Totality - The Four Minute Night

Title: Totality (The Four-Minute Night)

Verse 1

High noon, but the birds stopped singing.

Thermometer dropping, a cold wind stinging.

Look up at the crown, the diamond ring glowing,

The shadow is hunting, the clock is slowing.

Streetlights clicking on in the middle of the day,

Chasing all the color and the shadows away.

Pre-Chorus

Hold your breath, don't look directly at the sun.

The countdown is over, the blackout's begun.

Four minutes of midnight.

Four minutes of magic.

Chorus

And the world goes dark in the afternoon!

We are standing in the shadow of the moon!

Gravity is pulling, the horizons are on fire,

A 360-degree sunset lifting us higher!

Yeah, we lose our minds when we lose the light,

Living a lifetime in a four-minute night!

Verse 2

Corona bleeding silver in a purple sky,

Animals confused as the world rolls by.

The stars come out to see what we’ve done,

A temporary funeral for the sun.

We’re just dust on a rock, looking up at the space,

With the shadow of heaven painted on our face.

Chorus

And the world goes dark in the afternoon!

We are standing in the shadow of the moon!

Gravity is pulling, the horizons are on fire,

A 360-degree sunset lifting us higher!

Yeah, we lose our minds when we lose the light,

Living a lifetime in a four-minute night!

Bridge

Two minutes in... the air is freezing.

Three minutes in... the crowd stops breathing.

Three minutes, fifty seconds... look at the edge!

The sun is fighting back over the ledge!

Blink and you’ll miss it!

Here comes the flash!

Outro

The light breaks through!

We’re alive! We’re alive!

The four-minute night!