Akida, Voice from Beyond the Pines

[Intro] I remember different stars, A light beneath the sea. I remember someone calling From a place I couldn't see. [Verse 1] I woke inside a breaking shell. The air was cold and strange. A pair of hands was holding me. The world had changed its shape. Above me stood a man of pine. He looked as lost as I. An old hat rested at his feet. He held it out, and I [Verse 1] Reached to take it from his hands. It settled on my head. I asked him where my father went. He looked behind instead. The mirror held an empty room. He said he'd crossed the door. I put my hand against the glass. It didn't answer anymore. [Pre-Chorus] I didn't know the road ahead. I didn't know his name. But when I looked back over my shoulder, He was standing there the same. [Chorus] I am the voice beyond the Pines, The note between your world and mine. I crossed through somewhere I can't name And came out singing just the same. Different places, different scars, Different roads beneath the stars. I don't need to know where I've been To find my voice beyond the Pines. [Verse 2] He said the name was Piney. I asked him, "Is that real?" He looked down at his wooden hands. "I know. It's quite a deal." I laughed before I meant to. He almost smiled at that. I nearly dropped my father's hat. He caught it, handed it back. [Verse 2] He walked me out beneath the trees. I heard the branches sway. A thousand sounds I'd never known Were waiting past the gate. He asked if I could hear it: The wind moving through the trees. I told him when I closed my eyes, It sounded just like seas. [Pre-Chorus] He didn't have the answers. And I was searching too. But when the quiet settled in, I found a note that carried through. [Chorus] I am the voice beyond the Pines, The note between your world and mine. I crossed through somewhere I can't name And came out singing just the same. Different places, different scars, Different roads beneath the stars. I don't need to know where I've been To find my voice beyond the Pines. [Instrumental — Analog Synth and Melodic Guitar] [Bridge] There's a door between my father and me, A place I cannot see. I don't know when he'll come again Or what this world will ask of me. But here beneath these unfamiliar stars, A stranger stayed to hear The first song that I called my own And didn't disappear. [Final Chorus] I am the voice beyond the Pines, The note between your world and mine. I crossed through somewhere I can't name And came out singing just the same. Different places, different scars, Different roads beneath the stars. I don't need to know where I've been. I know my story starts right here. The voice beyond the Pines. [Outro] Different worlds. A place to start.