APORIA / Vaelith Mourne

[Intro,Whispered Female Contralto,Conflicted,Dark Sitar] There should be an answer. There should be one road one direction one moment I can trust. Instead everything contradicts itself. Everything... except you. Vyre... I know you're ahead. I just don't know which ahead is real. [Verse 1,Low Female Contralto,Restrained] The bayou opens two directions Both are marked beneath my feet One feels wrong until I follow Then the other feels incomplete Your presence pulls me through the water While my eyes insist there's none Every path divides beneath me Every ending has begun If I trust what I remember Memory changes as I move If I trust what I am seeing Sight becomes another thing to lose Still I walk Because whatever fails inside me You remain. [Pre-Chorus,Female Contralto,Female Throat Singing] Go left My shadow points right Move forward The path leaves sight Every certainty divides The moment I decide Except one You need me. [Chorus,Powerful Female Contralto,Layered Female Throat Singing] APORIA Every answer opens two APORIA Every contradiction leads to you I don't know which road is present I don't know which moon is now I don't know if these are memories Or warnings breaking out APORIA Let me question everything But never you. [Female Throat Singing,Deep,Ritualistic,Dark Sitar] [Verse 2,Close-Mic Female Contralto,Fracturing] I find your footprints in the shallows Then discover they are mine I hear your breathing to my left While something pulls me right I touch a branch still wet from movement Then watch its leaves turn dry The moon descends behind the cypress While another starts to rise Two directions Both feel certain Two moments Both feel now Two versions of the same dark water And I stand between them somehow Which one carries me toward you? Which one wants me lost? I cannot answer. So I listen deeper. [Pre-Chorus,Increasing Female Contralto] I doubt the road I doubt my eyes I doubt the hour I doubt the sky I doubt which world I'm standing in I do not doubt you. [Chorus,Massive Female Contralto,Layered Female Throat Singing] APORIA Every answer opens two APORIA Still I'm coming after you Let the pathways contradict me Let my senses disagree I don't need the world coherent I need you alive with me APORIA Take every certainty I own There is one you cannot touch. [Bridge,Spoken Female Contralto,Quietly Unraveling] What if left is right? What if forward is taking me backward? What if what I remember hasn't happened yet? What if the thing I just witnessed happened hours ago? What if I am standing in two moments and neither one will release me? I don't know. I don't know. I DON'T KNOW. But I know you. I know your fear. I know the way something inside me changes when you hurt. So let everything else be impossible. You are not. [Breakdown,Female Throat Singing,Dark Sitar,Heavy Ritual Percussion] Wrong road Turn Same road Walk Moon changes Walk Water rises Walk World divides Walk Vyre Walk [Verse 3,Deep Female Contralto,Determined,Unstable] Now I enter deeper water Without asking where it leads Contradictions gather round me Like reflections through the reeds One reflection shows me standing One is moving far ahead One is reaching toward somebody I cannot see beyond the mist I follow her Myself Or what I'll become I don't know anymore But she's moving toward you So I follow. [Final Chorus,Monumental Female Contralto,Layered Female Throat Singing,Dark Sitar] APORIA Let the question stay unresolved APORIA Nothing has to be explained Let the distance fold against me Let direction lose its name Let tomorrow cross through yesterday Let cause and ending trade APORIA I will walk through every contradiction You place before my feet Because somewhere inside all this impossibility Vyre... You are real. And I'm coming. [Outro,Whispered Female Contralto,Exhausted,Unsettling] Left or right? I don't know. Past or future? I don't know. Dream or waking? I don't know. How much farther? I don't know. But are you there? Yes. That... I know.