Aether - Into The Aether

AETHER

Verse 1

We watch the mountains rising through the cloud

A second sunrise washes out the glass

Below us lies a continent of storms

Beyond it, something no one here can map

We used to argue over where to go

As though the choice was ours to make

Now every signal coming through the hull

Is someone asking how much more we'll take

Pre-Chorus

And all the worlds we thought we'd find

Were never waiting to be saved

There's someone on the other side

Who knows the price we haven't paid

Chorus

Into the Aether

Out where the daylight ends

We carry a world we remember

Towards one we don't understand

Call through the distance

Tell me there's ground ahead

Somewhere a life can be more

Than the things we're willing to defend

Verse 2

There's washing hanging over broken streets

A child who stops to watch us passing by

Above the square, our engines shake the roofs

Below, a woman will not meet my eyes

They told us we would recognise the threat

They put its likeness up against a wall

But from the window of a falling ship

You cannot see their borders there at all

Pre-Chorus

I've heard the orders coming down

I've watched the people disappear

If this is what we came to build

Then what are we defending here?

Chorus

Into the Aether

Out where the daylight ends

We carry a world we remember

Towards one we don't understand

Call through the distance

Tell me there's ground ahead

Somewhere a life can be more

Than the things we're willing to defend

Bridge

Open the channel

Let everyone hear

There are people below us

We are staying here

Whatever comes after

Whatever they say

They can take my command

I am holding this place

Final Chorus

Into the Aether

Turn us towards the dawn

There's room for the ones we were leaving

There's time if we bring them aboard

Call through the distance

Tell them we're coming through

We carried a world we remembered

Now we have to build something new

Outro

We watch the mountains rising through the cloud

Below us, scattered lights are coming through

For all the things we thought we'd find out here

We never thought we'd find a place to choose