Our System - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark

Across the Universe

Our system is expanding

Crystal velvet void

Stained by the disease

Empty words and deeds

Pleading to the ether

Perfect wires and steel

Pierced the cold abyss

Across the Universe

We’re reaching into Heaven

Only to perceive

No-one there at all

Every world we reach

Perfect, pure and clean

Every word we preach

Spoken to deceive

Across the Universe

We’re broken and we’re bleeding

Pointing to the stars

Stolen by degree

Taken to the edge

Beautiful, serene

Save us from ourselves

Delivered from this end