Coamhim - On the Futility of the Heavenward Gaze Lyrics

There's a star there
In the sky there
That convicts me
Of the size
Of this life here
Makes it so clear
To these fragile
Little eyes
That I'll forever
Be never
More than a
Speck of dust
To a massive
Stellar being
So much bigger
Than all of us

I hear a sound there
Way down there
Crying out in
The mortal night
The singing
Of a human being
Who's enchanted
By my light
But if he only knew
Just as I do
That I would gladly
Take his place
For alas this
Stellar mass is
Eternally condemned to space

We hear a sound
All around
Crying out in
The dark matter

(If only
I could trade with that beautiful being)

A wrenching
Lamenting
That makes our photons scatter

(I'd forget
All of the meaningless things I've seen)

Manifesting
Giving meaning
To this thing that
We've always known

(Why is it up there
If I can never go?)

Revealing
This feeling
That we're destined to be alone

(Why is it up there
If I can never know)

(Forever)
(Forever)
(Forever)
(Forever)
(Forever)
(Forever)
(Forever)
(Forever)

Since the beginning of time
Man has pondered the skies
The heavens listening long
To his isolated cries
The echo of emptiness
Ringing out through the black
Searching for an answer
That the stars can never send back
We have watched and waited
As this legacy unveils
Skewed explanations
Constellations and tales
But the truth is much darker
Than a man could ever grasp
We pity your race
From behind our mask
Nothing is the treasure that the Universe hides
Nothing but scattered matter that careens and collides
As it craves for the death
That epitomizes rest
At the mercy of forces
Haunting with their behest
But how can a thing
Made of atoms and chance
Ever tell a man the truth
Of his nihilistic dance
So we watch our sentient
Gazing up in his plight
As he studies our tears
Made of silence and light

Why is it up there
If I can never know