Mercury

[Intro] Run, little world, run [Verse 1] Smallest of the eight, barely bigger than a moon Iron heart and a rock-thin coat Eighty-eight days and the year is done While a single day takes one hundred seventy-six to go No air to hold the heat at night No cloud to keep the morning kind Four hundred thirty in the burning light Minus one eighty left behind [Chorus] Eighty-eight days, eighty-eight days Closest to the fire and I never slow Eighty-eight days, eighty-eight days The fastest thing the Sun will ever know [Verse 2] Caloris Basin, fifteen hundred wide A scar from when the sky threw stone Craters hold the ice inside their shade Water at the poles, and no one home Messenger came and circled me Then fell to rest upon my ground The swiftest one in the old stories Still running, never found [Bridge] Too close to look at, too quick to hold Too small to keep what the Sun gives out A world of iron, a world of cold Burning and freezing, turn about [Final Chorus] Eighty-eight days, eighty-eight days Closest to the fire and I never slow Eighty-eight days, eighty-eight days The fastest thing the Sun will ever know [Outro] Run, little world, run