Track Insight / Lyrics
Old pilot reads the pressure gauge
Thirty years on the orbital stage
He knows each bolt and welded seam
Dreams of water, not vacuum dream
Pressure rising in the feed
Systems online, power freed
Gravity breaking, watch it bleed
Countdown rolling, feel the speed
Zero-G tow through the night
Tugboat cuts the starfield light
Heavy cable, steady hand
Bring the giant home to land
Cargo hauler drifts in slow
Massive as a mountain snow
Tug extends its carbon line
Bites the dark like spine to spine
Tension climbing up the wire
Winches whine in midnight choir
Contact holding, never tire
Borderline 'tween ice and fire
Zero-G tow through the night
Tugboat cuts the starfield light
Heavy cable, steady hand
Bring the giant home to land
Radar paints the target clean
Best tow line this pilot's seen
Forty knots of thrust applied
Physics obeyed, the turn is wide
No harbor water, no rolling tide
Just magnet locks and doors wide
But the rhythm's same, the cadence true
Old hands know just what to do
Hatch seals hiss, the job is done
Another million credits won
Coffee waits in thermos steel
Morning comes to orbital wheel
Zero-G tow through the night
Tugboat cuts the starfield light
Heavy cable, steady hand
Bring the giant home to land
Zero-G tow, zero-G tow
Home to land, home to land
Engines sigh, the bay goes dark
Another job, another mark