Souls Adrift in Silence

Eight billion, nine hundred fifty-seven million souls

Loosened from bone after the rupture Released as matter into light

(ahhhh) They showed their faces in the final disclosure The sky opened

without a crown

No border held a name together No house remembered its own sound

We rose from hunger,

fear, and fever

Free from the wound,

free from the chain But freedom had no road beneath it Only

the ache of endless plain

Only souls, only souls No one left to carry home Only souls,

only souls All as one,

and still alone (ahhhh)

No countries turning on their borders No presidents to bless the ash

No mother calling from the doorway No father lifting broken glass No

neighbour, forest, road, or harbor No sea to kneel before the moon

We had no pain left to be ended And still the cellos

carried ruin

Where is the point when there is no direction Where is the

hand when no body remains Who do we love when the names

are dissolved Who will be kind when no one is in pain

Only souls, only souls All as one,

and still alone

Not even nothing held us gently Not even silence had a shore

We were the many made into one And one could not remember

more (ahhhh)

Only souls, only souls

No mother, no father,

no sea

Only souls, only souls

Free from suffering, emptied of need

Only souls, only souls No one to care for,

all are one (ahhhh)

Released as matter into light Floating beyond every name Only souls Only

souls (hummmm)