Stratospheric traces of our transitory flight   Trails of condensation held in narrow bands of white   The sun is turning black   The world is turning gray   All the stars fade from the night   The oceans drain away      Horizon to horizon, memory written on the wind   Fading away, like an hourglass, grain by grain   Swept away like voices in a hurricane   In a vapor trail      Atmospheric phases make the transitory last   Vaporize the memories that freeze the fading past   Silence all the songbirds   Stilled by the killing frost   Forests burn to ashes   Everything is lost      Washed away like footprints in the rain      In a vapor trail