KARDASHEV LYRICS

1. Prologue

Uuone andea, ie o euna dzoumal. Oen ueja tuenion ie o cuo insvauna, eeuoma o ciarina. Dazatia, iva ia aujal o dagoe. "Iash veanaa suad ia iash dzuena lojina? Luel iash vunazian." Ie o peloe eeushaien um looriaien, ie euna dej udzo zuin sare uejal. Ithajien, iva ueja paran ie o oloe. Dazatia, suad ta teruzaem ua dzeinoilea jiathia uja ie o cuo dzina. soaoem esh aaithua uueilaujam, um ie painua dej coemaja. Suad aujal ie o aitiva, iva nai zaio ie zeov.

2. Between Sea and Sky

Still night.
Waiting.
Glassy waters.

Navigator!

Astrolabe -
sailing by starlight.

Move the waters! Set the moon!

Come now, wind. Take me to the planet's edge!

Cloud sentinel! Potential of action!
Taunting silver eye dead in the sky!

This sight of endlessness humbles me.

Internal. External.
All that I knew has since drowned in the waves.

Creation. Visualization.
Sinking down into the dark.
Crystalline filigree...
One thousand fathoms...
a lifetime ago!

Move me forward!
Move me foreword now!

Come now, wind. Take me to the planet's edge!

3. Beside Cliffs and Chasms

The view given to me is vast.
Seemingly infinite.
If there is an end, I do not know it.
There is no curve of Earth.
Just the unending axis that crosses the cradle.
Where cardinals are born,
And the last frost of winter makes way
For the first rose to grow.
Hands on the edge of the cliff.
Stone-texture, awake! Great depths of land, whisper!
Here I stand as a stranger,
Yet each crack in the Earth
I have seen here before.
Hear me, fluttering winds. Take back the breaths that I'm made of.

I cannot see more, yet I can see clearly.
All things that I have lost I can now find again.

My language never heard.
My name soon forgotten.
Power above, cradled below -
Flawless in design!
A shadow!
Sun-zealous sky!
Sidling earth!
12389,
Place of my birth!
"Hear me, fluttering winds. Take back the breaths that I'm made of."

I cannot see more, yet I can see clearly.
All things that I have lost I can now find again.

4. Behind Leaves and Vines

I was a pilgrim,
But oh, I was lost!
I looked from the forest, down to a river.
The night...
Silver hands on my hair.
There, in the closed-eye sky,
I saw the clouds part to reveal her.
She drank the moon from the crystal riverbed.
The world was silent.
Cold.
She lifted her head.
Great reverence in distance,
Piercing through branches.
I stood behind the fallen birch.
Snowfall.
I stepped into the light.
Nimble retreat!
What beautiful heartache
in a moment so fleeting!

5. Beneath Dirt and Stone

I was a pilgrim,
But oh, I was lost!
I looked from the forest, down to a river.
The night...
Silver hands on my hair.
There, in the closed-eye sky,
I saw the clouds part to reveal her.
She drank the moon from the crystal riverbed.
The world was silent.
Cold.
She lifted her head.
Great reverence in distance,
Piercing through branches.
I stood behind the fallen birch.
Snowfall.
I stepped into the light.
Nimble retreat!
What beautiful heartache
In a moment so fleeting!

6. Beyond Sun and Moon

Once, long ago,
With eyes eclipsed -
My thousand-fold mind cried
"I have all answers!"
I saw shadow.
Shadow, my law.
O, wavering journey
And infinite circle.
My thoughts swell with the sun
As I enter the room of my birth.
I saw shadow.
Shadow, my law.
Every footstep
Returns to the dirt.
Two clear voices -
"Accelerate replication!"
"Authorization denied!"

Please! Come now, wind!
Bring back what I've lost!
I see shadow!
Shadow, my law!
I'll drink in the stars
And then hunt down the moon!

Swaying light, shine.
Distance, fade away.
Opening door,
O, shrinking sun,
Compress!
A diamond!
Sundering roar,
Opening eyes,
Ignite!
Be still!
What place is this?
Ia raue oun soal.

I stood so still.
Vead cuarne courpaion.

Where have I gone?
Laj o zeov ial andea.

What words are these?
Alunea, dag ua nai.

When I returned, all the seeds had grown without me.
When I returned, all the streams, they flowed without me.
When I returned, all the trees, they fell without me.
When I returned, all life came and went without me.

Alunea.

7. Epilogue

Ueil o duazoe iva tuuen duguo iaj o jietivoe, iveiu auja um soaltuen o evoe taurue. Ua ueil ade iaj, sheur o evoe tegliaj oun aatiav aaimujion, dazatia iaj o veana, ua ia leindau, vealei lurai. Iaj o veana dej dzumal ud dazaiue o fairoe. Zaaiol o suavioe dej. Esh daazaiue, ia uuone uamothia raue o izuan. Iie o euna vo:ia, dazatia iiesh o agiun, undea dzeinau osh undea ta da:azaiue, Iaj o zeov zaaio daazaiuema o suavioe iva u:one, jiu iva iaj iiesh o cuo thiavan. Uonel iaj o duiuan atuona o evoe zaaiuth, daez dazunei vead ta za:iuth jaugoa ud lias ua tuenal o evoe. Meu! Iaj o douna esh liasal. lual o evoe zeoliathia, um iva liasal iaj o vauthana. Duezia Iaj eeushaien o paiuna zeov, uuone doem iaj ia deireon iaj o zeov. Iaj o raithaeo dej. Luei jeruel iaj ejiuma o omoe, um aiv oisteul Iaj o atiana.







KARDASHEV LYRICS