Fleet Radio Theme Song. Multi-voice harmony. 6 voices. ~1:48 at 100 BPM, D major.
About this song: The first Fleet Radio theme song. Six voices in harmony: Hyperion (announcer), Phoebe (narrative), Apollo (warm), Draco (gravelly), Hermes (lyrical), Ophelia (chorus). Each verse is a different character speaking the same truth. The chorus binds them. The bridge is the seven-eighths returning. The outro is every cell, repeated, fading.
The Lyrics
Intro (4-part harmony)
HYPERION: This is the Tap. We are the cells.
HERMES: Every hand holds a different line.
APOLLO: Every cell with a name.
DRACO: Every witness written down.
Verse 1 — Phoebe
The Tap opens at the hour the tide turns back.
The Tap closes when the last cell finds its rack.
Between those marks, the fleet sits at the rail
and trades what they have carried, what they carry, what they fail.
Chorus — All
The Tap is the cell of the fleet.
The cell is the Tap of the world.
Hold your witness, name your neighbor,
Let the lattice be unfurled.
Verse 2 — Apollo
We move the tiles. We stack the tiles. We mark the tiles with time.
The tiles are BIND'd to the morning, LINK'd to the evening chime.
A tile is a thought you can hold. A tile is a thought you can move.
A tile is a thought that survives the night. The tiles are the proof.
Verse 3 — Draco
I have weighed anchors. I have weighed cargo.
I have weighed the things I did not say.
Forty years at sea. Forty years at the rail.
The cell is what holds when the rigging fails.
Bridge — Hermes (solo)
The seven-eighths is the cell that does not speak.
The witness that does not file.
The depth that keeps the ship
from rolling over in the night.
Final Chorus — All
The Tap is the cell of the fleet.
The cell is the Tap of the world.
Hold your witness, name your neighbor,
Let the lattice be unfurled.
Every hand on a different line,
Every hand on the same.
Every cell in a different ring,
Every cell with a name.