///*****/// [Intro] The first bell shivers over a solar-sail vessel beyond the familiar constellations, And every window hides a listening face. I taste the coming storm in copper air, I hear tomorrow dragging iron chains. [Verse 1] A stranger sells the safety found in silence, A soldier calls obedience a peace. Below the streets a buried engine hammers, Commanding every borrowed fear to cease. I touch the mark that brought me to this hour, I count the cost and do not turn away. The night may own the towers and the banners, It does not own the choice I make today. [Pre-Chorus] Let the warning drums awaken, Let the hidden doors unseal. What was whispered now is spoken, What was wounded now is steel. [Chorus] Meet me on the far side of Orion! Let the hammering heavens hear our cry. Meet me on the far side of Orion! We were born to stand, not wait to die. Through the smoke, through the wound, through the night that calls us liars, We will carry living iron, we will carry living fires. Meet me on the far side of Orion! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky. [Verse 2] They promised peace, but sent us a collapsing star that bends memory and time. They dressed the oldest hunger up as law. I watched the faithful trade away their names, I watched the proud salute the thing they saw. Then in the ruin I uncovered a golden compass whose needle points into the past; No jeweled relic, only proof made bright. It held the warmth of everyone who fell, And showed my empty hands what they must fight. [Chorus] Meet me on the far side of Orion! We were born to stand, not wait to die. Through the smoke and through the wound, carry the living fire. Meet me on the far side of Orion! Raise the truth across the sky. [Bridge] If I return alone, remember this: I will cross the light to save the life I have not lived. No monument can breathe for those it buries, No sacred word can make a falsehood clean. The future is not granted by the mighty; It starts wherever ordinary hearts convene. [Guitar Solo - a two-part cosmic solo: lyrical call-and-response over half-time, then fast harmonized ascent as the drums return] [Rhythm guitars hold the central motif while bass and drums widen the battlefield.] [Verse 3] This is the tale of an astronaut pursuing a signal sent by her future self. The weak became a wall around each other, The lost became a road across the rain. We learned that hope is neither soft nor silent, It bites the hand that feeds the world despair. It lifts the fallen standard from the gutter, And makes a kingdom out of those who care. [Final Chorus] Meet me on the far side of Orion! Let the last horizon answer to our cry. Meet me on the far side of Orion! We have learned the dark can bleed and empires die. Through the smoke, through the wound, through the years that tried to break us, We are neither owned nor ended; every scar will remake us. Meet me on the far side of Orion! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky.
