[Verse] Are you going to the End? Fruit, pearl, obsidian, rime Carry my name to the islands there Where builders forgot how to climb Tell them to raise me a tower of air Beyond the void where the safe roads wind Set every stair where no hand can reach And leave not a mason behind [Chorus] Are you going to the End? Fruit, pearl, obsidian, rime Look not too long at the violet gaze Some grief can cross through time Are you going to the End? Past broken gates where the pale stars bend Carry my name to the ones still there Who built before they learned to rend [Verse] Tell them to carve me a room from sound With no iron nail and no oaken beam Where rain cannot enter and arrows fall Before they arrive in the dream Tell them to gather an acre of dust Between no shore and no turning sea Plant it with blocks from a borrowed world Then ask what remains of me [Chorus] Are you going to the End? Fruit, pearl, obsidian, rime Look not too long at the violet gaze Some sorrow answers the eyes Are you going to the End? Through turquoise doors where the lost souls went Carry my name to the ones still there Who built before they learned to rend [Bridge] Once they made cities from hunger and art Raised them so high that the heavens grew small Then came the quarrel, then came the fall Then came the wing over all Now they take grass from the sleeping fields Sand from the dunes, moss from the rain Stacking the pieces with trembling hands Trying to build through the chain [Verse] Tell them to sew me a robe from dusk With no silver thread and no loom to bind Give it to one who remembers speech And keeps the old craft in mind Tell them the Dragon is circling yet Above what remains of a ruined sphere Tell them the freed ones are few and far But some still refuse to fear [Chorus] Are you going to the End? Fruit, pearl, obsidian, rime Look not too long at the violet gaze Some souls are trapped between lives Are you going to the End? Where broken paths through the void descend Carry my name to the ones still there Who built before they learned to rend [Chorus] Are you going to the End? Fruit, pearl, obsidian, rime Remember the hands that lifted the sky Before they were changed by time Are you going to the End? Past empty roads where the lost souls went Carry my name to the ones still there And tell them the world may mend [Outro] Are you going to the End? Fruit, pearl, obsidian, rime Do not stare long at the violet gaze Some grief still knows your eyes
