[Verse 1] They trained us where the salt began, Where every road turned white, To read the wind through covered eyes And name the stars at night. Your red thread circled twice around The wrist that steadied mine. You said the world was wider Than the routes they made us sign. Once a year the heat descended, And the distance lost its form. The bells were bound with leather Till the Pale Hour had gone. [Pre-Chorus] No one crossed the boundary stones. No one travelled out alone. [Chorus] When the horizon closed, You stepped beyond the line. The earth became the sky, And your shadow left mine. They searched until the moon rose, But the white gave nothing back. When the horizon closed, You disappeared into the light. [Verse 2] They found three threads at sunrise On the final boundary rail. No broken earth behind them, No wheel, no shoe, no trail. The masters sealed the signal room. The families spoke in blame. Every year the dust returned, And every year I stayed. I learned the sleeping engines. I repaired the warning wire. I watched the younger surveyors Have their futures signed in ink. [Pre-Chorus] They asked me what I thought you knew. I said, “Nothing more Than any of us do.” [Chorus] When the horizon closed, You stepped beyond the line. The earth became the sky, And your shadow left mine. They searched until the moon rose, But the white gave nothing back. When the horizon closed, You disappeared into the light. [Verse 3] Twenty years brought iron rails And workers from the west. They drove a shaft beneath the floor And found the hollow steps. The passage curved below the station, Past the rooms where signals slept, Toward a valley filled with water That no official chart had kept. They brought me to the opening. They asked me who had built the door. I touched the rusted lever I had touched two decades before. [Bridge] You did not follow voices. You were not taken by the plain. No spirit crossed the salt that day. No mystery called your name. You chose a road they had forbidden. I silenced every bell. I tied your threads upon the railing So no one else could tell. [Reveal] You left a fourth thread in my locker And a place beside your name. You thought I would come after When the searchers turned away. But younger hands were waiting To inherit numbered lives. So I remained inside the signal room And kept the passage wide. One by one, beneath the silence, I released them from their roles. Every year the horizon vanished. Every year, Another traveller went home. [Final Chorus] When the horizon closed, We opened up the line. The earth became the sky, And their shadows crossed through mine. Let them search until the moon rose. Let the white conceal the track. When the horizon closed, I sent another future into light. [Outro] Now the railway cuts the basin. Every hidden road is known. They call your disappearance The day the station lost its own. But beneath the boundary railing, Where the red threads turned and blew, The horizon never took you. It was only Covering for you.
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