A Mead Hall in Winter

With an eye pressed to the spyglass (counting constellations)
On the shores of distant oceans
Charting undiscovered lands
The collectors and observers
Curators and explorers
Reflectors of light

Dare to be wise, think for yourself (to see much further)
Go build a steam-driven machine
Or a rocket to the moon
Dig the earth for ancient worlds (look back in time)
Tell the story from the start
The story of us

How did this all come to pass?
Merchants of light

Such wonders here without fantastic things
The curiosity of man
Finding form and shape and truth

But from an age of reason
Reaching out across the land
From the centuries of light
To leaden skies and distant thunder

Meet me at the mead hall in winter
(Set the world to right)
With songs, science and stories
(Hold back the fading light)
Artists and dreamers and thinkers
(Right here by your side)
Finding truth in those travellers' tales
(On this brief flight of life)

Bring word of your engines and designs
Your medicines and poetry
And meet me at the mead hall in winter
(Set the world to right)
With songs, science and stories
(Hold back the fading light) Oh

Artists and dreamers and thinkers
(Right here by your side)
Reaching for the far skies
And the undiscovered depths (undiscovered depths)
Following a dream of the West

Here in science and art
And beauty and music
And friendship and love
You will find us
The best of what we are
The poets and painters
And writers and dreamers

Meet me at the mead hall in winter
(Set the world to right)
With songs and science and stories
(Hold back the fading light)
Artists and dreamers and thinkers
(Right here by your side)

Reaching for the far skies
And the undiscovered depths (undiscovered depths)
Following a dream of the West