It takes weeks, even years, to write a song. NPR Music’s Project Song challenges musicians to do it in just two days. And every Project Song participant has worked right up to the last minute — that is, until Moby.

This is my favourite song of the year, so far.

UPDATE: I couldn’t the find the lyrics anywhere, so I transcribe the song myself.

Thin light escapes
We run fast and we wait
All the time we wait, all the days we played

Somewhere there’s a Sunday in the fall,
Where you love is safe and warm,
Where everything was right
But I’m never goin’ home

Midnight is long
The life I knew is gone
There is nothing that I’ve ever seen
Darker than it’s ever been

Somewhere there’s a Sunday in the fall,
Where you love is safe and warm,
Where everything was right
But I’m never goin’ home

The Sun is gone
The lights have gone to sleep
I never knew the dark would be so deep
Somewhere you are warm
But I’m never goin’ home

Somewhere there’s a Sunday in the fall,
Where you love is safe and warm,
Where everything was right
But I’m never goin’ home