[Verse 1]
Night shift hums through the deck
Warm lamps over greens in rows
Coolant air and rising bread
We mend what the dark erodes
Footsteps learn each narrow turn
Hands remember every bolt
Outside is a silent burn
Inside, we keep it whole

[Pre-Chorus]
Maps are thin, the years are wide
We measure time in harvest light
If the course forgets our name
We still hold steady all the same

[Chorus]
We are the quiet engines on
A long, small light that won’t go out
Between the stars, we carry on
No marching drums, no shouting loud
Let the distance do its work
Let the numbers fade and blur
We learn the drift, we keep the hearth
We are here—so we endure

[Verse 2]
New hands take the same old tools
Same scuff marks by the helm
Names are carved in steel like rules
Passed down, word by word, by them
Kids draw oceans on the glass
Laugh and fog the window clear
We don’t chase what’s in the past
We keep the living near

[Pre-Chorus]
Signals leave and don’t return
Tiny blinks swallowed by the night
Still the hull hears quiet rain
And we sleep in shifting light

[Chorus]
We are the quiet engines on
A long, small light that won’t go out
Between the stars, we carry on
No marching drums, no shouting loud
Let the distance do its work
Let the numbers fade and blur
We learn the drift, we keep the hearth
We are here—so we endure

[Bridge]
If there was a blue sky once
It’s a story, soft and true
We don’t need a promised sun
To keep a promise to the crew
In the gentle pull of spin
In the chores we never curse
Love is just the day we’re in
And the calm that follows first

[Final Chorus]
We are the quiet engines on
A long, small light that won’t go out
Between the stars, we carry on
With patient hands and steady mouths
Let the distance do its work
Let the numbers fade and blur
We learn the drift, we keep the hearth
We are here—so we endure

[Outro]
Night shift hums through the deck
Running lights in endless blue
We don’t beg the void to bend
We do what we came to do