Capsule of Echoes

[Intro] Silent hull, cold iron skies A lone beacon in the monastery of stars [Verse 1] I sail the quiet dark, a speck with a map of holes Across the vacuum seas my heart keeps time with fading poles Dust on the cockpit glass, my breath etches frost in galaxies Then a shadow yawns ahead—a ship with no history [Pre-Chorus] In the dark, I hear echoes of a distant choir Whispers of a world that chose oblivion over fire [Chorus] What if the past is a tomb and a door What if we’re the echo of a civilization no more If time’s a capsule buried in cosmic dust I’m reading their life, and I’m reading their goodbye [Verse 2] Derelict limbs cradle old stars as if cradling sleep Symbols pulse like veins—an atlas of promises they couldn’t keep A diary of light, a warning carved in frost and rust They wrote their fate in comets, then turned to dust [Pre-Chorus] I sift through memories welded into their hull A chronology of risk, of arrogance, of lull [Chorus] What if the past is a tomb and a door What if we’re the echo of a civilization no more If time’s a capsule buried in cosmic dust I’m reading their life, and I’m reading their goodbye [Bridge] I press a cold key and a lullaby of engines sighs A countdown of planets, a memory that never dies If hope is a signal lost in the hum of space I’ll carry their message in my waiting space [Chorus] What if the past is a tomb and a door What if we’re the echo of a civilization no more If time’s a capsule buried in cosmic dust I’m reading their life, and I’m reading their goodbye [Outro] The capsule closes softly, a whisper through the void I chart new horizons, but their fate remains a void in employed time I am the keeper of stories that began and never end Until another dawn learns what they chose to mend and mend