Abigail's Questions (In an Infinite Universe)

Beardfish

Compositor: Rikard Sjöblom

In an infinite universe
My first breath seems very close to my last
On the other hand:
Nothing has a beginning
Nothing has an end
In this infinite universe
Her breath felt so warm in the pouring rain
In the night we spoke
Of the cold and vast darkness
Abigail told me that
"Nothing has a beginning,
Nothing has an end…"
"What lures around the bend
of the continuous expanding infinity
that twirls my mind?
Will it like a rubber band get stretched 'til it snaps?
Send itself hurling back through time and space
But if it's infinite... that means it all has to go at the same time... right?"
"Like the white dot in the middle of the TV when you turn it off
Just seizing to exist, from everything to nothing
Or maybe the other way around?"
She felt lost there, like I'm lost here, but where else could we go
Our speculations were multi-layered, so we rolled with the flow
If space is the final frontier, we're still part of it
Lost in suspended animation forever
Abigail, take my hand
Follow me, let's run down the milky way
Stay with me, Abigail, my crazy source of joy
Don't ever let go
In my infinite loneliness
Her first kiss is all I can think of now
But she left me a trail (guess I'd better go track her down…)
In an infinite universe
My first breath seems very close to my last
On the other hand:
Nothing has a beginning
Nothing has an end