[Verse 1] Midnight engines on the runway line Kansas wind and a warning sign Steel wings humming in the sodium light Another long watch through the endless night Coffee black and the scopes glow green Eyes on a sky nobody’s seen Somewhere far where the borders burn Every little blip is a page to turn [Pre-Chorus] We don’t fire the guns We don’t storm the shore But we see the storm Long before the war [Chorus] We’re the rotodome riders in the midnight sky Flying circles where the silent signals fly Watching every shadow, every turning wing While the fighters wait for the word we bring Yeah the crew dogs riding on a radar beam Flying miles above the battle scene When tomorrow’s world sleeps safe at night They’ll never know our lonely flight [Verse 2] Thirty thousand feet above the fight Turning slow through the velvet night Signals dancing in the operator’s glow Where the quiet wars of the future go Controllers talking in a calm, low tone Guiding ghosts that the pilots own Steel and thunder on a distant call But we see the shape of it all [Pre-Chorus] Every screen a map Every voice a thread In the sky we weave Where the war is led [Chorus] We’re the ]rotodome riders] in the midnight sky Flying circles where the silent signals fly Watching every shadow, every turning wing While the fighters wait for the word we bring Yeah the crew dogs riding on a radar beam Flying miles above the battle scene When tomorrow’s world sleeps safe at night They’ll never know our lonely flight [Bridge] One day new wings will take our place Sharper eyes in the empty space Digital ghosts and a brighter dome But every sky still needs a home For the watchers turning slow and high Guarding roads in the endless sky From the cold war nights to the battles ahead It was crew dogs flying where the angels tread] [Final Chorus] We’re the rotodome riders in the midnight sky Circling where the silent signals lie Flying computers and a turning crown Keeping the darkness from breaking down Yeah the crew dogs riding through the years to come Till the last long mission’s done And the world will sleep beneath our dome While the watchers keep flying home
