Atlantic Cable

[Part One: Worlds Apart]

[Instrumental]

[Part Two: Wayfinders]

Ten days across the water

Swift as the steamers are

Ten days of storms and danger

Two thousand fathoms and more

Soundings of depth are taken

A line sent far below

Wayfinders on the ocean

Making new ground for us all

And so it seems

Power is knowledge

And time is an object

To overcome

Close the distance

Bring all together

A world undivided

Let mankind be as one

Hard fought new ground can be lost

Signals can fade away

High seas and tempest break us

Lost to the depths and the void

And so it seems

Power is knowledge

And time is an object

To overcome

Close the distance

Bring all together

A world undivided

Let mankind be as one

[Part Three: Great Eastern]

Men of the Great Eastern

Answer the call

They have no cross to bear

They are as one

The line will hold

Bring it to earth

Give power to the words

That cross the world

From distant lands

The shape of the Great Eastern

Takes form in the mist

All that was lost is found

Back from the deep

The wire sings

New world meets old

The continents are joined

Together again

With the thrill of the line

[Part Four: Lightning Through Deep Waters]

[Instrumental]

[Part Five: The Sound of Quiet Voices]

We make new common ground

With light and sound

Close the distance

Open minds

Hear the quiet words

The wisdom of strangers

Of those left behind

We look up at the same stars

See further as one