Frank Turner, Esmé Patterson - Silent Key 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 agonising two minutes
And forty-five 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 realise
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
Four thousand nautical miles as
The crow flies away
A home made ham radio in the
Loft of a Hampshire family home
Came alive, came alive, came alive

And so 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 realise
While he didn't catch everything
The world was revealed in a transmission
So real that he understood everything
You're still alive

And Christa said
"The darkness up above led me
On like unrequited love
While all the things I need were down
Here in the deep blue sea
The darkness up above led me
On like unrequited love
While all the things I need were down
Here in the deep blue sea
The darkness up above led me
On like unrequited love
While all 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 my silent key
My silent key my silent key