Verse 1 (Spoken-sung, contemplative) Well, they sent him to war when he was seventeen And wars have a way of taking more than they give His father fought the slavers in the void The kind of death that teaches you how to live But Skip, he couldn't save the man who made him So he ran to New London's darkest streets Where the wine flows backward into sorrow And every pleasure turns to ash when it meets Verse 2 (Building slightly) His father's ghost came calling in a dream Said "Boy, you're drowning in the shallows of yourself" So he rose from those bright and bitter ruins And put his guilt back on the shelf He became a hunter of lost worlds In the spaces between what was and what might be But when the assassins came calling that day He fell through a window into mystery Verse 3 (More contemplative) Into a land where the people stand alone Each soul an empire unto itself Where the makers' dream of wholeness Left everyone reaching for someone else And Skip, he walks among their strange science Like a man who remembers a half-forgotten song While something in his blood whispers secrets About where the broken pieces belong Chorus (Haunting, repetitive) And now he's walking through No Man's Land Where there are no men, there are no women Just the children of a failed paradise Learning what it means to be human He's walking through No Man's Land Where every heart beats in solitude And something calls to something In the ancient language of blood Verse 4 (Reflective, with growing warmth) There was a king, a mage, a guard All running from tomorrow's knife And Skip learned to fight the way they fight While learning a different way to live his life The enemies come bearing old grudges But he stands unbroken in that place Where inheritance means more than titles And love wears a stranger's face Final Chorus (Slow, meaningful) Yes, he's walking through No Man's Land Where the engineers' prayer went unanswered Where each soul carries the weight of two But the burden was never shared He's walking through No Man's Land With wonder as his only creed Looking for the thing that was always there In the place where hearts learn to bleed Outro (Whispered, hopeful) And maybe that's the only way to heal In No Man's Land... Where the lost find their way To each other In No Man's Land... Where love learns Its true name In No Man's Land...
