Requiem for the Light

Ten million tons of steel hurled across the sky

Our final sleeper ship none left to say goodbye

For all our wisdom couldn't save her from the night

Now hear our children sing their requiem for the light

I want to stop the wheels of time

I need it I want it

The light that gives me life again

Ten thousand years in space we slept across the dark

Towards a burning star we sailed a gliding arc

But soon we had to journey back into the night

And hear our children sing their requiem for the light

I want to stop the wheels of time

I need it I want it

The light that gives me life again

Can you feel her burning love

Mother of all life blazing glory from above

A requiem for the light

Far too old and far too young

Behold another fading sun

Gaze with hope into the sky

But know that all our stars will die

The eternal night we must survive

A requiem for the light

I want to stop the wheels of time

I need it I want it

The light that gives me life again