Terminal Star - Karine Polwart

You’re a beautiful trace 
Across time and space 
You’re a thing that once shone 
And you still shine bright 
In the darkest night 
Though you’re already gone 

You have travelled so far 
My terminal star 
In your coat so red 
But I still don’t know how 
I can watch a thing now 
When it’s already dead 
When it’s already dead 

Just to reach my eyes 
You traverse the skies 
For a hundred million years 
I behold your power 
In this waukrife hour 
Just before it disappears 

All the stories in stones 
And in beakers and bones 
All the salt in the sea 
Are eclipsed by the might 
Of your fading light 
You’re dying so beautifully 
So beautifully 

You’re a beautiful trace 
Of time and space 
You’re a thing that once shone 
And you till shine bright 
In the darkest night 
Though you’re already gone 
Though you’re already gone