[Opening Declaration]

I died out loud

Then I died again

Not as a body

Not as a name

Not as a mouth

Not as a hand

Not as the animal

That thought it could stand

[Dissolution]

I came apart

In heat

In flash

In memory ash

In carbon

In pressure

In signal collapse

No coffin

No garden

No stone

No prayer

Just energy loosening

Into the air

[Former Self]

I was simple once

Soft once

Breathing once

Brief once

Now I am scattered

Now I am clean

Now I am nothing

But what I have been

[Waiting State]

Sleeping

Not forever

Waiting

Not gone

Cold in the silence

Dark before dawn

I do not dream

I do not decay

I do not want

I do not pray

I wait for weight

I wait for pull

I wait for the centеr

To become full

[Refrain 1]

In the silеnce

In the cold

In the dark

Lying in wait

In the absence

In the fold

In the void

Lying in wait

[Gravity Gathering]

Dust finds dust

Stone finds stone

Mass finds mass

Bone leaves bone

Eon by eon

Grain by grain

Gravity gathers

What used to be pain

More and more

Slow and deep

The dead do not vanish

The dead only sleep

[Negative Litany]

Not eternal

Not erased

Not forgiven

Not replaced

Held in the dark

Without a face

Held in the cold

Without a place

[Transformation]

I was a pulse

Now I am fuel

I was a life

Now I am rule

I was a hunger

I was a wound

Now I am waiting

Inside the womb

[Collapse Chant]

Of collapse

Of return

Of pressure

Of burn

Of matter

Of spark

Of density

Dark

[Summoning]

I will be called

When the center is ready

I will be drawn

When the silence is heavy

I will not rise

As I was before

I will not crawl

On the animal floor

[Becoming]

I will become

What the weight requires

Seed of a star

Blood of its fire

Maybe a sun

Maybe a sea

Maybe a world

That remembers me

Maybe a storm

Maybe a wing

Maybe the mouth

Of a living thing

[Delay Mantra]

But not yet

Not yet

Not yet

Not yet

All that's left

Is the wait

[Gravity Mantra]

Gravity collecting

Gravity collecting

Gravity collecting

[Cycle Law]

Slow as forever

Sure as the grave

Nothing is wasted

Nothing is saved

Everything circles

Everything bends

Everything dead

Becomes again

[Final Refrain]

In the silence

In the cold

In the dark

Lying in wait

Not eternal

Not asleep

Not alive

Not awake

Only gathered

Only held

Only waiting

To be made

[Outro]

All that's left

Is the wait