#8 The First Ocean (Oxygen from a Dead Star)

The rain fell for a thousand years No eyes to watch, no ears to hear Just hydrogen and oxygen's kiss From a star that no longer exists That oxygen came from a stellar core A giant that died in the days before It fused and it burned and it scattered wide And now it lives in the ocean's tide The first ocean, the first salt Born from a supernova's fault You think water comes from the sky It comes from a star's forgotten cry Each molecule holds a memory dark Of fusion's fire, of the final spark Of being ripped from a core's embrace And flung like seed into empty space H₂O, H₂O You're a dead star's afterglow (Instrumental: water sounds, soft piano) The waves don't know they're made of death Each drop holds a supernova's breath So when you drink, when you swim, when you cry Remember which atoms learned to fly The first ocean, the first prayer Stardust learning to be water there (Single drop sound. Then silence.)