[Verse 1] Serial numbers scratched, stamped with red ink A hairline fracture in the titanium link They threw out the copper, said the heat tolerance failed Discarded the alloy where the weld mark was paled I gathered the scrap from the scrapyard floor The warp-engine casing they pushed out the door Every hairline stress seam, every crooked brass vein Was cast off as garbage in the pouring rain [Pre-Chorus] No inspector would sign off on this frame No blue-stamped ledger would record its name But the standard equations only measure the past And the pristine vessels were not built to last [Chorus] We are flying in a ship built of rejected parts With heavy syncopation beating through these warped steel hearts Harmonic counter-strands woven in the bend A polyrhythmic hull that will not fracture or end Warping through the static to a uncharted sphere Every flaw in the frame is why we’re living right here Complex threads aligning in the dissonant glow We leave the old inspection in the dust below [Verse 2] The gyro-scope stutters by a quarter degree It doesn't point north, it points past what we see The cockpit glass is cracked, splitting light into three Reflecting new colors on the star-charts and me If we were sealed perfect, we would burn in the draft It’s the gaps in the solder that save this whole craft [Chorus] We are flying in a ship built of rejected parts With heavy syncopation beating through these warped steel hearts Harmonic counter-strands woven in the bend A polyrhythmic hull that will not fracture or end Warping through the static to a uncharted sphere Every flaw in the frame is why we’re living right here Complex threads aligning in the dissonant glow We leave the old inspection in the dust below [Outro] Across the event horizon, bright and clear The cast-off metal brought us all the way here The voyage begins where the blueprints end Imperfect, ascending, around the bend
