The Vast Unknown

[Verse 1 — intimate, drifting] Out where the last light disappears I send a question through the years Wait for an echo to come home Hear my own breath and move along I followed fires across the blue Believed them all, like dreamers do But every time the distance cleared Another sky would open here [Pre-Chorus — gently rising] And I can’t tell a sign From something I want to see Is there an answer out there? Would it recognize me? [Chorus — warm, expansive] Somewhere in the vast unknown Is there a way I haven’t gone? I’m trying to leave a little light But I keep getting it wrong I reach, I fall I lose it all Still something pulls me on Somewhere in the vast unknown I’m looking for where I belong [Post-Chorus — airy, repeating] A little further out A little further on I haven’t found it yet I’m not done [Verse 2 — soft, aching] I’ve mistaken motion for a way Let good intentions lead astray Held on so hard to what seemed true I hurt the hands that held me too And there are names I carry still Across this dark, against my will I wish that wanting to be good Could mean I always understood [Pre-Chorus — building] But I can’t read the stars The way I thought I could And I’ve been wrong before When I was sure of where I stood [Chorus] Somewhere in the vast unknown Is there a way I haven’t gone? I’m trying to leave a little light But I keep getting it wrong I reach, I fall I lose it all Still something pulls me on Somewhere in the vast unknown I’m looking for where I belong [Post-Chorus — layered over the pulse] A little further out A little further on I haven’t found it yet I’m not done [Bridge — beat falls away] If no voice comes through the silence If no horizon ever clears Can I learn to walk with questions Without surrendering to fear? I don’t need to see forever Just enough to take this step Let me do some good with these hands There is time to try again [Final Chorus — full rhythm, vulnerable lead] Somewhere in the vast unknown There’s a way I haven’t gone I’m trying to leave a little light Even when I get it wrong I reach, I fall Through it all Still something pulls me on Somewhere in the vast unknown I’m learning how to carry on [Outro — distant, dissolving] A little further out A little further on No answer coming back Still I send another song