Big World

Opening Verse

Small piece of dust.

That's us.

And look at the size of this place.

Life on one side,

death on the other,

and a whole lot in between

that we haven't got a name for.

We keep looking further,

building something to get a better view.

Then we find another thing

we didn't know we didn't know.

Instrumental

Verse 2

There's a boundary to this bubble.

I can't tell you where it starts.

Can't get out from the inside,

can't get in from where you are.

And I keep coming back to that—

how can something feel so open

when there's nowhere else to go?

Rhythmic Break

Verse 3

DNA.

Three letters.

And somehow,

there's an entire person in there.

The shape of a face,

the way a mind works,

things passed down

without anybody asking.

And there's no second copy.

Not exactly.

Try to make another you.

Go on.

Instrumental Shift

Refrain

We can think.

We can build.

We can figure things out.

So why—

with all of that—

Why are we so afraid

of what hasn't happened?

Verse 4

I can sit here for an hour

thinking ten years down the road.

Make a list of what could happen,

then another,

then another.

And not one of those things

has happened yet.

That's the part I can't explain.

Instrumental

Final Section

There's a day it all begins.

There's a day it all ends.

And somewhere in the middle,

we're given a mind

that can do unbelievable things.

We spend so much of it

trying to get ahead of time.

But time doesn't wait

for us to catch up.

Life begins in dust.

And returns to dust.

Full-Band Instrumental – Sudden Rhythmic Cut