Lyrics

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 45 long seconds She called out the truth on a broken radio "I'm alive, I'm alive, I'm alive." 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 You're still alive 4,000 nautical miles as the crow flies away A homemade ham radio in the loft of a Hampshire family home Came alive, came alive, came alive The four-year-old amateur operator thus became The only person to hear Christa's last desperate communiqué "We're alive, we're alive, we're alive." It came as some surprise to realize While he didn't catch everything The world was revealed in a transmission So real that he understood everything We're still alive We're still alive "The darkness up above Led me on like unrequited love While all of the things I need Were down here in the deep blue sea The darkness up above Led me on like unrequited love While all of the things I need Were down here in the deep blue sea The darkness up above Led me on like unrequited love While all of 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