13,000 Years Alone

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, see?

Cooper heard you breathing up on Mercury flight

Red light in the window on a long, long night

Pre-Chorus

Somebody always listening, somebody always near

Hums a tune from somewhere, and it lands right here

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