[Intro]
[Twelve-string guitar transforms the three-note remembrance motif into an ascending phrase.]

[Verse 1]
The clocks have aligned, but one chair remains bare,
One voice is now missing from engineering air.

I cut navigation. I threatened the crew.
I spoke out of terror, but what I did is true.
Give me to security; I will not resist.

We need honest hands more than vengeance or fists.

[Pre-Chorus]
We do not erase what divided the night,
We name it, we face it, then carry the light.
The fallen bought time, not a reason to hide;
Their work is unfinished while we stand alive.

[Chorus]
We carry the light where the stars cannot,
Through chambers gone silent and metal grown hot.
We carry the light—not because we forgot,
But because every life is more than the spot
We carry the light where the stars cannot.

[Verse 2]
The crew gathered near the central display,
No rank at the front and no guards in the way.
A medic spoke first of the names they had lost,
A helmsman described every turn and its cost.
The mutineer placed both hands on the rail:
“I thought being frightened meant command had to fail.”
The first officer answered, “Trust need not be blind.
It is built when the truth reaches every deck in time.”

[Chorus]
We carry the light where the stars cannot,
Through chambers gone silent and metal grown hot.
We carry the light—not because we forgot,
But because every life is more than the spot
We carry the light where the stars cannot.

[Bridge]
Who keeps the engines?
We do—in their name.
Who guards the wounded?
We answer the same.
We carry the light where the stars cannot.

[Instrumental Break]
[Hammond and electric guitar lift the remembrance motif into the album’s heroic crew theme.]

[Verse 3]
Ahead on the screen lay the edge of the chart,
A field without markers, a black open heart.
Behind it, the queen’s fleet moved into a line,
Each vessel a blade in the storm’s crimson shine.
The captain said, “No one is ordered to stay.
The escape craft are ready. You may turn away.”
The ship held its people, and the blue heartbeat locked.

[Final Chorus]
We carry the light where the stars cannot,
Through everything taken and all we have got.
We carry the light—not because we forgot,
But because memory asks us to finish the thought.
For the hand at the chamber, the life dearly bought,
We carry the light where the stars cannot.

[Outro]
Three notes from the piano; three lights on the chart.
The crew took their stations. The engines could start.