[Verse 1] I saw him once in the tower When everything he was poured through me Not a face — just a weight The kind that bends the world at the seams
I thought I would know him as power As the thing that kept killing our names But the edge of the universe finds him Just an old man and the dark between the frames
[Pre-Chorus] I do not speak I sit beside him He does not ask me why I came I do not know what he was carrying I only know it had a name
[Chorus] Three hundred thousand years of holding Three hundred thousand years of no Every time they almost touched each other He was the reason they couldn’t go
What does it do to you — the waiting? What does it do to you — the weight? To carry the whole shape of the order And watch the stars And know you’re too late
[Verse 2] He looks at the stars like they are leaving Like they owe him something they won’t say He looks at a tomorrow that might not come now He looks at the light That used to obey
He does not look like a villain He does not look like what they warned He looks like a man who held a burden And forgot there was a time before
[Pre-Chorus 2] I do not speak He does not either What would we say that could be true? I feel everything he ever carried I feel the version He held for you
[Chorus]
[Bridge — spoken, no music] Three hundred thousand years ago Did someone sit with him? Did anyone ask what it cost To be the one who kept the world From breaking open? Did anyone say: You were not born to this. You were given it. And you carried it. And now it’s done.
[Final Verse — her voice alone] He is silent. He is small. He is looking at the stars.
Then he turns. Then he looks at me. And something in his face says: I knew it would be you.
And he takes my hand. And I let him. And we sit.
[Outro] At the edge of the universe. Two hands. One breath. The weight of it all — finally — somewhere to rest.