Search (feat. Rhiannon Giddens)

All life is but the climbing of a hill

To seek the sun that ranges far beyond

Confused with stars and lesser lights anon

And planets where the darkness reigneth still.

 

All life is but the seeking for that sun

That never lets one living atom die,

That flames beyond the circles of the eye,

Where never and forever are as one.

 

And seeking always, through this human span,

That spreads its drift of years beneath the sky,

Confused with living, goeth simple man,

Unknowing and unknown into the Why.

 

The Why that flings itself beyond the sun,

And back in space to where,

Time was begun.