Frank Turner - Silent Key (Acoustic Version Live at Assault & Battery Studio)

Buy/Stream: https://frankturner.lnk.to/NoMansLandSo 'Tales From No Man's Land' Podcast: https://frankturner.lnk.to/NMLSubscribe More info: www.frank-turner.com 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 her 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: We're still alive. Four thousand nautical miles as the crow flies away A home-made ham radio in the loft of an Hampshire family home Came alive, came alive, came alive. The four year old amateur operator thus became the only person to hear Christa’s last desperate communique: “We’re alive, we're alive, we’re alive”. It came as some surprise to realise that While he didn’t catch everything, The world was revealed in a transmission so real That he understood everything. We're still alive. The darkness up above Led me on like unrequited love, While all of 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.