Dan Fogelberg's "Nexus"
(Performed By Rob Sterling [Robhamster])
(From "The Innocent Agers")

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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 

So 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

~~~ Dan Fogelberg ~~~