Racing the Dark Lyrics


There is just as much space in here

But there is so much less stuff inside of it

And there is just as much sky above

But there is nothing in ours

Have we drifted too far away

Cuz I can’t see you out there

Signals dead or it’s in my head

Cuz I can’t receive what I can’t believe

Anything and everything is now and here

It’s always been

Since the beginning but then

There was closer

Now we face inside

Amuse, distract, indulge and defy

Our perceptual faculties

Have atrophied constantly

When the empty

Look out upon the void

What could they possibly see

When all freedoms been destroyed

You can flood electric light above

But you won’t wash away the blood

It’s not that simple to tear me apart

When I’d rather be racing the dark

We call out to the skies

Nobody replies

It’s not that simple to tear me apart

I know that somewhere out there

There’s somebody racing the dark

250 million light years

13.8 billion light years

46.5 billion light years

Away

There’s got to be

Somebody out there far away

Maybe we’ll never meet

But deep within the same empty

We burn our lives away

Staring into our own fire

We pour our smoke into the sky

And hide the cosmos with our light

Keep it close

Keep it safe

Keep it protected

Keep it locked away

When you need it

You’re sure to notice

Our hubris and clumsiness

Laziness building the ark

Is it close

Is it the same

Do we even know

From whence we came

We build it up

Push it down down down

When I go out at night

I’m always amazed by how much I can’t see

There’s only a couple of stars where I live

But when I was a child I went to the country

And I saw with my own eyes

A slice of our galaxy

I’ve been searching my whole life

For that feeling

You can flood electric light above

But you won’t wash away the blood

It’s not that simple to tear me apart

When I’d rather be racing the dark

We call out to the skies

Nobody replies

It’s not that simple to tear me apart

Beyond the event horizon

There’s someone, there's someone

There’s got to be someone

Somebody racing the dark

Beyond the event horizon

There’s someone, there's someone

There’s got to be someone

Somebody racing the dark

But I’d rather be racing the dark

But I’d rather be racing the

Racing the

Racing the dark

But I’d rather be racing the dark

So tear me apart

But I'd rather be racing the dark