Curtains Lyrics - Vintersorg

The curtains never fall - they only rise 

At the cosmic theatre 

standing ovations came at the 15 billion-mark" 

Blurs and vague impressions aside - 

the engineer, the director 

had the galaxies disposed, and then exposed 

for the explorers who never took an answer for an answer 

A matter of time - not space 

How far linearity has permitted us to see 

Outwards means backwards in a universe so vast 

Stretched in time, see it commence 

- a set of celestial fragments 

at immeasurable expanses 

How far a flicker can force itself 

Through dimness, through fields of emission 

The shine slowly turning red 

A burgundy sense of distance 

An overturned curtain call 

- the velvety draperies eternally rising 

into infinite blurs of timelessness 

for an audience correctly dressed in 

extravagant suits of flaming curiosity 

The witnesses and surveyors of celestial enchantment 

Hunted by distance and time 

The curtain reluctantly withdraws 

A prelude to the swirling drama: 

creation - formation - design 

or deduction - destruction - collapse 

- all depending on the angle