Ranking among Brian Eno’s more narratively coherent songs, “No One Receiving” paints a vague portrait of an isolated spacecraft lost among the stars, sending out radio signals that are not received, or at least unanswered.
[Verse 1]
It will shine and it will shudder as I guide it with my rudder on its metaled ways
It will cut the night before it as it leaves the day that saw it on its metaled ways
Nobody passes us in the deep quiet of the dark sky
(In the-) Nobody sees us alone out here among the stars
[Chorus]
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways, in these metal days
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Verse 2]
Through a fault of our designing, we are lost among the windings of these metal ways
Back to silence back to minus with the purple sky behind us in these metal ways
Nobody hears us when we're alone in the blue future
No one receiving the radio's splintered waves
[Chorus]
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways, in these metal days
In these metal ways...
No One Receiving was written by Brian Eno.
No One Receiving was produced by Brian Eno & Rhett Davies.
Brian Eno released No One Receiving on Thu Dec 01 1977.