Don’t tell me it’s a formless, empty space
I feel it blowing right across my face
It is infinite in measure, but it has a proper name
The invisible foundation of the water and the flame
It’s the Aer in the valley, it’s the mist upon the sea
It’s the very same soul that is animating me
Holding up the body, keeping everything combined
The universal breath of the atmospheric mind
Oh, watch the pressure drop and see the fire ignite
Rarefy the vapor till it’s burning in the night
Now pack it all together, let the temperature fall
The wind becomes the water, and the water builds a wall
Condensing in the dark, thickening the bone
The breath becomes the dirt, and the dirt becomes the stone
It’s the engine of the cosmos, the mechanical gear
The shifting of the density is everything you hear
Look at the earth, it is incredibly wide
A massive, flat table where the mortals reside
It doesn’t sink down into the bottomless deep
It rides upon the air while the heavens are asleep
Like a leaf upon the wind, it is floating on the breeze
Suspended by the vapor underneath the ancient trees
And the sun and the stars are just fiery exhalations
Pushed up by the moisture to the highest elevations
If you thin it, it heats
If you pack it, it cools
The simplest physics for the wise and the fools
Oh, watch the pressure drop and see the fire ignite
Rarefy the vapor till it’s burning in the night
Now pack it all together, let the temperature fall
The wind becomes the water, and the water builds a wall
Condensing in the dark, thickening the bone
The breath becomes the dirt, and the dirt becomes the stone
It’s the engine of the cosmos, the mechanical gear
The shifting of the density is everything you hear
Rarefy… into the fire
Condense… into the stone
Just breath.