The Selenite Province lyrics

When Antares stirred the mind And the old sky burned with signs Astronomers locked away Their tables of forgotten time Earth became a cameo Suspended in the outer dark While the nebulae unrolled Ancient ligatures of stars On the dials there flashed again Ascensions, declinations Like inscriptions left behind By extinguished generations On the Far Side of the Moon In a distant selenite land Stands a city carved in silence Built by no remembered hand Ancient Germanic emblems Beside a stellar dynasty As if two forgotten calendars Shared the same chronology There were seven-sided halls There were gates of anorthite There were hidden docking vaults Far beyond all traffic lights Through the vaulted galleries Marched the ranks in measured pace Bearing weathered insignia Of regiments erased And the elders of Aldebaran Grave and luminous to behold Studied charts of vanished systems In repositories old On the Far Side of the Moon In a distant selenite land Stands a city carved in silence Built by no remembered hand Ancient Germanic emblems Beside a stellar dynasty As if two forgotten calendars Shared the same chronology In the lithographic archives Of a monastery below Lay cosmographies depicting Regions no one else could know Every plate revealed Star archipelagos afar Every codex traced a passage Past the dominion of pulsars When the vessel turned once more Toward interstellar seas Not a voice disturbed the twilight Not a word disturbed the peace On the Far Side of the Moon In that distant selenite land Still the hidden city lingers Beyond the maps of humankind And whoever watches heaven With unwavering devotion May yet find their names recorded In that station still unspoken Far beyond the reach of history Far beyond what we have known Waiting in the lunar darkness Waiting to be found