It will shine and it will shudder   As I guide it with my rudder   On its metalled ways   It will cut the night before it   As it leaves the day that saw it   On its metalled ways      Nobody passes us in the deep quiet of the dark sky   And nobody sees us alone out here among the stars   In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days      Through a fault of our designing   We are lost among the windings   Of these metal ways   Back to silence back to minus   With the purple sky behind us   In these metal ways      Nobody hears us when we're alone in the blue future   No one receiving the radio's splintered waves   In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days      In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days   In these metal ways, in these metal days   ...