Before the sky Before the sea Before the stars had names There was silence Then a sound One breath inside the endless dark One voice with nowhere left to go It crossed the emptiness without a road without a light And somewhere far beyond its reach Another voice answered One became two Two became many Sound became memory Memory became story And story became us Carry the sound across the dark Carry the fire from heart to heart Different voices different names Born beneath a thousand skies We were never one We were never meant to be Still every voice that answered back became a part of history The oceans rose The mountains broke The rivers carved their names in stone The first light burned across the earth And every living thing learned how to call Some voices faded Some remained Some disappeared for years Then returned like distant stars Call Answer Call Answer Across the distance Across the years Someone speaks Someone hears Carry the sound across the dark Carry the fire from heart to heart Different roads different lives Still we meet for just a while We do not need the same beginning We do not need the same end Only one moment where our voices cross and something new begins From the first breath came the first sound From the first sound came the first answer From the first answer came another And another And another Until the silence was no longer empty One voice Two voices Ten A hundred A thousand More Through the fire Through the flood Through every fall Through every age The sound survives Passed from hand to hand From mouth to mouth From heart to heart Again Again Again Carry our voices beyond the stars Let every broken line cross somewhere No same path No same name No same ending No same fate Still we carry the first fire Still we answer the first sound You are there I am here And all the space between us is alive If the stars fall we will name them again If the roads disappear we will make them again If every voice is swallowed by the dark Listen Somewhere someone is still singing Carry the sound across the dark Carry the fire from heart to heart We came apart We came alive We lost We found We crossed the night And every sound we leave behind will reach a place we'll never see One voice becomes another One life touches another And somewhere after we are gone the song goes on Before the beginning a sound After the ending an answer
