Beyond the Sun

The engines hum a steady note we've never heard before Our heading is to somewhere that has never known a shore We're burning every anchor, we're uncharted and unborn We cross the event horizon Beyond the dying sun We said the words but meaning left us somewhere in the haze The final handshake lingered in the artificial days The blame has lost its gravity, it's floating far away There's only us and vacuum and the choice we didn't make The engines hum a steady note we've never heard before Our heading is to somewhere that has never known a shore We're burning every anchor, we're uncharted and unborn We cross the event horizon Beyond the dying sun A target on a star map, a hypothesis of light Perhaps they'll send a welcome, not a challenge or a fight The data streams are silent, just the void against the glass A billion empty questions that we carried from the past And will the constellations look familiar from afar? Or rearrange to patterns that we cannot even parse? Will "home" become a theory in a new and foreign dark? A memory of breathing as we step into the arc The engines hum a steady note we've never heard before Our heading is to somewhere that has never known a shore We're burning every anchor, we're uncharted and unborn We cross the event horizon Beyond the dying sun Beyond the sun... The course is locked, the die is cast The future is a silhouette against the cosmic past We cross the line... we cross the line... ...into the vast