Nexus Lyrics - Fogelberg Dan

(Disk 1 of 2) 

Across the vein of night 

There cuts a path of searing light 

Burning like a beacon 

On the edges of our sight 

At the point of total darkness 

And the lights divine divide 

A soul can let its shadow stretch 

And land on either side -- 

either side. 

And balanced on the precipice 

The moment must reveal 

Naked in the face of time 

Our race within the wheel 

As we hang beneath the heavens 

And we hover over hell 

Our hearts become the instruments 

We learn to play so well. 

Wealthy the spirit that knows its 

own flight 

Stealthy the hunter who slays 

his own fright 

Blessed the traveler who journeys 

the length of the light. 

Outside the pull of gravity 

Beyond the spectral veil 

Within our careful reasoning 

We search to no avail 

For the constant in the chaos 

For the fulcrum in the void 

Following a destiny 

Our steps cannot avoid. 

Across the vein of night 

There cuts a path of searing light 

Burning like a beacon 

On the edges of our sight 

At the point of total darkness 

And the lights divine divide 

A soul can let its shadow 

Stretch and land on either side. 

Wealthy the spirit that knows its 

own flight 

Stealthy the hunter who slays 

his own fright 

Blessed the traveler who journeys 

the length of the light. 

In a spiral never-ending 

Are we drawn towards the source 

Spinning at the mercy of an 

unrelenting force 

So we stare into the emptiness 

and fall beneath the weight 

Circling the Nexus in a 

fevered dance with fate -- 

Wealthy the spirit that knows its 

own flight 

Stealthy the hunter who slays 

his own fright 

Blessed the traveler who journeys 

the length of the light.