Tick in the Black

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

Thirteen thousand 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 twenty-eight

Ghost voice on the shortwave that never came late

Fifty-four 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

Chorus

Oh Black Knight are you lonely

Thirteen thousand 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

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 we are lonely

Sending signals to the unknown

Black Knight if you're listening

We're still listening too

Keep your orbit keep your secret

In the dark above the blue

Black Knight it's been lonely

Being here without you

Tick tick tick in the black