The void

[Verse 1] The engines hum a lullaby of steel and flame We left behind the sunlight and the sound of names The void is not an empty thing, it breathes and pulls A billion silent sentries watch from crystal pools The stardust settles softly on the window pane A billion miles behind us and a billion yet to gain [Chorus] We are the signal flying through the endless night A whisper carved in radio, a flicker of the light Through stellar storms and gravity that tears the sky We carry home inside our bones until we die Until we die [Verse 2] A black hole opened like a mouth without a face It swallowed half our compass and the lines of space We bent around its hunger, held our breath and prayed To gods of physics, gods of luck, and gods we never made The silence afterward was louder than the roar A graveyard of the light that we had known before [Chorus] We are the signal flying through the endless night A whisper carved in radio, a flicker of the light Through stellar storms and gravity that tears the sky We carry home inside our bones until we die Until we die [Bridge] Then came the violet signal from a world of glass A language made of pulses, questions meant to pass They asked us what we're running from and what we hope to find We answered with a photograph of Earth left far behind They touched the screen with tendrils, wept a silver rain And taught us how to fold the dark and ride the cosmic lane [Chorus] We are the signal flying through the endless night A whisper carved in radio, a flicker of the light Through stellar storms and gravity that tears the sky We carry home inside our bones until we die Until we die [Outro] The void is not an empty thing, it sings our name A signal born of dust and hope, a never-ending flame We drift across the galaxies, a thread of fragile grace Until the stars grow quiet and the silence finds its place Until the silence finds its place