Neptune

[Intro] Before the eye, the equation Before the light, the guess [Verse 1] Uranus wandered from the line they drew Something out there pulling it aside Le Verrier and Adams did the sums And told the telescopes where to ride Eighteen forty-six, first night of looking There I was, exactly as foretold A planet found by pencil before glass The deepest blue the dark can hold [Chorus] Found in the mathematics Before anybody looked my way Two thousand one hundred kilometres an hour The fastest wind that blows in any day [Verse 2] One hundred sixty-five of your years To take me once around the Sun I've been here one full year since you found me One birthday since it all begun A great dark spot that came and went A storm the size of your whole world Triton circling me the wrong way round A stolen moon, slowly falling, slowly curled [Bridge] Voyager Two, nineteen eighty-nine The last thing it would ever see Then out into the dark forever Carrying the last picture of me [Final Chorus] Found in the mathematics Before anybody looked my way Two thousand one hundred kilometres an hour The fastest wind that blows in any day [Outro] Before the eye, the equation And then, the blue