Earthrise from Earthrise EP by innerspace

The contours of these bodies faint against the black,
the only bearing that I have to lead me back is
a breathing star, the shadows cast by all her transits.
I’ll map the dots, the choreography, the dance of the planets.

Suddenly I feel her pull and I can’t fight it
as I spiral inward through a cloud of comets,
I just close my eyes. The music of the spheres begins to fill the vacuum
and I start to lose my breath as I reach out for you. My strength is fading.

There’s a shield around the world, it protects us from the rays that come hailing from the sun and when it glows, we call it day and I take watching shooting stars over all the wonders that I’ve seen because that invisible shield is the only thing that we can breathe.
So breathe while you can. It’s out of your hands.

The brief eternity spanning between each world grows ever shorter now,
as I fall deeper down across the universe.
And under Jupiter, a spinning asteroid gate to realms of solid rock and liquid water drops, the kind that fill my veins.

Falling away, back to the only home that I’ve ever known.
Into the day, how can I be the same, knowing what I know?
Magnetic eyes that burn like quasars bore into mine like pulsing lasers
and I’m free. I finally see the earthrise.

Shockwaves ripple through my bones. I may never make it through,
but something that I can’t control keeps me falling in toward you.
Gradually, these black skies fade into blue.
I can almost reach out and touch you.
Will you catch me when I come burning through the air we breathe?

There’s a shield around the world, it transmits the brightest rays raining from our little sun to stir up the wind and waves and I dream of shooting stars because maybe not so coincidentally, that thin, ephemeral blue shield is the only thing in the universe that we can breathe.

• Alternative
• Progessive
• experimental rock
• post-hardcore
• rock
• space rock
• Colorado