Eleven Point Two

Intro

Verse

Twelve black drones climb up from Phobos base

and all their screens light up with my face

I drop into the pilot seat and buckle in

thumb the starter, let the turbines spin

The countdown's for cowards, so I never wait

I launch at four and leave them at the gate

Hook

Eleven point two and the engines scream

(punch it)

escape velocity, splitting at the seam

(punch it through)

Gravity is tugging at my heel

(not today)

I'm a streak of rivets and of steel

(and gone)

Verse

I thread the belt where boulders tumble like dice

two hunters on my tail shatter into ice

The radar's flashing numbers, red on red

I kill the lights and fly by ear instead

Two lock-ons, and I shake them with a twist

a corkscrew roll that's not on any list

Hook

Eleven point two and the engines scream

(punch it)

escape velocity, splitting at the seam

(punch it through)

Gravity is tugging at my heel

(not today)

I'm a streak of rivets and of steel

(and gone)

Electric Guitar Solo

Breakdown

Jupiter

(swing low)

pull me in

(closer)

let me go

(slingshot)

Verse

Past Saturn's rings my last pursuer loses track

its little beacon blinking in the black

I ease the throttle, let the thrusters cool

ten billion miles from anybody's rule

Let them search the charts and draw a blank

I'm parked by Neptune, topping up the tank

Hook

Nothing in the system clocks this speed

(try it)

all twelve drones are choking on my lead

(eat my wake)

eleven point two was just the start

(and counting)

now I've flown beyond the outer chart

(off the map)