Edge of Sound

The needle trembles past the red
A thousand miles beneath my hands
The road unthreads ahead of me
Like silver drawn across the land
I leave the measured world behind
Where every clock can name its place
And feel the thinning edge of time
Come rushing toward my face

No compass holds the line
No warning marks the air
I cross the last divide
And meet the limit there

At the edge of sound, I am breaking through
Where the world falls back and the sky turns blue
Every breath a spark, every mile undone
I chase the boundary that outruns the sun
At the edge of sound, let the silence ring
I am more than the fear of the vanishing
Though the horizon closes, though the heavens pound
I will ride to the edge of sound

The windows shake, the gauges climb
The distant hills dissolve to flame
A wall of air becomes a sea
And nothing after feels the same
Then one hard instant splits the dark
A thunderclap behind my name
The world catches up in silver waves
But I am still the spark I became

No compass holds the line
No warning marks the air
I cross the last divide
And meet the limit there

At the edge of sound, I am breaking through
Where the world falls back and the sky turns blue
Every breath a spark, every mile undone
I chase the boundary that outruns the sun
At the edge of sound, let the silence ring
I am more than the fear of the vanishing
Though the horizon closes, though the heavens pound
I will ride to the edge of sound

Not faster than the truth can find me
Not stronger than the laws that bind me
Still I can reach beyond the known
And claim the distance as my own
The limit is a line we draw
Then step across in awe

At the edge of sound, I am breaking through
Where the world falls back and the sky turns blue
Every breath a spark, every mile undone
I chase the boundary that outruns the sun
At the edge of sound, let the silence ring
I am more than the fear of the vanishing
Though the horizon closes, though the heavens pound
I will ride, I will rise, I will ride to the edge of sound

To the edge of sound
I ride beyond the bound