[Intro — distant banjo, low drone, almost spoken] Before the name Before the face Before the hands Before the place Before the first breath Before the cry Something was here That could not die [Verse 1] I woke up wearing hands once Forgot I'd ever been the sky Learned a name Learned a story Learned to call this body I I touched the earth I tasted rain I learned desire I learned pain I looked into another face And somehow knew it wasn't strange [Pre-Chorus] Different eyes Different skin Different doors I wandered in A thousand beginnings A thousand goodbyes One Life Having adventures in time [Chorus] One Spirit A billion stories Walking through time Wearing our names Losing Itself Finding Itself Calling each journey A different game Laughing as children Breaking as lovers Standing at graves And asking why One Spirit Countless adventures Passing through form Passing through time [Verse 2] I was the child beneath the table Listening while the grown folks spoke I was the old man by the window Watching evening turn to smoke I held a hand I let one go I chased a dream I lost a home I stood beneath a million stars Feeling strangely less alone [Pre-Chorus] Every heartbeat Every face Every moment Every place What if eternity Wanted to know What it felt like To come and go? [Chorus] One Spirit A billion stories Walking through time Wearing our names Losing Itself Finding Itself Calling each journey A different game Laughing as children Breaking as lovers Standing at graves And asking why One Spirit Countless adventures Passing through form Passing through time [Instrumental Break — banjo, cello, distant vocal echoes] Names fade Faces fade Rooms disappear Years become memory But something Keeps looking Something Keeps hearing Something Was here Before the story began [Verse 3 — more intimate] Maybe I wore another name once Maybe I loved through other eyes Maybe the Life inside this body Never entered Never arrived Maybe birth Was not beginning Maybe death Is not goodbye Maybe form Is just the doorway Infinite Life Walks through in time [Bridge — drums drop out] Then shall the dust Return to the earth As it was And the Spirit Shall return unto God Who gave it [Pause] But where does a wave return Except to the ocean It always was? [Build] Did the wave become the ocean Or did it only stop Calling itself a wave? [Final Chorus — huge, layered voices] One Spirit A billion stories Walking through time Wearing our names Losing Itself Finding Itself Over and over Again and again Born as a child Leaving as elders Falling in love Learning goodbye One Spirit Countless adventures Moving through bodies Moving through time One Spirit Never divided One Life Behind every eye One Spirit Remembering slowly I was never only This life [Outro — everything falls away except voice and banjo] The dust goes home To the dust The breath goes home To the One And maybe home Was never somewhere We had to reach Maybe we never left [Long pause] If you were Infinite Life What else would you do With eternity? [Banjo continues alone, slowly fading]
