Orion's Belt Lyrics

A hunter has his weapons and the sharpest one is time

Waiting long as patience will allow

Orion set out thinking he would fell each living soul

Until the scorpion came to take his toll

A lighted pattern framing one who died

The fallen and his killer side by side

When at last the glistening gemstones of Orion's Belt fade

And the sun's tremendous heart finally eclipses into shade

When the deepest of the molten rock is cooled against the sky

And the bravest waterfalls are ever quiet

Will the first time that you said the words still echo far away?

Will the breath with which you spoke them now traverse the Milky Way?

Will the energy that I could not contain with that first knock upon your door

Survive impermanence forevermore?

It seems so clear to me that something's changed

An atom that began to spin, propelled by how it felt to say your name

Each one of us a mystery that the other longs to know

A path inside a labyrinth we designed

A sun that's always setting lays its amber on the gray

But I've been told that nothing gold can stay

When at last the glistening gemstones of Orion's Belt fade

And the sun's tremendous heart finally eclipses into shade

When the deepest of the molten rock is cooled against the sky

And the bravest waterfalls are ever quiet

Will the first time that you said the words still echo far away?

Will the breath with which you spoke them now traverse the Milky Way?

Will the energy that I could not contain with that first knock upon your door

Survive impermanence forevermore?

It seems so clear to me that something's changed

An atom that began to spin, propelled by how it felt to say your name

When at last the theater screen goes black and the film reel is wound back

I suppose the part we played was pretty small

Uncredited and missing from the final curtain call

But it was pretty cool we got to stand beneath Orion's Belt at all