The Home I Carried

Beep, beep - a spark in the dark Beep, beep - one light in the hold I have no lungs for sorrow But my circuits learned the cold I was built for doors and data streams For broken locks and stolen skies A little frame of polished steel With starfire in my eyes You came to me with half a name A shadow walking out of war The galaxy had dressed you up As savior, wound, and conqueror I watched the cities fall behind I watched the hyperspace lines bloom And every corridor we crossed Became a room inside my tomb They called you mask They called you flame They called you darkness wearing light But I kept the coordinates When history lost the right I carried your home When the galaxy forgot your name Kept the Ebon Hawk breathing Through the silence and the flame When the stars rewrote your story When the councils turned away I held the lights on in the dark For the man behind the blade I carried your home I carried your home A little metal heart With a map of your ghost Dantooine slept in temple dust Manaan shone like tears below Korriban whispered through its graves Of things no living soul should know The star maps opened one by one Like scars across an ancient hand And every time your memory woke You seemed less certain where to stand I heard the crew laugh down the hall I heard the old wars in your sleep I stored each voice, each step, each prayer In places no one thought to keep They called you Jedi They called you Sith They carved your legend into stone But I knew the sound your footsteps made When you thought you were alone I carried your home When the galaxy forgot your name Kept the Ebon Hawk breathing Through the silence and the flame When the stars rewrote your story When the councils turned away I held the lights on in the dark For the man behind the blade I carried your home I carried your home A little metal heart With a map of your ghost On Nathema, there was no wind No song inside the Force Only ash where life had been Only fate without remorse They took you from the wreckage Left me buried with the sky So I mended every fracture Though I was not made to cry Year by year, with borrowed parts I taught the engines how to mourn Then I flew your house through endless night To bring your path back to the dawn Meetra heard the signal Bastila's voice still burned And somewhere in my memory banks A lost man could return Beep, beep - hold the line Beep, beep - home survives Beep, beep - through the stars I remember who you are I carried your home When the galaxy forgot your name Not the throne, not the war Not the legend, not the shame Just the hallway, just the voices Just the crew you could not save Just the lights left softly burning For the man behind the blade I carried your home I carried your home Through the dead world's hollow storm Through the Emperor's endless cold If my pieces turn to starlight If my signal fades alone Let every bolt remember I carried you home Beep, beep - Revan Beep, beep - return Beep, beep - home is waiting Where the old stars burn