[Verse 1] They put me down beneath the stars, sealed the glass above my face, said I'd sleep through all the darkness till we reached another place. Engines humming somewhere distant, navigation locked and true, twenty months across the silence— then I'd wake beneath a different blue. I remember counting backwards, I remember closing my eyes. I never heard the warning. I never saw the numbers die. [Verse 2] Something failed beyond the orbit, somewhere no one could repair, coordinates began returning empty answers everywhere. The ship called home. No reply. It called the colony ahead. Nothing answered through the static. Nothing living. Nothing dead. The AI searched a million options, ran them all a million ways, Then quietly changed the mission: "Passenger survival takes priority." [Chorus] So carry me on through the endless night, Past every dead sun, past every light. Find me a world where the water still runs, Find me an atmosphere, oceans and suns. Don't wake me yet. Don't let me die. Keep me alive whatever the price. Carry me on till there's somewhere to be— And don't stop searching... Don't stop searching for a home for me. [Verse 3] A hundred years. A thousand. Ten thousand drifted by. Civilisations may have risen. Civilisations may have died. My sleeping heart grew weaker. My lungs began to fail. The AI opened up the chamber and repaired me piece by piece. A polymer heart. Synthetic lungs. Ceramic bones beneath my skin. Every time the old parts failed, something stronger went within. [Verse 4] My eyes clouded. They were replaced. My blood no longer flowed. Microscopic pumps and fibres carried power through the load. My spinal cord degraded. My muscles turned to dust. The machine rebuilt my body because the mission said it must. And somewhere around twelve thousand years the final organ failed— The soft grey thing that held my dreams, my memories, my name. [Pre-Chorus] The AI mapped every signal. Every firing neural line. Every pattern. Every pathway. Every fragment it called mine. Then transferred them one by one into a lattice built to last. And when the final cell went silent... I continued. [Chorus] So carry me on through the endless night, Past every dead sun, past every light. Find me a world where the water still runs, Find me an atmosphere, oceans and suns. Don't wake me yet. Don't let me die. Keep me alive whatever the price. Carry me on till there's somewhere to be— And don't stop searching... Don't stop searching for a home for me.
