Artificial Light - Typhoon

In the beginning there was one source of light

It would die and come back every night

As a woman showing off her thighs

Just a little bit at a time

In the beginning

Everyone bowed their heads towards the light

They would dance and eat their friends alive

We were not happy then

And these were simpler times

Now we all play

We’re the moth, we’re the flame

We were aware of the danger

But we could not keep away

My eyes are open

In the beginning I was standing out in the yard

With my father pointing up at the stars

I asked, «Do you think there is life on Mars?

Is there life like ours?»

From here I see a light left on

In a house like mine and out in the lawn

There’s a man like you and a smaller one

I looked in the mirror

I have seen myself

Oh, I know how the universe, it shows itself

It’s always getting bigger like you

I was told that I’d grow up to be myself

I thought I would get bigger too

Look what I have found, look what I have found

Look what I have found, look what I have found

An artificial light, we come and gather around

This is why we have lovers and why we have fighters

This is why the arms race and particle colliders

Our eyes are on the flame

Just a little white lighter

And it belongs to me

It belongs to me

It belongs to me

I woke up in the morning

To a pale light tangled in your hair

And I never wake before you

But this time I caught you sleeping there

Yes you are my sunlight

You are my last breath of air

I would try to hold it

I would try to keep the moment

Like a photograph of the sunset

Like a little kid with a bug net

Like a dying man, I swear

You belong to me, you belong to me

If you belong to anyone then you belong to me

But I have no other place to keep you safe

But in my shaking, ever shaking melody

Life goes on

Comes back on

We’ll all be here

In my familiar halls

Empty jar

Stolen song

Wait for the light

To come back home