T-MINUS



VERSE 1:



Down the rabbit hole into the wishing well,

Down the consciousness into a new blood cell,

Down the barrel of a gun to a rebel,

Down the bullet holes into a warmer hell.

It’s T-minus seven seconds to the death of hope

And another seven inches to the end of the rope,

It’s a gap between what I had been

And what I turn into.



VERSE 2:



Through the synapse of an unexpected dream,

Through the memories that crawl right under my skin,

Through the burning, through the wavering within

To nowhere, to somewhere I had never been.

It’s T-minus seven breaths to what I know as you

And a single glance to what I thought was true,

I am right between my images

And what you turn into.



CHORUS 1:



I ride far and fast

Away from all my past

To a future I can’t meet

‘Cuz it’s a few seconds ahead

Through every curve it’s got me beat.



I drive to what I see,

Yet I don’t feel like I’m free.

There is hell close at my heels,

My past is a second behind,

My present right under my wheels.



[T-minus 8, T-minus 7, T-minus 6, T-minus 5, 

T-minus 4, T-minus 3, T-minus 2, T-minus 1…]



VERSE 3:



Up the tunnels of my new mutating fright,

Up the veins, through indiscretion to delight,

Through the dangers that I couldn’t leave behind,

From the killing depths to an undiscovered height.

It’s T-minus one illusion from me to you

And a single step to where I’m running to,

It’s the only way to stay ourselves 

In spite of what we’re turning into.



CHORUS 2:



I ride far and fast

Away from all my past

To a future I can’t meet

‘Cuz it’s a few seconds ahead

Through every curve it’s got me beat.



I drive to what I see,

Yet I don’t feel like I’m free.

There is hell close at my heels,

My past is a second behind,

My present right under my wheels.



MIDDLE:



Are we dead?

Or we’re just condemned?

Are we at the end

Of the world that we both knew? [love]



CODA:



We ride fast and free

To where we’d never been,

To a future that we feel

Each time we inhale the air

To live it now and live it now for real.

[Catherine]

To live it now and live it now for real.



We’re not dead

And we’re not condemned,

A new world comes ahead,

The T-minus is over… x2