[Verse 1] No dawn No darkness No one to say What either meant Before the word Before the wanting The willingness [Verse 2] No clocks were waiting to be wound No foot had reason for the ground The sea had never learned its shore There was no less There was no more No throne, no witness, no command No dust to gather in a hand And where no place could ever be A possibility broke free Not make me great, not make me known Not build a kingdom, build a throne Only a question without breath What if the endless could say yes? [Chorus] Who thought to know it? How to open? Who made a room for what could break? A universe before its heartbeat And something willing it awake Who cares? A crown no head can wear Will be beyond the reach of prayer Why would forever let time in? Why let a mortal story begin? No scepter and no throne No voice that ever called its own The first years had no sound at all yet Everything began to fall into being [Bridge] Into being [Verse 3] No child had learned the word goodbye No mother searched an empty sky No hand had reached across a bed To touch the warmth not vanished yet No lover missed a final train No hour had given salt to rain No grave that interrupted spring No bird had ever tried to sing And all the beauty still unborn Was waiting with its hidden thorn For what is life if not the cost Of loving something that gets lost? To make a world that cannot stay Is that a gift or debt to pay? If nothing needed to exist Then why was nothingness dismissed? [Chorus] Who cares? A crown no head can wear Will be beyond the reach of prayer Why would forever let time in? Why let a mortal story begin? No scepter and no throne No voice that ever called its own The first years had no sound at all yet Everything began to fall into being [Outro] I cannot ask the stars to answer I cannot make the silence speak But somewhere in the thought a forever Was room enough for something weak I will not call it mercy I will not call it sin If all creation is an answer What question let us in? Who wanted beauty with an ending? Who wanted love that couldn't stay? Who gave the darkness all these windows And taught the light to go away? Together Before the first beginning Together Before the first goodbye Why would forever let time in? Why let a mortal story begin? No crown of gold No throne of bones Only the terrible possibility Of a lost Of a lost Before the word Before the world Before the first And final Breath There was no answer Only yes
