Wise Rose far from home
Out on the road alone
Wise Rose standing stone
Relocating your bones

To a town that welcomes careful speech
The river is wide and the bridge is weak
I heard you’re staying at Grimcross
There’s work to do but it comes at a cost

Good Rose staying out of sight
Ploughing through day and night
Entering their code
Building energy unknown

There’s a dog outside in the square
Whenever you’re at your desk he’s waiting there
Crouched beneath the stone they took
When they built the station, when they opened it up

There’s a circle of solid light
It came to you in a dream last night
Rising out of the ground
Past the stones, past the square, past the barrow mound

Rose woke at Grimcross
The light was gone, it was three o’clock
And there was something moving out there
Almost blue in the black, the dog from the square

She followed him to the mound
Where the circle smouldered on the ground
She saw what she had composed
The numbers balance and unfold

How did I find myself here?
A message at work, an opportunity appeared
A research station, working on theory
Numbers and patterns and nobody near me

And what was the name of the girl?
Some kind of jewel or pearl
She said I could live inside
The town’s alright, the money’s fine

The data comes to you
Problems to solve, she laughed, and a room with a view
Just keep the work to yourself
There’s folk down there who don’t know what’s good for them

The kids told me the stones they move
Sometimes so little, so slow, it’s hard to prove
But it’s true there’s a noise I can’t place
A low roar like a god struggling awake

Working on, refining calculations
Sending them back before leaving the station
To see the subtle shift in the stones
Adjusting their position with a whirring tone

And it was one grey summer’s day
That the message on the screen it came
‘Alignment Complete – Abandon Station’
Rose ran out to where the dog was waiting

And the circle began to grow
Light slipping between the stones
And the world it began to shake
And the world it began to shake

A light that engulfed it all
A light that shot through to her core
And every living thing in the town
Was watching, raised hands upon the barrow mound

Over and over, the last communication
It all began at Grimcross Station