Steven Wilson - The Overview Lyrics

Size beyond one megametre
Ten to the power of six
Ganymede
Callisto
Wolf 359

Size beyond one gigametre
Ten to the power of nine
Sirius
Altair
Vega
Polaris

Size beyond one terametre
Ten to the power of twelve
Antares
Pistol Star
Betelgeuse

Size beyond one petametre
Ten to the power of fifteen
Stringray Nebula
Ring Nebula
Helix Nebula
The Spire
Hourglass Nebula

Size beyond one exametre
Ten to the power of eighteen
Omega Centurai
Messier 54
Tarantula Nebula

Size beyond one zettametre
Ten to the power of twenty-one
Milky Way
Andromeda Galaxy
Fornax Cluster

Size beyond one yottametre
Ten to the power of twenty-four
Virgo Super Cluster
Eridanus Supervoid
Super Cluster Complex

Snow is falling but it can't be seen from here
And back on Earth, my loving wife's been dead for years

I see myself in relation to it all
What seemed important now like dust inside the squall
Each moment for me is a lifetime for you

The clouds have no history
And the sea feels no sorrow
The oxygen recycled
And the atoms are just borrowed
The painless and fragility
Of this cycle, oh

I'm already gone
Is there self?
Is this real?
Is this a dream?

There's no reason for anything
Just a beautiful infinity (ooh)
No design and no one at the wheel
Just an existential mystery

La-la-la-la, la-la, la-la-la

The light that radiates from here could shade the sun
But in a billion years its journey's just begun
(Do-do-do-do)

Size beyond one megametre
Ten to the power of six
Ganymede
Callisto
Wolf 359

Size beyond one gigametre
Ten to the power of nine
Sirius
Altair
Vega
Polaris

Size beyond one terametre
Ten to the power of twelve
Antares
Pistol Star
Betelgeuse

From the air, from the dust
From the sea, from the blood
In the capsule falling millions of years
Prison
All we were, all destroyed
Drifting on through the void
As the permanence of matter disappears
Taken
From the air, from the dust
From the sea, from the blood
In the capsule falling millions of years
Prison
All we were, all destroyed
Drifting on through the void
As the permanence of matter disappears

Size beyond one zettametre
Ten to the power of twenty-one
Milky Way
Andromeda Galaxy
Fornax Cluster

Size beyond one yottametre
Ten to the power of twenty-four
Virgo Super Cluster
Eridanus Supervoid
Super Cluster Complex