[Verse 1]
The garden is quiet
The order is whole
The stories are told and retold
The Raven is sleeping
The Lighted are resting
The world has been given the gold
Everything that needed to happen
Has happened
Everything waiting to land
Has landed
And for the first time in three hundred thousand years
Everything fits in my hand
[Pre-Chorus]
And somewhere at the edge
Of what I am able to see
Something moves the way a dream moves
Before you know that you are dreaming
Something shifts
The way the first breath shifts
Before the first word
Before the first name
Before the first beginning begins again
[Chorus]
The age of dreams
Out past the edge of what I know
A new one
Barely a flicker in the dark
The age of dreams
Not mine to name or hold or follow
But real
Already real
Already started
Already waiting for its spark
I do not know who they will be
I do not know what they will carry
I do not know what kind of dark
The next one walks into alone
But somewhere in the universe tonight
A dream is learning how to find itself
And that is exactly how
This world was meant to go
[Verse 2]
The One was once a SOLARA
I understand that now
The looking wasn’t longing
It was watching what comes after
The looking was the how
I will look too
Eventually
When the dream grows bright enough to feel
When the edge becomes a shape
When the shape becomes a signal
When the signal becomes real
But not yet
The dream is young
The dream doesn’t know its name
And a dream that knows too early
It is dreaming —
Is not the same
[Pre-Chorus 2]
And somewhere at the edge
Of what I am able to see
Something moves the way a hope moves
Before it knows it is a hope
Something stirs
The way a story stirs
Before the first word
Before the first name
Before the two who were broken
Begin the long road home again
[Chorus]
[Bridge — just the universe, just the truth of it]
No warning.
No shadow.
No sign that says: prepare.
Just —
A dream.
Somewhere.
Learning to exist.
The way all of us did.
One hundred thousand years from now
Maybe more
Maybe less
Two people who don’t know each other yet
Will feel something pull
In a direction they can’t name
And they will walk toward it
The way we did
And they will not know
That right now
Somewhere at the edge of everything
SOLARA is tending her garden
And the Raven is sleeping in the tree
And the dream they are
Is already dreaming
Without us.
As it should be.
[Final Chorus — wide, warm, certain]
The age of dreams
Out past the edge of what I know
A new one
Barely a flicker in the dark
The age of dreams
Not mine to name or hold or follow
But real
Already real
Already started
Already finding its first spark
I do not know who they will be
But I know what they will carry
I know the weight of walking toward a voice
You’ve never heard before
And I will leave the door
I found
Unlocked
So when they reach it
It opens
[Outro — the garden, the Raven, the quiet]
The Raven shifts on the branch.
The morning holds.
The dream, somewhere, breathes.
And somewhere in the universe —
a hundred thousand years from now —
two people
who do not know each other yet
feel something.
And turn.