Beyond the Passage of Embers Songtext
von Kardashev

Take me home
Flame on the floor
Tell them that I′m home
Light on the door
Dancing shadows of me
Take me home
Fire

Roof, open wide
Eyes to the stars, the sky
Attic, come down
Rest on the ground
Alight

My empty hand
An eclipse

Need to wake again
I'll never leave


Swallow each thought I am
Oubliette, forget me
Down in the cellar
Dirge sung in embers
To the cracking of dry bones
Rise from these ashen walls!
Our censer!

Washed out with the flame

I will be found in the morning
And no one will know who I am

Mind, rise with the smoke
I′m asking for forgiveness
I'm being selfish again
But what else do I know?
As a curling silhouette
I can finally let go
I can finally let go


I have made my return
To the place of my earliest memory
The consequences of my absence are clear
This place I once called home has gone from me
Were it not for my existence
And the remnants of my frail memory
This tired world of mine would be lost
Though
Everything is different
The animals don't come here anymore
The ground has moved
And the arms of the earth have fallen
The windows peering through the overgrowth
Seem to face a different direction now
Even the cicadas sound different
I cannot fathom how
But everything has changed
This is not my home