Miranda

[Intro] Pieces that don't match Held together anyway [Verse 1] Four hundred seventy kilometres wide And nothing about me agrees Terraces beside old cratered plains Ridges running into seas of frozen debris They say I broke and came back together Or the heat rose in patches from below Either way I look assembled From parts that didn't know each other, and don't know [Chorus] Verona Rupes, twenty kilometres down The tallest cliff that anyone has found Step off the edge in gravity this light And fall ten minutes before you hit the ground [Verse 2] Voyager Two came by in eighty-six And looked at me for one short day The only time a camera has been here Then it turned and went away No orbiter, no lander, no return A handful of frames, grainy and grey A world that only got one photograph And forty years to wait for the next day [Bridge] Ten minutes falling. Think of that. Time enough to change your mind twice Time enough to see the whole thing coming On a moon made out of ice [Final Chorus] Verona Rupes, twenty kilometres down The tallest cliff that anyone has found Step off the edge in gravity this light And fall ten minutes before you hit the ground [Outro] Pieces that don't match Still a world