From a fission in the fabric From a snap in the spatial elastic From explosion comes the static And now the static's on me From a default or a small space From the sound of a voice up the staircase From an old wound comes a new ache And I'd forgotten the sting Hear the relic radiation Buzzing through the TV station Did you ever think you'd say You know what you know You've seen what you've seen? Some things never go Some things never leave The pattern of the world emerges to me Like the shadow of branches spread out under a tree And when I close my eyes all these colors I see Oh you'd think there would be something in 'em 'Cause I'm breathing in a tempest atomic And I use that air to make everything chronic So I should stop looking for reason and logic 'Cause maybe there's more than we're given I'll lie in the shade while I still can Hear the relic radiation All leftover from creation Did you ever think you'd say You know what you know You've seen what you've seen? Some things never go Some things never leave Some things never leave They never leave Some things never leave They never leave Hear the relic radiation All leftover from creation Did you ever think you'd say You know what you know You've seen what you've seen? Some things never go Some things never leave