[Verse 1: Prog-rock male lead, big and clear] Middle of the ice cap, nothing here but white Sun that doesn't set and then a winter without light Diesel and a derrick and a drill bit made of steel Pulling up a cylinder of everything that's real Every meter's decades and every hundred is an age Snow that fell on nobody is written on the page Cities hadn't happened when this layer hit the ground There was no one in the world to even hear the sound [Pre-Chorus: Prog-rock male lead, lifting] Lower it down, bring it up Lower it down, bring it up Colder than the moon and older than a crown [Chorus: Prog-rock male lead, full power] Every foot I drill, I go back a thousand years Past the kings and past the wars and past the pioneers Down where no one ever was, below the oldest fears Every foot I drill, I go back a thousand years [Verse 2: Prog-rock male lead, building] Two kilometers, the ice is blue as glass Bubbles in the column from a sky that didn't last Ash from a volcano that nobody ever named Dust from a desert that was green before it changed Lab is twenty under and I'm working in a coat Cutting it in sections with a fog around my throat Three kilometers, the drill comes up, it's done Deepest piece of water that has ever seen the sun [Pre-Chorus: Prog-rock male lead, lifting] Lower it down, bring it up Lower it down, bring it up Colder than the moon and older than a crown [Chorus: Prog-rock male lead, full power] Every foot I drill, I go back a thousand years Past the kings and past the wars and past the pioneers Down where no one ever was, below the oldest fears Every foot I drill, I go back a thousand years [Bridge: Prog-rock male lead, hushed then huge] Crack it open in the cold and listen to it breathe Air from when the world was wide and nobody could speak Lean in close and take it in, the oldest breath on earth Air that never heard a name and never heard a word Every breath I ever took was borrowed from the sky This one's from before the world had anybody to say why [Final Chorus: Prog-rock male lead, pedal tone under everything, biggest vocal] Every foot I drill, I go back a thousand years Past the kings and past the wars and past the pioneers Down where no one ever was, below the oldest fears Every foot I drill, I go back a thousand years [Outro: Prog-rock male lead] Loneliest man on earth, and I'm not alone [End]
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