[Intro — Radio Static, Female Spoken Vocal] Frequency eighty-eight… Midnight transmission. Unknown vessel— Do you receive me? [Filtered Male Transmission] “I can see the harbour from here.” [Verse 1] Blue light moving underneath the wheels Empty roads and signals I can feel Every night, one minute before twelve Your voice returns from somewhere else No destination on the radio No island on the maps below Only a song from nineteen seventy-six And coordinates that should not exist [Pre-Chorus] Calling through the midnight Calling through the blue Every broken signal Leads me back to you [Chorus] The harbour looks beautiful from here All the distant lights are drawing near If you can hear me through the atmosphere Follow my frequency I’ll meet you there The harbour looks beautiful tonight Blue reflections turning into white I hold your voice against my lonely ear You keep calling From another year [Post-Chorus] Frequency eighty-eight One minute before midnight Frequency eighty-eight Don’t let the signal die [Japanese Female Whisper] Kikoemasu ka? Can you hear me? Watashi wa koko ni iru I am still here [Verse 2] Past the warehouses, beyond the signs I found the terminal you described A silent ferry breathing in the mist A name erased from every passenger list There you stood beneath the signal light Young forever in the cobalt night You held your hand across the years to me While black waves moved without a sea [Pre-Chorus] Calling through the midnight Calling through the blue Every broken signal Leads me back to you [Chorus] The harbour looks beautiful from here All the distant lights are drawing near If you can hear me through the atmosphere Follow my frequency I’ll meet you there The harbour looks beautiful tonight Blue reflections turning into white I hold your voice against my lonely ear You keep calling From another year [Breakdown — Beat Stops, Radio Noise] [Male Transmission] “Mika… The ferry leaves when the signal ends.” [Female Spoken Vocal] If I cross the water Will I still remember my name? [Male Transmission] “No. But you will remember mine.” [Build — Sequencer Gradually Returns] Hachi… Hachi… Eighty-eight… Hachi… Hachi… Stay awake… [Remix Drop] One light One voice One minute left to choose One life One crossing One world I have to lose Frequency eighty-eight Carry me across the night Frequency eighty-eight Keep his signal alive [Electric Guitar and Analog Synth Duet] [Final Chorus] The harbour looked beautiful from there Like another life we almost shared But I could not vanish with the atmosphere So I left our song Between the years The harbour looks beautiful tonight Your ferry is dissolving into light Still, every night, you find my lonely ear And you tell me— “It is beautiful from here” [Outro — Pulse Gradually Slows] Frequency eighty-eight… Transmission fading… Frequency eighty-eight… Vessel unidentified… [Male Whisper] “The harbour looks beautiful…” [Female Whisper] “From here.”
