The Beacons of Somewhere Sometime Lyrics

(Part I: Maelstrom)

Somebody must have killed
The bird of good omen
Somebody must have blindly sinned and sworn
‘Gainst a bitter god

And then the ship went down
In cold light of winter
He fought the waves
But he had never learned
How to swim all alone

Voices carry so
Hush now
Silence now the roaring storm
Turn out the starlight

Right now
Shelter me
Save me
From the dying of the light
We don't own anything

And then it came on a cold misty morning
He never felt such a silence like this
He remembered the grey

Some say it is what it is
But no one knows what it does
When it comes from out of nowhere
The undertow
The endless sway of loss

Voices carry so
Hush now
Silence now the roaring storm
Stay here
Don't just walk away

Right now
Shelter me
Save me
From the dying of the light
I know
We don't own one thing

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(Part II: The Path)

It wasn't long ago
That you went astray
So silently
So quietly
Too faint to walk this old road

This winding path you trod on
Troubled with fear
Was paved with
Grey-colored clouds
Ain't no bright Turner sky

There was a weight
In the shape of a man
Infallible
Monument
The unbreakable hand

There was a weight
In the shape of a war
Invisible
So close it still
Weighs heavy on me
Let it go now

Remember the life
Remember the love
For that is all there is to say
And this was your life
And this was your love
Beneath a canopy of stars
And this was the path that led your way

And there is something
That you have passed on to me
Timidly
Shivering
Just like a moth in the palm

These are memories
The shape of a song
Gratefulness
Gentleness
Weighing softly on me
I won't let it go
The life
The love

Remember the life
Remember the love
For that is all there is to say
And this was your life
And this was your love
Beneath a canopy of stars
And this was the path that led your way

Remember the life
Remember the love
For that is all there is to say
And this was your life
And this was your love
Beneath a canopy of stars
And this is the path that led our way

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(Part III: In This Blinding Light)

Further away is all I feel now
These windswept plains
Petals are falling just like whispers
Rivulets of fall are washing over my chest

And another tired year
Ferments into wine

Come back to me
In dreams with eyes as bright as
The sunlight on a stream
Because I'm falling off

There's a birch
Guarding you
Watching over the unthinkable
This is but a picture
This is but a notion
This is nothing but a futile fight

And in this blinding light
To me you'll never grow old
In this blinding light
To me you'll never grow old
In this blinding light
To me you'll never grow old
And this is what remains
It's what I keep

Come back to me
In dreams with eyes as bright as
The sunlight on a stream
Because I'm falling off

Tides of light
Carry you, carry me
Far away from here
This is but a picture
This is but a vision
This is nothing but a futile dream

Come back to me
In dreams with eyes as bright as
The sunlight on a stream
Because I'm falling off

There's a birch
Guarding you
Watching over the unthinkable
This is what I cling to
This is how I struggle
You walk slowly out the door

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(Part IV: A Canopy of Stars)

After the storm
How can we keep moving on?
As weary as the sea
As tired as the mountains

But in the morning light
We are so surprised to see
Our flesh and bone still safe and sound
Still hoping against hope
Still breathing life

Everything seems lost
But voices in our memory

When a rainfall
Washes all away
All stories and all names
We must be holding ground

And the things that have remained
Must be enough to sustain
The splendor and the beauty
The remembrance of all moments that we've shared
Then lost in a storm

Yet you and I, we're not the same anymore
Not the same anymore

Because we live in the flicker
A moment carved into midnight darkness
Fleeting and bright
Because we live in the flicker
Beneath a canopy full of starlight
Feed my heart with memory and let me go

Because we live in the flicker
A moment carved into midnight darkness
Fleeting and bright
Because we live in the flicker
Beneath a canopy full of starlight
Feed my heart

Because we live in the flicker
A moment carved into midnight darkness
Fleeting and bright
Because we live in the flicker
Beneath a canopy full of starlight
Feed my heart with memory and let it all go