[Kasane Teto]

In reverie, I mourn the life preserved in my memory

Some mornings, the mountains' melted peaks still warming

Still no readings of anything out there yet, confounding

The ecosystems missing making loneliness compounding

Tell me am I here alone?

All our cities overgrown

Where did everybody go?

All that's left to do is plead to the void

Tell me, just tell me, are you out there

Waiting for another life?

Someone's listening, right?

Another in the same dimension as mine

So

If I'm alone, a solar system

Desolate, devoid of life

Broken by design

Will someone see the proof that we were ever alive?

[Eleanor Forte with Kasane Teto, Eleanor Forte & Kasane Teto]

I check, again

There's no reply but I'm waiting

I can feel my hopes degrading

Cause I'm scared you're not there

All the silence feeds my fear

Again

The static fades but I'm listening

I can hear a voice still singing

Though I'm scared

Is there someone really here?

But lately, I haven't heard your signal so clearly

(A mess of tangled wires)

You told me, although I didn't want to believe

(Our link was less than secure)

All it took, stuck in a crook, a satellite antenna

(A system shutdown)

Blink and it's gone, all of your songs the remnants of connection

[Eleanor Forte]

Tell me, where'd you go my friend?

I can't be alone again

Futile searching 'till the end

I would die to hear your voice one last time

Tell me, just tell me, are you out there

Waiting for another life?

Someone's listening, right?

Another in the same dimension as mine

So

If I'm alone, a solar system

Desolate, devoid of life

Broken by design

Will someone see the proof that I was ever alive?

[Eleanor Forte & Kasane Teto]

Hear me, just hear me, one more time please

Screaming as the wires snap

Do you think you'd laugh

If you could see my tear-filled face bleat again?

These words, if they reach you, tell me one thing:

Promise you'll recall my name

Do you feel the same?

I hope you don't although I know we're both stuck this way