[The Heavy Weight of Stars] [ Verse 1 ] Ryland wakes alone within a sterile white-walled room. Computer voices speak to him across the heavy gloom. The plastic tubes are loosened from his tired, aching frame. He searches through his clouded mind for every faded name. [ Pre-Chorus 1 ] The silence in the corridor is heavy as a stone. A traveler who knows that he is drifting on his own. [ Chorus 1 ] We reach across the hollow dark to find a reason why. The sparks of hope are burning out within a dying sky. When every road is leading to a cold and final rest. We find the strength to face the end and pass the hardest test. [ Verse 2 ] Annie Shapiro lies frozen in her bunk of gray. Beside her, Max Erhardt has also passed away. The mummified remains are all that's left of those who died. A lonely sailor staring at the ghost he keeps inside. [ Pre-Chorus 2 ] Eva Stratt had planned the course to save a dying land. The weight of every human life is resting on his hand. [ Chorus 2 ] A choice is made in shadows where the light can never reach. Beyond the simple languages that we could never teach. To lose ourselves in service of a world we left behind. The greatest love is in the bonds that only spirits find. [Instrumental Break - Sweeping Orchestral Strings Swell] [ Bridge 1 ] The Blip-A ship appears within the reach of Tau Ceti. A chord of music sounds to make the science steady. They build a bridge of math and sound like whales within the sea. A partner in the darkness comes to set the planets free. [ Verse 3 ] He finds a way to talk across the distance of the stars. With chords and notes he breaks away the solar bars. The Astrophage is hungry and the sun is growing cold. A symphony of science is the story to be told. [ Pre-Chorus 3 ] The language of the universe is written in the deep. The laws of physics are a promise we must keep. [ Chorus 3 ] The distance is a teacher that will show us who we are. We find a second family in a light that shines afar. It isn't blood or heritage that binds a kindred soul. But how we mend the broken parts to make a vision whole. [ Bridge 2 ] The Beetle probes are sent to carry cures across the blue. He sets a course for home to start his weary life anew. But Rocky is in danger and he cannot let him go. He turns the Hail Mary around toward the world below. [ Verse 4 ] He trades the air of Earth for shadows on a foreign plain. To save a distant brother from a life of grief and pain. A modified Eridian clock is ticking on the wall. He saved a friend and lost his world to answer duty's call. [ Pre-Chorus 4 ] The path to home is open and the fuel is burning bright. But leaving him in darkness wouldn't ever make it right. [ Final Chorus ] The sacrifice we offer is the measure of the heart. To give up everything we know and tear the past apart. True humanity is found within the choices that we make. To save another life is all the glory we can take. [ Outro ] The whale song echoes softly in the silence of the dark. The beetle flies across the void to leave a human mark. A teacher tells his story on a distant, heavy sphere. Redemption found at last, the path is finally clear.
