Do you ever look across the world when you're standing on a beach
And wonder at the world beyond the farthest your eyes can reach
Uncounted people who may live lives so much like your own
To dream to be as much among them there as you are here alone
So I once reached across that void to live under the skies
And in reward I found a lady marked with sun-lit eyes
We live one life between us together every day
With common hopes and destiny and every word we say
Carries some unspoken message as the dark truth becomes known
That whatever time I spend with her in her golden eyes she's alone
The cold sea rose up aft abeam and the shore we left behind
Was already forgotten in our lee, the only thing on our mind
Was the end of our near done task with two things left to do
Five wonders we'd already found and that left only two
We followed the sun to where it wakes and the stars to where they rise
Too far from shore to know where we were under the spinning skies
Until one day as the sun arose it pulled a shadow from the sea
Which became a green wooded island, we anchored in its lee
There were signs of people here though we never saw a soul
Trees grew in the streets and vines had swallowed the city whole
A forest canopy covered the island like a cathedral dome
But only the forest creatures lived to call the city home
We wandered through the ruins to the largest building we could find
And found a door beneath where the jungle plants entwined
We crawled inside and lit a lamp and gazed at that great hall
Boxes were piled on tables and there was barely room to crawl
Every room was filled with shelves and every shelf was stacked
With books and scrolls and charts recording fiction and fact
This they call the library, the ancient house of knowledge
Where once the greatest minds assembled in their ancient college
We were ordered to disassemble this house from its ground
So we climbed up to its roof and began to tear it down
We pulled the tiles from rafters and we numbered every one
And then took down the rafters but before we were done
A message came that the ship was full and the captain's own command
Was to stop our work and leave the walls and floors to stand
We returned to the ship and set our sails that very night
Southward and close hauled we sailed, the island dropped from sight
We left the ancient house of knowledge open to the stars
To let them look down on their book bound avatars
And though those scrolls had lived for ages within their walls
They gazed in their wisdom for the first time to an eternal ceiling hall
