel's opening from the inside in

We're the cargo now, we're the manifest

The hatch was always just a coronet

(Coronet)

(Coronet)

We're the payload of the night

Guitar Solo

Bridge

Tremor through the deck-plates, rhythm in the rebar

The engineer swears the schematics never had a scar

But the blueprints bend like memories when you look too long

The airlock sings a requiem in a key that's wrong

(Hold the line)

It's humming through the metal like a second lung

(Make it shine)

The floodlights can't outrun a thing that's always young

(Say goodbye)

We're scuttling the ship but can't outrun the song

Final Outro

Flares across the vacuum, burning bright and cold

We jettisoned the past, or so we were told

But drifting in the capsule, counting down the light

There's a shape between the struts that never left the night

(Never left)

(Never left)

It's curled up in the wiring, warm as breath

(Never left)

It's growing in the silence, laughing quiet death

(Close your eyes)

The stars look different when you feel it staring back at you

We never left the hatch

We never left the hatch

We were always home