Clock of the Long Now

Lyrics

Ten thousand years Marking out time What will it see? As the years tick away? A pulse is beating deep in the heart of a mountain, measuring five kinds of time (10,000 years from now and you're still here, you will outlast us all) Each time it chimes it plays a different melody, how many tunes/songs does it know? (10,000 years from now and you will never once repeat yourself) 10,000 years (10,000 years) Marking out time (as the years go by) What will it see? (10,000 years) As the years and the decades tick by Mechanical multi-millennial monument, hundreds of feet through the earth (500 foot tall architectural subterranean edifice) Pendulum, solar-synchronisation, making dynamical time (eighty-six thousand four hundred seconds charted every day) 10,000 years (10,000 years) Marking out time (as the years go by) What will it see (10,000 years) As the decades and centuries tick by I can't imagine the future, but I know I'm part of a story Are we being good ancestors? Titanium pendulum Shielded by quartz class Sapphire cupola High molybdenum Stainless steel mechanism Ceramic ball-bearings 10,000 years (10,000 years) Marking out time (as the years go by) What will it see? (10,000 years) As the years tick away As the decades and centuries tick by As the years and the decades and centuries and millennia tick by