Sailing through the air, cast on the green
Apple falling from the Mother tree
Orphan of the fall, don't cast envy
A father you had not, but you'll someday be.

Forgotten fruit decayed into the earth
Brother seeds estranged at humble birth
One took root in shade, one poached by a bird
One withered away, one felt its worth.

Etched into the fabric of the earth
Are lessons you must formulate to words
The oak that stands alone, encroached by none
May lift its limbs unhindered toward the sun

Under the deep and darkest night
There hides a flickering candlelight
Its name is truth, it waits for you
To come, to come, to come.

Under the deep and darkest night
There hides a flickering candlelight
It waits for you, but it's fading soon
So run, so run, so run

Back at the start, I was a boy
You gave me your heart, I held it like a toy
That I won from the pinstriped suit at the summer fair
Just another fancy trinket that I could wear
And I said these words were true,
Still I had much to prove.

Oh let's go back to that night on the grass
Just laying there watching Orion roll past
And I knew right then that everything had changed
The verse that never worked was rearranged
I say these words are true,
I lay them before you.

Now I ain't no prince, but I am a man
You gave me your heart and upon it I'll stand
A rock I claim and mark as holy ground
The most precious plot of earth I've ever found
And out of timber-wood and truth
I build this house for you
Oh, I swear these words are true,
I'll leave them here with you.

Flyin' over the fields and shifting seas
We are doomed but we are free
Free to make our perilous ways
And it's stranger than I can believe
What greater gift could one receive
Than time, a pen, and an open page

And I know, yeah I know
There's an awful hollow void beyond the veil
But the unknown, yeah the unknown
Is the only course I'm not afraid to sail
So let's sail

And one day I'll only be a stone
Marking where they laid my bones
Just a sentence and a name
To try and explain
What could never be described
We've all lived a million lives
The finer points are much the same

And I know, yeah I know
There's a final, silent blackness round the bend
Oh, so I won't, no no I won't
Look away until I know it as a friend
As a friend

Oh, we know the end
The vultures start to gather overhead
So face the dawn
And sing on, sing on.

I have often wondered
If all that I can see
And all that I can marvel at
Would marvel back at me

Oh, my dearest mother
Don't wait up for me
I am lost and wandering
A dream, a reverie

Golden rays peek over the trees
I seek to leave the sun at peace
When it looks upon my soul

Oh, my sweet songbird, where have you gone?
I heard your songs but sang them wrong
I caged you and you carried me
Now graceful bird, you're burden free

Oh frightful siren, don't pull me down
You drew me in, seduced by sound
Voracious monster, lay me to waste
Now help yourself, if you like the taste

Oh gentle goddess, my fragile muse
Left behind, betrayed and used
Oh darling dove, hide your love away
This world's an awful, painful place
This world's an ugly, hateful place

Such a lonely man, so finely dressed
Plays at life like a game of chess
Tell me, what will the poor soul think
When his hand, with its wristwatch and rings
Starts to shake and then topples his king
Tell me now, what will he think?

And the land provides, it gives all you need
So travel light, go wild and free
May your plans only follow your feet
Take in stride every turn that you greet
For every step taken's a treat
Golden and sweet it all can be

And only love, all the time, all the time
Just take enough, more is a crime, more is a crime
Help me give it all up, nothing is mine, nothing is mine
I'm a wayward grateful fool, and that's alright

And we're only dust, swept up by the breeze
We're paper boats adrift on an endless sea
Kept afloat by the ocean's grace
And undone by a lone rogue wave
But until I am sent on my way
I'll laugh with the stars, they know my name

And only love, all the time, all the time
Just take enough, more is a crime, more is a crime
Help me give it all up, nothing is mine, nothing is mine

And one day, you awoke for the very first time
With no recollection where you came from
How you're here or why
But you're here now, oh you're here now
Oh isn't that enough?
Just look around, yeah just look around
Such a gift that is given to us
So only love, yeah only love
This life and the beauty it brings
And rejoice, cause we don't know a damn thing.

Come, let us talk about life for a change
Cause all I got in me
Is just a little bit of time to my name
And a love you won't believe

Isn't it grand?
How you'll never know where you're going, my grandmother said
"Don't peek at the end,
It'll spoil the journey and the joy of the story ahead
That you hold in your hands."
How bland, if it always went as planned

Come, won't you look at the stars in the night
And the people on the street
They're one and the same and I'm certain in time
They'll switch places and repeat

Isn't it grand?
I asked God what's the point of it all, he just smiled and said
"You won't like it my friend,
But the meaning of life is that you're not meant to understand.
If I told you, oh, what then?
How bland, if we're just all means to an end."

Ahead, a million threads
And yet a single braid behind
A million distant memories
With no way to rewind

All we are
Are drops of water
Floating down a river of love
'Til we're dashed against the rocks and we break
And we wait to be taken back to the clouds above

There's a ticking time bomb in the center of our solar system
Warning all its daughters but they'll never listen
If you hear this in a million years, well then I'm sorry it's you
The ocean will heat up until the water forms a vapor layer
Obscuring us from all our planetary neighbors
It's a pity it'll be up there, cause it'll ruin the view

Of the greatest fireworks display our gods have ever seen
As we're all erased and burned away and purged until we're clean
As droves of us explode to dust,
Rainbows will burst as our molecules disperse

Drifting through the void, remember what we used to be long ago
Composite chorus, now a dissonance of solos
No direction, will I ever form a section of a whole again?
Mysterious complexity of elemental animation
We're walking dead, we're beautiful abominations
But we're lifeless chemistry under the microscopic focal lens

We monitor sparks, say we're connecting the dots
And claim we've found the meaning
But numerical plots can't spell out the thought
That happened in between
The gaps of all these synapses I call
My own, borrowed, and soon to be returned in full

Solar wind has spread me thin but really I have just expanded
Part of every strand of life and every planet
Liberated from my jaded form, I'm fated to be born again
Yet to comprehend the fact that matter isn't all that matters
Defining death as just another word for scattered
Call it dark, but it's brighter than a star that doesn't fade and end

Grateful for my borrowed time, now laws I must abide
As a million silver strings between them all, I'm still alive
And those of us whose souls don't rust
Will bathe in light 'til the day our atoms recollide

The wind that's in the trees
Is the same that stirs in me
The best things have always been free
I can taste the dust I'm of,
Taste the hope and loss and love
Of the countless who lived before me

So let's raise our noses high,
Let's toast to this new life
And the ecstasy found in each breath
Let's dance in the light of dawn,
While the curtain remains drawn
In this brief intermission between death

We're alive!
Magnificent, this world we're in
Where each sunrise is a symphony,
And you are a work of art.

So let's whistle while we walk
Don't heed the tick or tock
Of that mechanical bandit, the clock
If you're burdened down by time
Dive deep in another's eyes
Where the hours melt like waves on the rocks

We're alive!
Magnificent, this world we're in
Where each step you take makes history,
So join in and play your part
And each passing smile's an eternity,
Who knows what it could start?
Where each creature sings in harmony,
Let's join in with all our hearts.

We're alive!
Magnificent, this world we're in
Where each sunrise is a symphony,
And you are a work of art.
And it's more beautiful than I could ever dream
And my love, you're the very best part.

Darling of mine, as you wake up alone
Throw a smile on for me
We'll always be
Two little peas in a pod, until we're trees
We'll give the birds a home,
So they can sing.