Silent Key Lyrics

Intro Intro
Acoustic Electric
On the 28th of January 1986 Christa McAuliffe
Gazed in horror as the O-rings failed,
And she died, and she died, and she died.
For the next agonizing two minutes and forty-five long seconds
She called out the truth on a broken radio:
"I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive"
horus
It came as some surprise to realize that
As she lost everything
The world was revealed in a transmission so real
That she understood everything:
You're still alive.
(Intro Riff)
You're still alive.
(Intro Riff)
Four thousand nautical miles as the crow flies away
A home-made ham radio in the loft of a Hampshire family home
Came alive, came alive, came alive.
And so the four year old amateur operator thus became
The only person to hear Christa's last desperate communique:
"We're alive, we're alive, we're alive"
horus
It came as some surprise to realize
That he didn't catch anything
The world was revealed in a transmission so real
That he understood everything:
You're still alive.
reak
And Christa said:
Acoustic
Electric Arpeggio
The darkness up above
Led me on like unrequited love,
While all the things I need
Were down here in the deep blue sea
At four years old I heard the truth on my radio,
So now I keep a moment's silence for my Silent Key.
My silent key x 3
(Intro riff)