Lyrics and music by Alex Waters

 

Hot sun beating on my back

a royal monument is rising from the act

Luscious green, swaying palm trees

someday in the future, this will be a mystery

I was there, watching through the torchlight

sandstone altar offering to starlight

We conform long before we’re born

no one can tell me I wasn’t here before

 

I need to know

have I met you before?

This body was mine

before it was yours

 

Cold wind cutting through the plain

someone many centuries before me wore my name

So strong, we might be the same

sailed across the water with a raven for my aim

I was there, steering by the fire glow,

bleeding on the deck to keep the promise made whole

My life, a worthy sacrifice

I remember your eyes lifted to the ice

 

Rejoice

for you will live again

 

I need to know

is it already time?

You watched me explore

before you were mine

 

I’ve been me before!

 

Early morning, wading to the shore;

they swore that I would make it, but I was never sure

Facing down those who kill for sport

I could be a martyr in another nameless war

Duck and cover, locket with a lover

every single life pulls you and me together

Closed my eyes, one blink to another

that’s about the time I woke up someone else’s brother!

 

Rejoice

for I will live again

 

I think I know

have you ever died?

The story we share

was the same the whole time

 

You’ll destroy my heart

when my life restarts

I remember us

I’ve been me before!