[Verse 1]
When you sink past the chatter
Past the weight of the heavy blue sky
Every name that you ever carried
Falls off
Drifts by
All your pictures fade at the edges
All your futures blur into light
At the floor of the falling feeling
Only one thing survives
[Chorus]
Soul is the only thing that's real
In this wide
Wild Cosmos wheel
All these colors
All these forms
They bend
They peel
Soul is the only thing that's real
(only thing, only thing)
[Verse 2]
I have called that river by ten thousand words
Still it runs where the words can't reach
Every truth that I tried to purchase
Turned to sand in my open hand
Then to speech
But there's a hush beneath the thunder
There's an eye in the turning storm
Where the quiet in my chest keeps singing
Like it always has sung before
[Chorus]
Soul is the only thing that's real
In this wide
Wild Cosmos wheel
All these costumes
All these scenes
They fade
They yield
Soul is the only thing that's real
(oh, that's the deal)
[Bridge]
You can dress it up in stories
You can drown it in your fear
You can chase a thousand shadows
Still it waits right here
In plain sight
Plain sight
In your grief
In your laughter at night
In the crack in your proud
Hard mind
Something watching
Kind
[Chorus]
Soul is the only thing that's real
In this wide
Wild Cosmos wheel
All these veils and moving walls
They split
Reveal
Soul is the only thing that's real
Soul is the only thing that's real
(only thing, only thing, only thing)