Cobalt Starstrong's Prime Signal

(Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, dit-dit-dit-dah)
(Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, dit-dit-dit-dah)

Tune your dial to where the evening
(Where the evening)
Meets the edge of everything
I'll be riding on that channel
(On that channel)
With the only song I sing

They can keep their constellations
(Keep them, keep them)
Charts of every burning stone
I just need the one you're set to
The frequency of home
(Dit-dit-dah, the frequency of home)

Prime signal, prime signal
(Ooh-wah-ooh)
The first one and the true
Prime signal, prime signal
(Ooh-wah-ooh)
Every wave I send is you

If the dark gets wide between us
(Sha-la-la, sha-la-la)
If the years run fast and thin
Leave the porch light on the dial, love
(On the dial, love)
I will always tune back in

Prime signal, prime signal
(Ooh-wah-ooh)
The first one and the true
Prime signal, prime signal
(Ooh-wah-ooh)
Every wave I send is you

(Dit-dit-dit-dah)
(Dit-dit-dit-dah)
Tune it low and keep it burning
(Keep it burning)
Keep it burning all night through
Every wave I'm ever sending
(Sending, sending)
Started out
Started out as you
(Ooh-wah, ooh-wah, dit-dit-dit-dah)
Started out as you

(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)

Three minutes when I started
(When I started)
It's an hour now each way
But you answer, you still answer
(Still answer, still answer)
And that carries me all day

I ask about the garden
(Bum-bum-bah)
You ask about the stars
By the time your voice can reach me
(Reach me, reach me)
We're not quite where we were

But you answer
(Answer light)
You still answer
(Answer light)
Through the widening of the night
Every message is a lantern
And you always leave one bright
(Doo-doo-wah, you leave one bright)

Someday soon the lag is years, love
(Years, love, years, love)
And I won't know what to do
Except keep talking into darkness
(Ooh, the darkness)
Like the darkness answers too

But you answer
(Answer light)
You still answer
(Answer light)
Through the widening of the night
Every message is a lantern
And you always leave one bright

(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
Keep it burning on the sill, love
(Doo-doo-wah, doo-doo-wah)
I can see it from up here
Every answer is a morning
(Answer light, answer light)
Every answer brings you near
(Doo-doo-wah)
Every answer brings you near

I signed up for the long haul
(Long haul, long haul)
With my name across my chest
Thought I'd find out who I was
Somewhere out past all the rest
(Bah-bah-ooh, past all the rest)

(Bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-ooh)
(Bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-ooh)

But the mirror in my quarters
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Shows a fellow that I don't
Quite remember ever meeting
And I asked him home — he won't
(He won't, he won't)

Some other spaceman
(Wah-ooh, wah-ooh)
Wearing my winning smile
Some other spaceman
(Wah-ooh, wah-ooh)
Been flying my last mile

I came out here to find me
(Find me, find me)
Isn't that the old, old song
Found a stranger in my spacesuit
Who's been in here all along
(Bah-bah-bah, all along)

Some other spaceman
(Wah-ooh, wah-ooh)
Wearing my winning smile
Some other spaceman
(Wah-ooh, wah-ooh)
Been flying my last mile

Well maybe if I shake his hand
(Shake his hand)
And maybe if we talk a while
(Talk a while)
Maybe me and that strange spaceman
Could learn to share the smile

Some other spaceman
(Wah-ooh, wah-ooh)
Some other spaceman
(Wah-ooh, wah-ooh)
Some other spaceman
(Bah-bah-bah, bah-bah-ooh)
Come on home

(Hmm-ooh, hmm-ooh)
(Hmm-ooh, hmm-ooh)

Don't say a word now
(Don't talk, don't talk)
Put your hand here on the rail
Let the galaxy do the talking
(Ooh-ooh)
It has quite a tale

There's a language before language
(Before language)
That the starlight seems to know
Rest your head against my shoulder
Watch the slow worlds go
(Hmm-ooh, watch the slow worlds go)

Don't talk
(Don't talk)
Don't talk
(Don't talk)
Some things are too big for words
And too small
(Too small)
Like a heartbeat on a deck plate
Underneath it all

The comets don't chatter
(Ooh-ooh)
The nebulas don't shout
Whatever we are made of, darling
It doesn't talk it out

Don't talk
(Don't talk)
Don't talk
(Don't talk)
Some things are too big for words
And too small
(Too small)
Like a heartbeat on a deck plate
Underneath it all

(Hmm-ooh, hmm-ooh)
Lean here on my shoulder
(Hmm-ooh, hmm-ooh)
Let the long light fall
Like a heartbeat on a deck plate
(Don't talk, don't talk)
Underneath it all
(Hmm-ooh)
Underneath it all

They tell me dawn on Meridian
(On Meridian)
Takes forty years to come around
The night side turning, ever turning
(Turning, turning)
Toward a light that makes no sound

And I'm halfway to morning
(Halfway, halfway)
Halfway to you
Everything worth having
Is a slow thing coming true
(Doo-dee-doo, a slow thing coming true)

(Doo-dee-doo-dah, doo-dee-doo-dah)
(Meri-meri-dia-dia, meridian)
(Meri-meri-dia-dia, meridian)
(Doo-dee-doo-dah, doo-dee-doo-dah)

I could live a whole life waiting
(Waiting, waiting)
Some men would call that a waste
But I've seen the way the dawn line
Moves across a planet's face
(Ooh-ahh, across a planet's face)

And I'm halfway to morning
(Halfway, halfway)
Halfway to you
Everything worth having
Is a slow thing coming true

Nothing lovely ever hurries
(Hurries, hurries)
Nothing patient is alone
I'm halfway to morning
(Halfway, halfway)
Halfway home

(Doo-dee-doo-dah, doo-dee-doo-dah)
Turn, world, turn
(Turn, world, turn)
Slow as you please
I'll be watching for the dawn line
Coming up across the seas
I'm halfway to morning
(Halfway, halfway)
Halfway to morning
(Halfway, halfway)
Halfway home
(Doo-dee-doo-dah)
Halfway home

(Ooh)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
(Ooh)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)

Coasting
(Co-oh-woah-oh-oasting)
Engines down
(Down, down, down)

Starlight on the silver
(Ahh-ahh)
Starlight on the hull
(Ahh-ahh)
Nothing here but drifting
And the drift is beautiful
(Ooh-ooh-ooh, beautiful)

Coasting
(Co-oh-woah-oh-oasting)
No sound
(No sound, no sound)

(Bum-bum-bah-dah)
(Bum-bum-bah-dah)
Drifting
(Drifty-drifty-drifting)
Drifting
(Drifty-drifty-drifting)

Starlight on the silver
(Ahh-ahh)
Starlight on my soul
(Ahh-ahh)
We are barely moving
And we're right on course for home
(Home, home, home)

(Ooh)
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Coasting
(Co-oh-woah-oh-oasting)
(Coasting, coasting)
Coasting
(Co-oh-woah-oh-oasting)
(Coasting, coasting)
Home
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
Home

(Bah-dah-dah-dip, bah-dah-dah-dip)
(Bah-dah-dah-dip, bah-dah-dah-dip)

Seven souls aboard the freighter
(Aboard the freighter)
Seven bunks and one guitar
Cook is singing in the galley
(In the galley)
Songs about how far we are

Captain, when's the turnaround burn
(Turn her round, turn her round)
When do we point her nose for home
Every one of us is dreaming
(Dreaming, dreaming)
Of a door that's not chrome

Navigator's got a photograph
(Bah-dah-dip)
Taped above her chart display
Engineer keeps talking harvests
(Talking harvests)
Like he never went away

Captain, light the turnaround burn
(Turn her round, turn her round)
Swing us round and let her roar
Half of flying's leaving
(Leaving, leaving)
The better half's the shore

Fire in the nozzle, boys
(Fire in the nozzle)
Feel her swinging on her keel
Every klick is homeward now
(Homeward, homeward)
Don't you love the way that feels

Captain lit the turnaround burn
(Turn her round, turn her round)
Now she's pointed at the shore
Half of flying's leaving
(Leaving, leaving)
The better half's the shore
(Bah-dah-dah-dip)
The better half's the shore
(Bah-dah-dah-dip, bah-dah-dah-dip)
Home

Ships are made for wandering
(Wandering, wandering)
And stars are made to burn
And nothing in the void stays put
Everything's got a turn
(Ooh-wah, everything's got a turn)

But you
(But you)
You are my fixed point
(My fixed point)
The place my compass rests
Whatever way the dark is spinning
(Spinning, spinning)
I know which way is best

If everything I mapped went missing
(Missing, missing)
Every beacon, every line
I could cross the whole thing blind, love
(Blind, love)
Steering by your light

'Cause you
(Cause you)
You are my fixed point
(My fixed point)
The place my compass rests
Whatever way the dark is spinning
(Spinning, spinning)
I know which way is best

How could I navigate without you?
How would I ever get anywhere?

They ask me how I never
Get lost out where I roam
(Where I roam)
I tell them there's a fixed point
(Fixed point, fixed point)
And the fixed point, dear, is you

Steady, steady
(Steady, steady)
True, true
(True, true)
Whatever way the dark is spinning
The fixed point, dear, is you
(Ooh-wah-ooh)
The fixed point, dear, is you

(Shh-shh-kah, shh-shh-kah)
(Shh-shh-kah, shh-shh-kah)

I spend my off-shifts listening
(Listening, listening)
To the hiss between the stars
Most men hear an empty ocean
(Empty ocean)
I hear something like a heart

Somewhere in the static
(In the static)
There's a pattern, there's a thread
Somewhere in the static
(In the static)
Something wants to be said

Maybe it's another pilot
(Ooh-ooh)
Maybe it's a world unknown
Maybe it's just my own signal
(My own signal)
Circling back to find me home

Somewhere in the static
(In the static)
There's a pattern, there's a thread
Somewhere in the static
(In the static)
Something wants to be said

But I believe, I can't help it
(Can't help it, can't help it)
That the noise is not the end
Somewhere in the static
(In the static)
Someone's trying to be a friend

(Shh-shh-kah, shh-shh-kah)
Listen close now
(Listen, listen)
Down beneath the hiss and hum
Somewhere in the static
(In the static)
Someone's tapping out a drum
Somewhere in the static
(In the static)
Someone's trying to be a friend
(Shh-shh-kah)
Someone's trying to be a friend

(Ooh-ahh, ooh-ahh)
(Bum-bum-bum-bah)

We had coffee on the platform
(On the platform)
Watched them fuel her in the rain
You laughed at something stupid
(Something stupid)
And I memorized it plain

Because every launch is a goodbye
(Goodbye, goodbye)
That's the tax the distance takes
Love is real and love is patient
(Patient, patient)
But the schedule never waits

I'm not sad, or just a little
(Just a little)
It's the physics, it's the fee
Every door out to the beautiful
(The beautiful)
Closes quietly

'Cause every launch is a goodbye
(Goodbye, goodbye)
That's the tax the distance takes
Love is real and love is patient
(Patient, patient)
But the schedule never waits

So hold the coffee warmer
(Warmer, warmer)
Laugh a second longer, try
Kiss me on the platform
(On the platform)
Every launch is a goodbye

(Ooh-ahh, ooh-ahh)
Ten, nine, eight, my darling
(Bum-bum-bum-bah)
Seven, six, don't cry
(Don't cry, don't cry)
Kiss me on the platform
Every launch is a goodbye
(Goodbye, goodbye)
Every launch is a goodbye
(Ooh-ahh)
Goodbye

(Dah-doo-ron, dah-doo-ron)
(Dah-doo-ron, dah-doo-ron)

The colony's got everything
(Everything, everything)
A fellow's supposed to want
New towns, new suns, new faces
(New faces)
And I wear them all like fronts

Back home they've all grown older
(Older, older)
In ways I wasn't there to learn
I'm a postcard from a decade
(From a decade)
That nobody's going to return

I keep looking up at evening
(Ooh-ooh-ooh)
For the shapes I used to know
But it's a wrong sky
(Wrong sky)
A wrong sky
(Wrong sky)
Wherever I go

They tell me I'll adjust in time
(In time, in time)
They tell me roots will grow
But a transplant knows the difference
(Knows the difference)
Even when it doesn't show

And it's a wrong sky
(Wrong sky)
A wrong sky
(Wrong sky)
Wherever I go

Maybe some of us are tuned to
(Tuned to, tuned to)
A channel that's gone dark
Still I keep the dial right on it
(Right on it)
Still I hold the spark

Wrong sky
(Wrong sky)
Wrong sky
(Wrong sky)
Still I hold the spark
(Dah-doo-ron, dah-doo-ron)
Still I hold the spark

(Ding-dong-ooh)
(Ding-dong-ooh)
(Ahh-ahh-ahh)
(Ding-dong-ooh)

Ring
(Ring, ring)
Hear the bells
(The bells, the bells)

Blue and gold and rolling
(Ahh-ahh)
Where the new stars swell
(Ahh-ahh)
Every one a ringing
Every one a bell
(Ding-dong-ooh, every one a bell)

Ring
(Ring, ring)
Down the dust
(The dust, the dust)

(Bom-bom-ding)
(Bom-bom-ding)
Ring on
(Ring on)
Ring on
(Ring on)

Nobody hung them
(Ooh-ooh)
Nobody rings them
(Ooh-ooh)
Nobody wrote the song
The bells in the nebula
(Ding-dong-ooh)
Ring all night long

(Ahh-ahh-ahh)
Ring on
(Ring, ring)
Ring on
(Ring, ring)
The bells in the nebula
(Ding-dong-ooh)
Ring all night long
(Ding-dong-ooh)
All night long
(Ding-dong-ooh)
Ring

(Ooh-ooh-wah)
(Ooh-ooh-wah)

By the time this reaches you
(Reaches you)
I'll be younger than I should
You'll be silver on the porch swing
(On the porch swing)
In the town beyond the wood

That's the trade I made, my darling
(My darling, my darling)
When I traded ground for sky
I stayed green while you grew golden
(Golden, golden)
Neither one of us knows why

But here's what the stars have taught me
(Taught me, taught me)
On the long way through the dark
Light keeps going
(Keeps going)
Light keeps going
(Keeps going)
Long past its own spark

So if this is all that reaches you
(Reaches you)
A warm voice, an old song
Know the signal never ended
(Never ended)
It was traveling all along

Light keeps going
(Keeps going)
Light keeps going
(Keeps going)
Long past its own spark

It was you, it was always
(Always, always)
The first frequency I knew
And whatever else goes silent
(Goes silent)
The light still reaches you

(Ooh-ooh-wah)
The light still reaches you
(Ooh-ooh-wah)
Still reaches you
(Prime signal, prime signal)
The first one and the true
(Ooh-ooh-wah)
The light still reaches you