Lighthouses in the Sea of Stars

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Verse 1 I left the harbor in the half-light With a compass and a borrowed dream The water opened like a question Too wide for me to read The town grew small behind my shoulder The hills dissolved in blue And everything I thought I knew Began to loosen too The waves kept writing and erasing Names I almost understood Like the world was trying to tell me That I was smaller than I should As if the sky already knew How much I had to learn Pre-Chorus So I sailed on Past the edges of what I knew Chorus And the sea rose up like a choir And the wind moved through the lines Every mile I thought was mine alone Was carried by a thousand lives And the stars sang Keep moving Keep moving There is more than you have seen So I lifted up my lantern Toward the far side of the sea Verse 2 There were days that felt like decades There were years that passed like rain There were places I thought would save me That only taught me pain I found whole worlds inside moments I almost hurried past Some strangers turned to lighthouses Long after they were gone Their words kept burning in the dark When I could not go on And there were nights I thought the silence Had finally learned my name But somewhere past the empty water Hope kept calling all the same Pre-Chorus So I sailed on Past the edges of who I’d been Chorus And the sea rose up like a choir And the wind moved through the lines Every mile I thought was mine alone Was carried by a thousand lives And the stars sang Keep moving Keep moving There is more than you have seen So I lifted up my lantern Toward the far side of the sea Post-Chorus The lights ahead The lights ahead Still burning where the sky meets dream The lights ahead The lights ahead Still calling from beyond the seen Verse 3 I learned some questions have no answer Except the passing years And some doors only open slowly To hands still wet with tears I learned the storm is not the ending Though it comes dressed like the grave And some of what I called destruction Was the water making way I watched old versions of myself Disappear into the wake One by one becoming stories I no longer had to hate And somewhere under foreign stars With no shore left to blame I stopped asking where I was going And started asking what remained Bridge Maybe no one writes his story With his own hand alone Maybe every soul is built From mercies mostly unknown Maybe every distant beacon Every star and every guide Is another weary traveler Leaving fire for the night Maybe strength is not a fortress Maybe wisdom is to see How much of what we call our journey Was first given quietly Are threads inside a greater mercy Too vast to hold in mind And I heard it in the ocean And I heard it in the sky Like a choir made of generations Singing from the other side Choir Build Beyond the storm Beyond the foam Beyond the dark Beyond the known Beyond the years Beyond the fear The signal grows The signal’s here Beyond the stars Beyond the sea There is more Than we can see Final Chorus And the sea rose up like a choir And the stars fell into line Like a million burning lanterns Hung across the edge of time And the wind sang Keep moving Keep moving There is more than you have seen And every loss and every wonder Had been leading me here So I lifted up my lantern Toward the far side of the sea Final Verse Then one evening after years Of weather, wonder, loss, and sky I saw the harbor I had left Rise quietly before my eyes The same old lighthouse kept its watch The same hills held the fading light The same bell rang across the water The same stars opened the night And for a moment nothing changed No trumpet, crown, or victory Just gulls above the quiet docks And salt air coming back to me But every street felt deeper now Every window held a flame The harbor knew my name at once But I did not answer the same Because I carried distant oceans In places no one else could see And every horizon I had followed Was still alive inside of me I had gone around the whole world Only to finally understand The harbor was the same But I was not Outro The sea still stretched beyond the harbor The stars still burned beyond the night The wind still carried distant voices Calling softly out of sight And somewhere another lantern Was rising in the dark Another soul was leaving shore With thunder in his heart The voyage brought me home But not to where I started And as the tide rolled outward I smiled And listened To the sea