02 / Cosmic Ignition
The Stars Go On Without Me
I watched the sky turn over me Like an ocean without end Every star was burning softly Every light too far to bend I felt the earth beneath my body Warm and moving, moving on While the night kept opening wider Like it never knew I'd gone There were colors in the darkness There were rivers made of flame There were silver clouds unfolding Without ever needing names And I stood there almost weightless With my shadow thin and drawn One breath against forever One flicker before dawn The stars go on without me The dark goes on and on The earth keeps turning softly When every trace is gone The light keeps leaving slowly The night keeps opening wide The sky will never know me But still I look inside I saw galaxies like lanterns Spilling gold into the black All that beauty stretched forever Never once was looking back There were spirals, there were embers There were worlds I'll never know There were moons in blue surrender Turning silently and slow And the more I tried to hold it The more it slipped away Like a song heard through the window At the ending of the day I could feel my heart get softer I could feel my body fade Not from dying, not from leaving Just from seeing how it's made The stars go on without me The dark goes on and on The earth keeps turning softly When every trace is gone The light keeps leaving slowly The night keeps opening wide The sky will never know me But still I look inside And it's beautiful Too beautiful to bear All this light above me All this empty air And nothing stops And nothing turns And nothing waits for me Forever blooms Forever burns Forever leaves me be I have carried little sorrows Like they were the shape of me But the sky is full of silence And the silence sets them free They just burn in distant colors They just turn and turn again With no answer for the aching With no ending to explain Still I love the endless distance Still I love the frozen blue Still I want to be a witness To the dark I'm falling through There is comfort in the quiet There is mercy in the scale When the self becomes a whisper And the whisper starts to pale The stars go on without me The dark goes on and on The earth keeps turning softly When every trace is gone The light keeps leaving slowly The night keeps opening wide The sky will never know me But still I look inside Not the center Not the meaning Not the reason Not the flame Not the answer Not the ending Not the echo Not the name Just a body Just a moment Just a shadow Just a spark Just a heartbeat Just a signal Just a candle In the dark I watched the constellations scatter Like salt across the sea And I wondered if the silence Was the truest part of me Not a silence full of anger Not a silence sharp with pain Just the hush of being human Under endless violet rain I could see the light arriving From a time before my birth I could feel myself dissolving Into sky and dust and earth And the sadness was not bitter And the sadness was not loud It was wide and almost tender Like the moon behind a cloud And it's beautiful Too beautiful to bear All this light above me All this empty air And nothing stops And nothing turns And nothing waits for me Forever blooms Forever burns Forever leaves me be The stars go on without me The dark goes on and on The earth keeps turning softly When every trace is gone The light keeps leaving slowly The night keeps opening wide The sky will never know me But still I look inside Maybe every life is only One blue flicker in the deep One brief warmth against the coldness One small dream inside of sleep Maybe everything that finds us Leaves before we understand Like a comet in the distance Like a wave across the sand But the sky keeps burning open And the dark keeps shining too And the beauty does not save me But it lets me look at you Lets me stand here in the stillness Lets me feel the turning earth Lets me know I was a moment Lets me know the moment's worth The stars go on without me The dark goes on and on The earth keeps turning softly When every trace is gone The light keeps leaving slowly The night keeps opening wide The sky will never know me But still I look inside The stars go on without me The dark goes on and on The earth keeps turning softly When every trace is gone The light keeps leaving slowly The night keeps opening wide The sky will never know me But still I look insideBack to Now We Ignite