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a-ha – Start the Simulator (2009) | Track profile | Dork

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a-ha
Cast in Steel
Start the Simulator

TRACK

Start the Simulator

Release date: 12th June 2009

From Cast in Steel

About This Track

"Start the Simulator" is a track by a-ha, from the album Cast in Steel, released 12th June 2009. Full lyrics are available below.

About the Artist

a-ha

a-ha

Lyrics

Start the Simulator

Start the simulator

Controllers, listen up

What's your status, Guidance?

Let's take it from the top

Coming up on docking

The beginnings of a tear

Clearing the tower

We take to the air

Start the simulator

Give your tanks a stir

The bright ejecta blanket

All is still a blur

Switch to Omni Bravo

B bus under volt

Roll right to zero

Steady as she goes

We're going to fly so high

Into the rendered sky

We're going to be all right

Inside the endless night

Start the simulator

I.S.O. valves are gray

EDS to manual

Translation looks okay

Save it for the splash-down

Things you want undone

You're in command now

Your home away from home

You're in control now

Now you're on your own

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

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Track details

From Cast in Steel

2009

Listen

Album

Release year

2009

—Mythomania
—Forest Fire
—Goodbye Thompson
—Giving Up The Ghost
—Shadow Endeavors
—The End Of The Affair
—Door Ajar
—Living At The End Of The World
—Mother Nature Goes to Heaven
—She's Humming A Tune
—Start the Simulator

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Writer: Paul Waaktaar-Savoy
Producer: Mark Saunders, Roland Spremberg