Ten Plugs to Victory
Intro
Verse 1
Dust on the history, heat on the screen
Waking the ghost in a quiet machine
Just an engineer and a scholar of the past
Setting the rotors, the eighth wheel fast.
Eighty years waiting for a voice to break through
Alan, we’re finishing the final run for you.
Chorus
Ten plugs to victory, pulling the thread
Waking Christopher from the land of the dead
V R O L, N M K A
Assuming the letters haven't led us astray
We’re turning the dials in the digital night
Waiting for the Bombe to catch the light.
Verse 2
The middle wheel pinned, holding the line
Decoding the static, reading the sign
A Welchman diagonal, a spark in the wire
Feeding the algorithm into the fire.
Two minds in the present, one mind in the past
Hoping this silence will be the very last.
Chorus
Ten plugs to victory, pulling the thread
Waking Christopher from the land of the dead
V R O L, N M K A
Assuming the letters haven't led us astray
We’re turning the dials in the digital night
Waiting for the Bombe to catch the light.
Bridge
No mistranscription, no room for a slip
We’re riding the edge of a sinking ship
The menus are spinning, the logic is tight
Out of the shadows and into the bright
Out of the shadows and into the bright!
Chorus
Ten plugs to victory, pulling the thread
Waking Christopher from the land of the dead
V R O L, N M K A
The cipher is breaking, the code falls away!
We’re turning the dials in the digital night
We finally caught the light.
Outro
The eighth wheel slows.
The middle wheel rests.
Alan, we passed the test.