Signal To Noise Lyrics - Singles - Under Black Clouds

From my armchair I look into the future, see the darkness rising 

a tidal wave that takes my thoughts and flood them into the past 

on to the shore of puzzled memories, torn and forgotten 

now forming just the silhouettes of a pale story I once heard. 

A tale about 999's last days in december 

when the people of Rome all gathered in the dark and cold 

to watch a great clock's hands ending the dial's top 

thousands of eyes hypnoticed by the midnight strikes. 

But suddenly it stopped right inbetween - and all was silent 

some people died in hopeless fear, was this the end of time 

as silence burst out into madness, screams and tears 

will the Four Horsemen be our fate, or panic rip out minds? 

Silently the clock went on, a new millenium born 

and silently the night now shows me it's oh so absolute form 

but soon comes down scratching the monolith black 

as slowly spreads the story's meaning in me as a zodiac sign did.