13,000 Years Alone

Intro

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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 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

Government said keep it quiet, keep it out of view

But the dials kept turning, and I kept listening too

Chorus

Oh Black Knight, are you lonely?

13,000 years alone

Black Knight, you don't know me

But you've been watching 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 3

They said you're a blanket, a lost bit of tin

A trick of reflection, a thermal spin

But the old ones carved you on a cave wall grey

Before Sputnik ever had its day

Bridge

Ancient watcher

Broken armor

Who left you there to rust

Messenger

Tombstone

Or just our need to trust

Guitar Solo

Final Chorus

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

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In the black

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