Lyrics that appear between // and // are not sung on the album but are integral to the story

The Archivist:

Rivet shudder

The wheeze and splutter

The well of earth

Drags us ever closer

The roar of rocket fire

The leaden heave of gravity

I feel a cry is silenced by

The look of hope in you

Halted sea of cusped ice

And canopy of forests might

And in stark contrast

A turmoil of desert sand

And amidst this tableau

The scattering of living bodies

Of a tribе drawn to violent ends

My presеnce is a portent

We settle on the divined line

A cleaved land, its people riven

I disembark my sanctuary

With you beside me, gemini

Construct:

Her people throng

Curious and brave

To greet this child

Of spent epochs

They approach with caution

Faces marked with

Chalk and charcoal

A painted grimace

Hides a kindness

Offered with extended hands

I hear the confluence of converging paths

It’s meaningful!

Fates assurance

Times epitaph

Serendipity

In voices heed

For I see her past

Laid out before me

Astronomical

In brass orrery

Kepler’s idioms

Trenches blind piety

Her fathers love

To see her live

Aboard my body

Enshrined in

To give of

His life for her

To burn up with the whole world

From green heart beckons

Harmonising with her chord

Below forests quake

For the coming of my child

The fires long quenched

Rudiments of song

Lift resonant

The reed vibrato of a choral throng

Laughter, prayer

And lov’ed joy

//Their gentle clasp with mine

And together we are lead

To warm envelop

Songs of hearty contentment//

All is forgiven, countless moments chronicled

All is forgiven, of lost fortunes and grave missteps

All is forgiven, as we traverse

All is forgiven, amongst your living memory

All is forgiven my archivist