Eclipse Never Died

Intro - Distant synth pad, a single bell toll

Mm... mm... through the smog...

Mm... mm... through the blaze...

Verse 1

Two brothers in a Staten Island room

Seventy-seven humming Hot Butter tune

Pressed a rebel in the wasteland haze

Sabre and Siren through the smog and blaze

Ms. Tree walked hard with a .38 in June

They said you own your name, you own your moon

Pre-Chorus

Cat at the door saying let them be free

A royalty check and your own legacy

Chorus

Oh we were children of the Eclipse light

Neon pages in the California night

You gave us gods who bled like you and me

From Guerneville to eternity

Verse 2

Mick Moran was a reporter tired and gray

Whispered Kimota and the sky caught fire that day

Not a boy scout anymore but a cold blue eye

Alan brought him back broken wondering why

They changed his name cause Marvel claimed the thunder

But we knew the truth when he went under

Pre-Chorus

Cat at the door saying let them be free

A royalty check and your own legacy

Chorus

Oh we were children of the Eclipse light

Neon pages in the California night

You gave us gods who bled like you and me

From Guerneville to eternity

Verse 3

Zachary fell from a retro future dream

Jet boots humming to a teenage scream

Found Jenny Weaver in our world of grey

Said love is the real power anyway

Birdie flapped again over Normandy rain

David Nelson the Third took his father's name

Over L.A. in thirty-eight a stuntman found wings

Cliff Secord in leather hear the rocket sing

Bridge - Half time, layered harmonies

Tank and Amber asking who am I

Caza the Aztec Ace with a time ship burning

Bridget from the forties and a love worth learning

Freud's own head to navigate the sky

Scout riding through the nuked America blues

Every hero owned his own damn fuse

Guitar Solo - Crying like a midnight comic shop, wah pedal soaked in reverb

Final Chorus - Double time drums, key change up

Oh we were children of the Eclipse light

Every hero owned his own damn life

No Code stamp could tell us what to be

Sabre Zot Airboy Rocketeer

Miracleman still whispering in our ear

Hold that panel up to the light

You can still see the Mullaneys' fire burning bright

Outro - Piano and vinyl crackle, single voice

For seventeen years you let the weird ones run

Then the river took the warehouse ninety-three was done

But ink don't fade when the creators own the dream

Eclipse never died

It just went off the screen