Title: Land’s End [Verse 1] The harbor lights burned far behind. Gold on the water. Gold on the stone. The boat rose slow. The boat fell slow. The sea breathed dark beneath the keel. The stars hung clear. The wind lay still. Nothing was wrong. Nothing at all. [Verse 2] I watched the shore. I watched again. The lights were smaller than before. A coldness touched the back of my neck. My jaw went tight. My hands went numb. I drew a breath. It stopped halfway. I tried again. The air felt thin. [Pre-Chorus] The sea was calm. The sea was calm. Why did my heart begin to run? [Chorus] At Land’s End something opened. Not in the water. Not in the sky. Inside. The stars looked through me. The dark looked through me. The next thought came and broke apart. My mouth went dry. My skin turned cold. And all the names fell off the world. [Verse 3] The boat rose. The boat fell. The hull complained against the swell. I looked for comfort in the shore. The shore seemed distant now. The lights still burned. The stars still burned. Yet none of them felt near. I knew where I was. I knew where I was. Yet suddenly I wasn’t sure. [Bridge] What if the clouds came? What if the stars died? What if the lights vanished? What if the sea remained? The water beneath me. The dark around me. No voice. No answer. No edge. No end. [Final Chorus] At Land’s End the world grew strange. The sea grew larger than the sea. The night grew larger than the night. The dark stood up inside the dark. My chest turned hollow. My thoughts went still. The boat rose. The boat fell. And something vast drew near without moving. [Outro] The harbor lights still burned behind. The stars still burned above. Nothing had changed. Nothing had changed. That was the terror.
