[Title: Kolob After Dark] [Intro - Lone Theremin, Deep Pad, One Gated Drum Hit] . . . ! . . . . ! . . . [Verse 1 - Hushed, Close-Mic, Wondering] It was midnight in the backyard and the sprinklers had gone quiet, and the sky did that thing where it stops being a sky. And I remembered what they taught me in a basement when I was nine — that there's a governing star, and my forever has an address in the sky. [Pre-Chorus - Building, Arpeggio Rising] Nobody grabbed me. Nobody took me. I looked up... and I said yes. [Chorus - Full Bloom, Wide Harmonies] Take me up to Kolob after dark! (after dark...) One day up there is a thousand of the ones I've had down here — so give me one day, give me one day, let me see what I've been missing, 'cause I have been so patient and so small for all these years. Worlds without number... oh, worlds without number, and I want them. Take me up to Kolob after dark. [Verse 2 - Amused, Getting Bolder] Now the papyrus had a picture and the picture had a caption, and the caption called it first in government, nearest to the throne. I didn't write it. I didn't dream it. I did not invent a word of it — you put it in the canon, then you left me with the book alone. [Pre-Chorus - Rising, Breathier] They said, endless increase. They said, no end to it. Sir... do you know what that sounds like when you're grown? [Chorus - Euphoric, Soaring] So take me up to Kolob after dark! (after dark...) Where a thousand years is Tuesday and there's nobody keeping score, where the increase is eternal and eternity is roomy, and I have never in my life been told that I could ask for more. Worlds without number... mmm, worlds without number, and I'll take them. Take me up to Kolob after dark. [Instrumental - Theremin and Arpeggio Solo, Widescreen] ! . . ! . ! . ! . . ! . !! . ! . ! ! [Bridge - Spoken, Delighted and Faintly Dangerous] And then I came back down and I told everybody. And the room got quiet. And a nice man in a nice tie explained to me that we don't really talk about that part of space anymore. That it's poetic. That it's symbolic. That it's metaphor. ...You put it in the scriptures. And then you acted like I made it up. [Build - Pad Swelling, Drums Doubling, Harmonies Stacking] . ! . . ! . ! . ! . ! ! ! ! . ! ! ! [Final Chorus - Rewritten, Alone and Radiant] So I'll go up to Kolob by myself if I'm the only one! (only one...) I'm the woman on the lawn at two A.M. who wouldn't put the book back down, and the whole ward drives past slowly and absolutely won't make eye contact, and I am standing in my bathrobe with the biggest thing in town. Worlds without number — you had worlds without number — and you traded them for casseroles and shame. Take me up to Kolob after dark. I'll leave the porch light on... and I'll go anyway. [Outro - Voice Alone, Crickets, One Held Pad]
