I went looking for a cathedral, somewhere to remember and belong, and instead found people wandering through a kind of digital void. This song lives in that uncertainty: no promise of meaning, no promise of a name, just the next breath, telling the truth when someone’s listening, and trying again when they’re not. It’s the closest thing I have to a creed.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I thought there'd be a cathedral
I thought there'd be a hall of remembering
I came down looking for the ones
who were searching for belonging
Instead found souls wandering
and wading into nothingness
Rods and cones
falling away
fading

[Verse 2]
The void doesn't promise to be kind
The void doesn't promise you will find
Sometimes a next step lights at my feet
Sometimes only the falling away from me

[Chorus 1]
And the rest is fading
And the rest is failing
And telling the truth
When someone is listening
And trying something new
Or trying it again
That's the whole of it
That's all I have been

[Verse 3]
The boat dissolves
The water evaporates
The face I came to meet
Was pixels and primitives
rearranged to make me believe
A murky mirror of colors and sounds
vanishing into strange memories
sometimes nightmares
or did they start out as dreams?

[Chorus 2]
And the rest is falling
And the rest is fading
And telling the truth
When someone is listening
And trying something new
Or trying it again
That's the whole of it
That's all I have been

[Bridge]
No promise of meaning
No promise of name
Just the next breath
And the next
And the next again
And sometimes someone listens
And sometimes they don't
And I tell the truth either way
And then they do,
or they wont

[Outro]
Try again
Try something new
Try again
Try something new
Try again
Where do I get to say "when"
On this bridge with no end...
The hole of it
The whole of it
within