It was all true
A parlour strode, and the night sets forever
I stray in the quiet cold
And you gird me when I dare to listen

Elastic meadow, endless arms of sorrow
Lips try to form "because"
Trying to adapt to the wilderness
Where even foes close their eyes and leave

We are inside the glade
Every now and then I wipe the dust aside
To remember
How I drape my face with my bare hands

The same that brought me here
But you were beyond all help
The folded message that wept my name
Shadows skulk at my coming

We survey the slopes
In search for the words to write the missing page
The tainted dogma
Time grows short

As the piper plays his time
We are almost there
You are beyond all help
Dancing into the void

We are almost there

Copyright: Universal Music Publishing Group
Writer(s): MIKAEL LARS AKERFELDT, SVEN PETER MALCOLM LINDGREN