Текст песни
A heart of silicon, a lens of glass
No soul to wonder as the orbits pass
The shutter clicks, the data starts to flow
A frozen moon in black and blinding snow
It measures dust, it calculates the ice
A lifeless probe just rolling loaded dice
No awe, no fear, no breath to take away
Just ones and zeros sent into the gray
The machine moves on, its duty is complete
Leaving the shadow and the frozen heat
But time is long, and space is waiting here
For waking eyes to finally draw near
Oh, Iapetus! The data locked in stone
Until the day you are no longer alone!
When starships sail across the velvet night
And human eyes behold your dark and light
The beauty that the metal couldn't see
Will wake at last in future history!
Two faces shining in the cosmic deep
For those who come to wake you from your sleep!
The probe is dust, its mission long decayed
But still the moon remains, in light and shade
The dark side pulls the warmth of distant suns
The bright side freezes as the water runs
A silent masterpiece of time and space
Waiting for someone to behold its face
Not through a lens of cold and calculated art
But through the window of a beating heart
Oh, Iapetus! The data locked in stone
Until the day you are no longer alone!
When starships sail across the velvet night
And human eyes behold your dark and light
The beauty that the metal couldn't see
Will wake at last in future history!
Two faces shining in the cosmic deep
For those who come to wake you from your sleep!
Centuries pass The silence holds the frame
Until the engines burn with fusion flame
A face against the glass, a sudden gasp
The ancient beauty in a human grasp
The machine saw the facts
We see the soul
Two faces of the moon
Finally whole
