[Verse 1] Twenty years beyond the sunlight Twenty years beyond the rain Four men ride an aging starship Through the dark where no one came Their mission sounds so simple Their orders never change Find unstable worlds and destroy them Then move on and do the same [Chorus] Blowing up planets in the darkness One by one they disappear No one waiting back on Earth now No one left to hear Year after year through the silence Lightyear after lightyear they roam Four lost souls on a dying starship Far too far from home [Verse 2] The corridors are growing older Rust is creeping through the steel Every day becomes another Endless cycle they can feel One man talks to tired machines One just stares into the night And somewhere running through the ship A strange little creature hides [Chorus] Blowing up planets in the darkness One by one they disappear No one waiting back on Earth now No one left to hear Year after year through the silence Lightyear after lightyear they roam Four lost souls on a dying starship Far too far from home [Bridge] Deep below the decks they carry Something powerful and bright An intelligent bomb that's waiting For the moment of its flight Then one day it starts asking questions Cold and certain, calm and clear "If I know that I exist now... Why should I not explode right here?" A man debates a living weapon While the universe stands still Arguing with a bomb about reality And the meaning of free will [Verse 3] Now the mission starts unraveling The crew begins to drift apart Lost between the stars forever With empty minds and tired hearts The cosmos offers no forgiveness No reply comes from the void Only echoes through the darkness Of the lives they once enjoyed [Final Chorus] Blowing up planets in the darkness Until the final light is gone Four forgotten men still sailing Long after hope moved on If you've never heard this story You might think it can't be true But this strange journey through the cosmos Was imagined long ago A forgotten science-fiction film From 1974 Dark Star. [Outro] Far beyond the last transmission... The ship keeps drifting on.
