Steven Wilson
The Overview
[Part 1: Perspective]
[Verse 1]
Size beyond one megametre
Ten to the power of six
Ganymede, Callisto
Wolf 359
Size beyond one gigametre
Ten to the power of nine
Sirius, Altair
Vega, Polaris
Size beyond one terametre
Ten to the power of twelve
Antares, Pistol Star
Betelgeuse
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
Size beyond one petametre
Ten to the power of fifteen
Stringray Nebula, Ring Nebula
Helix Nebula, The Spire
Hourglass Nebula
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 3]
Size beyond one exametre
Ten to the power of eighteen
Omega Centurai, Messier 54
Tarantula Nebula
Size beyond one zettametre
Ten to the power of twenty-one
Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy
Fornax Cluster
Size beyond one yottametre
Ten to the power of twenty-four
Virgo Super Cluster, Eridanus Supervoid
Super Cluster Complex
[Part 2: A Beautiful Infinity/Borrowed Atoms]
[Verse 1]
Snow is falling but it can't be seen from here
And back on Earth, my loving wife's been dead for years
I see myself in relation to it all
What seemed important now like dust inside the squall
Each moment for me is a lifetime for you
[Instrumental Break]
[Verse 2]
The clouds have no history
And the sea feels no sorrow
The oxygen recycled
And the atoms are just borrowed
The paleness and fragility
Of this I call a home
[Chorus]
I'm already gone
Is there self?
Is this real? Is this a dream?
There's no reason for anything
Just a beautiful infinity (Ooh)
No design and no one at the wheel
Just an existential mystery
La-la-la-la-la, la-la, la-la
[Outro]
The light that radiates from here can shame the sun
But in a billion years, its journey's just begun
(Begun, do-do-do-do)
[Part 3: Infinity Measured in Moments]
[Verse: Rotem Wilson]
Size beyond one megametre
Ten to the power of six
Ganymede, Callisto
Wolf 359
Size beyond one gigametre
Ten to the power of nine
Sirius, Altair
Vega, Polaris
Size beyond one terametre
Ten to the power of twelve
Antares, Pistol Star
Betelgeuse
[Chorus: Steven Wilson]
From the air, from the dust
From the sea, and from the blood
In a capsule for the billions of years
Preserved
All we were, all destroyed
Drifting on through the void
As all permanence of matter disappears
Taken
From the air, from the dust
From the sea, and from the blood
In a capsule for the billions of years
Preserved
All we were, all destroyed
Drifting on through the void
As all permanence of matter disappears
[Instrumental Break]
[Outro: Rotem Wilson]
Size beyond one exametre
Ten to the power of eighteen
Omega Centurai, Messier 54
Tarantula Nebula
Size beyond one zettametre
Ten to the power of twenty-one
Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy
Fornax Cluster
Size beyond one yottametre
Ten to the power of twenty-four
Virgo Super Cluster, Eridanus Supervoid
Super Cluster Complex
[Part 4: Permanence]
[Instrumental]