[Intro: distant female choir, clean guitar, low cello, soft wind] Before the fire Before the dawn Before the first horizon burned There was silver There was silence And the moon was here first [Verse 1: low, intimate clean vocal] I was told the sun would name me That its fire would make me whole That the daylight in my bloodline Was the oldest thing I’d know But I remember something colder Older than the morning star A pale hand across the heavens Watching quietly from afar Vaelune never asked for worship Never begged the world to kneel She just pulled the tides through darkness And taught sleeping things to feel [Pre-Chorus: subtle choir rising] Before the heavens learned their colors Before gold divided night There was silver on the water There was her There was light [Chorus: soaring, haunting melodic] THE MOON WAS HERE FIRST Before the sun learned how to burn Before the world looked up for answers Before the seasons learned to turn She was written in the oceans She was carved into the dirt And every flame I carry now Still remembers what came first THE MOON WAS HERE FIRST And I was hers before the fire [Verse 2: delicate drums enter] She taught me darkness isn’t empty It is where the quiet lives Where the wounded hide their breathing Where the world forgets to give She taught me light can whisper It doesn’t always have to blaze Sometimes all it takes is silver To make a path through endless grey And I remember lying beneath her Before I ever wore a crown No god No title No burning name Just a child Looking up [Pre-Chorus 2] I learned the sun from hunger I learned the moon from home One taught me how to rise The other taught me How to be alone [Chorus] THE MOON WAS HERE FIRST Before the sun learned how to burn Before the world looked up for answers Before the seasons learned to turn She was written in the oceans She was carved into the dirt And every flame I carry now Still remembers what came first THE MOON WAS HERE FIRST And I was hers before the fire [Instrumental Interlude: clean guitar lead, cello, distant wordless female vocal] [Bridge: near-whispered clean vocal] Mother Do you remember me Before they called me god? Before they gave me sunlight Before they turned my name into a song? Do you remember the wolf Who slept beneath your shadow? Before the world decided What I was supposed to be? [Female vocal, distant and ethereal] I remember [Long pause] [Verse 3: restrained, emotional] Sometimes I stand beneath the daylight And feel every eye below They see fire They see judgment They see everything I’ve grown But when your silver reaches through me All the crowns fall from my head And for one quiet breath I’m nobody again No temple No throne No prophecy Just your son Under the same old moon [Final Chorus: huge but beautiful, choir and orchestra] THE MOON WAS HERE FIRST Before the sun learned how to burn Before gods divided heaven Before names could be returned She was written in the oceans She was waiting in the dark And when Solvar gave the world its flame SHE HAD ALREADY LIT THE STARS The moon was here first And when my final sunlight dies If there is anything beyond me Let hers be the last light In my eyes [Outro: instruments fade to cello and female choir] [Low clean vocal] They call me God of the Sun But that was never Where I began [Soft female vocal] Come home [Whisper] I know the way.
