The Wilderness Lyrics

In the wilderness

You shout

In a million different directions

Nothing speaks back

Not within all of infinity

No-one is ever coming

Not in any time frame within the bounds of eternity

Yours is a lonely road

Yours isn't even a road

It's a riddle, unsolvable

No one knows you

In person or in passing

You are a passing wind barely detectable

You are a fading picture that still imagines itself visible

You are what was erased before anything was written

The dust on the chalkboard

Now a million scattered particles

Floating about a deserted classroom

Even the floor will not have you

Nor acknowledge you

You are nothing to everything around you

You are something forgotten that was never known

Everything discarded that was never made

You are the paradox of space and time

For you have no place

And thus no story

No face

And thus no memory

You are a sound that sunk into the ground

A tremor unnoticed

A glimmer of a glimmer

A glimpse of what was almost an idea

A word at the tip of a tongue that never quite got sung

The murderer they never hung

Forgettable at your most formidable

Passable at your most exceptional

You are nothing to everything around you

You are nothing to everything around you

Until you find the one thing that IS

Everything in itself

And nothing else

You

It

All of what will speak back

You are everything you have been waiting for at the fort

Every demon you discovered and fought

You yourself are the riddle you sought to solve

Or salvage.

You are all you will ever know or be known by

Because you are all there is

You are the man and the mirror

You are the word that first was

All the way to before God

Or Godot

Or waiting

For kingdom come

No king will come

That is not already here

The king, himself the kingdom

You, yourself, The Wilderness

And the tree

And the crash

And the sound

And the Ear