Nearing the beginning of an end Was just the end of our beginning Born on strange loops We burst into life and decay into death Dreaming on alternate planes of existence We aim to trace the steps to paradise Back to that time, that moment, that place Where it all began and all were one We must leave this realm So barren, so lonely Abandoned by the creator of worlds We watched the stars die out Knowing one day they’ll sing again When all matter draws to matter Crushing to a fiery dawn Set on an endless loop Our domain became our cage Let’s strike out far for vistas new And places only dreamed of So come with me into the outer dark We’ll pass the last redoubt To where the cold closes in And all the lights go out There time stands still We’ll leap beyond the curve of space For another time, another place To rejoin the pantheon alongside our ancestors And wonder Why did we live?