was gonna say this in the chasm thread but i may as well do it here instead
a bleak, reflective song of culmination and finality at the end of a long journey, which unexpectedly ends on an unresolved, haunting fade-out, "slowly fading into the dreams of the universe". one of the best and most underrated songs of their career, as tense and evocative as anything they ever wrote; "i am the dawn, i'm the night..." leading into the climax never fails to give me goosebumps.