[Intro — grand, cosmic, then immediately deflated by one yawn]
[Verse 1]
The seraphim convened
At the hour designated for the meeting
Initium Finis had not attended in four hundred thousand years
They convened anyway (they always convene anyway)
The first seraphim said: something moved
The second said: in the furthest expanse
The third said: it was not written
All of them said: the higher states are asking
(Asala sent a formal report)
(Golo arrived personally)(at the boundary of this fold)
(Golo never arrives personally)(never)
(and Helena)(Helena is last)(Helena being last is never good)
[Pre-Chorus]
They sent a delegate to his room
The delegate knocked (silence)
The delegate knocked again (longer silence)
Initium Finis was in his chair
Looking at the ceiling
With the expression of someone who had been there approximately forever
He said: Mm
[Chorus]
Something moved that wasn’t written
Something stirred the furthest dark
The Book is open, nothing’s in it
For the light that’s left its mark
Every fold is watching, waiting
Asala, Golo, Helena call —
Something moved that wasn’t written
And it changed the course of all
[Verse 2]
The delegate read the full report
(forty-seven pages)(single spaced)(the higher states are thorough)
A captain has passed a level she was not written to pass
A dead man carries knowledge that does not belong to the living
And nobody wrote him back to life that we can find
The delegate said: did you have anything to do with this
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Initium looked at the delegate
The delegate waited
Initium said: define “anything”
(that is not a no)(I will write “inconclusive”)
(he will probably yawn)
He yawned (yes)
[Bridge — youngest seraphim, quiet]
The youngest seraphim set down her pen
She said very quietly: do you think she makes it
The room went still
Initium did not yawn (for the first time)(in a very long time)
He looked at the ceiling
He said: that is why I am watching
(write it down)(I already did)
[Final Chorus]
Something moved that wasn’t written
Something stirred the furthest dark
The Book is open, nothing’s in it
For the light that’s left its mark
Every fold is watching, waiting
Asala, Golo, Helena call —
Something moved that wasn’t written
And it moved because it was time
[Outro]
The delegate said: what should I tell the higher states
Initium said: tell them The Book has a new chapter
(and then he went back to the ceiling)
(Golo knocked from outside)
(the delegate did not open the door)
(some things you just have to let stand)