Silvery white in color
Blackening in the air
The metal rusts as soon as it's forged
A powder as unremarkable
As commonplace table salt
But throw it over your shoulder and it's transformed
Is it the burning bush of Moses
How the fires don't go out
Or that old perpetual motion
That we've dreamed so long about
And the glowing tubes of glass
Look like enchanted fairy lights
Suspended in the darkness
They are gleaming in the night
What have we done (we've set in motion)
We're flying too (a chain reaction)
Close to the sun (natural progression)
Out of control (the power of the sun)
What have we done (we've set in motion)
We're flying too (a chain reaction)
Close to the sun (natural progression)
Out of control (the power of the sun)
Maybe it was irresponsible
The genie is out of the bottle
With a fever to boil its own weight in ice
It's the alpha and omega
And gamma and beta
Passes through matter with X-ray eyes
It was a god in ancient Egypt
When the pyramids did rise
By the light of that eternal
Burning disc up in the sky
Then the chariot descended
To the darkness underground
The golden horse-drawn carriage
Was too heavy to slow down
What have we done (we've set in motion)
We're flying too (a chain reaction)
Close to the sun (natural progression)
Out of control (the power of the sun)
What have we done (we've set in motion)
We're flying too (a chain reaction)
Close to the sun (natural progression)
Out of control (the power of the sun)
There's no mistaking
Alchemical transmutation
Continual cycle of death and rebirth
Chemistry of the invisible
Hidden in mineral
Scattered like glittering stars in the earth
You're chasing down a vision
Though the nights are dark and long
You can hear it calling
In the Geiger counter's song
And the crucible is glowing
As it burns away your fears
The great work that you undertake
Lasts sixteen hundred years
What have we done (we've set in motion)
We're flying too (a chain reaction)
Close to the sun (natural progression)
Out of control (the power of the sun)
What have we done (we've set in motion)
We're flying too (a chain reaction)
Close to the sun (natural progression)
Out of control (the power of the sun)
Bad luck
Hard rock
No matter how you slice it
Or break it apart
Live once
Die twice
Find a little magic
It won't play nice