Preventive maintenance could clear all the lines With proper calibration, be running on time A faulty indicator detected by chance Could save a thousand hours going over the plans At a cost of two hundred dollars an hour It was worth the money to restore the power With everything running, we proceeded as planned Put the setback behind us and moved on with the task at hand Despite unusual interference, we locked onto the signal That day was nothing exciting, business as usual So we waited all night just for a simple clue That would allow us to enter on cue After two weeks, we still hadn't a thing We sat and listened for what we thought patience would bring We never got what we hoped for The sounds were absurd, we didn't like what we heard