Lyrics Perigee - Hit the Switch

Perigee

(Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself
But mankind wasn’t always so lucky.
Less than a century ago men and women did
not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them
They could not name even one of the fifty-three portals to the soul
Gimcrack religions were big business
Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie within every human being,
looked outward — pushed ever outward.
What mankind hoped to learn in its
outward push was who was actually in charge of all creation, and what all
creation was all about
Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward.
Eventually it
flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of
outwardness without end
It flung them like stones.)
Space cloud to moon
Transmissions loud but incomplete
I felt her croons sedate the night
Winds song to sleep
Wrote the solemn word in stone
Forever longing to the world
She takes a breath of anguish
Felt throughout those monotone beats
Like a prayer
And now my heart feels it too
We fell a long way from the wire
I know I’m not alone I felt her love
As the presence came alive
And it’s all inside of me
But I’m losing the fight
And I see orbital débris
Lost the Undefended hope
No one noticed we lost
Stop battling ourselves for meaning
Always letting problems grow
Retraced the steps to find our home
Among the fires we kept lit
This lonely planet drifts across the rift
Into the dark matters of mankind
Wait
Back to the moment we both tried
And if they leave the rest behind
I know we’ll still survive
I saw the marks upon your face
And as time slowed you looked at me
You grabbed my hand for the last time
I felt your needs
When the final warning woke the match
Spread fire as oceans rise up and take shape
I still remember everything
It was the moment you took care
It’s been in me and all this time
You know that I never thanked you right
(I've owed you since)
You know it means so much to me
(it means so much)
You’ve shown me the light