The Eye in the Well

Down, down, I've come at last

My future's here, and all my past

Beneath the root of the great tree

The Well of Memory waits for me

The water's black as endless night

Reflecting no familiar light

The old god Mimir guards it still

At the foot of the world's great hill

He knows the price of what I seek

And waits for me to finally speak

A drink of wisdom, deep and true

For a part of me I thought I knew

I give the eye I used to see

The little man I used to be

I let it sink into the deep

For the greater secrets I can keep

The sharpest pain, a blinding white

Then darkness floods my mortal sight

But in the void, a silver gleam

A waking from a lifelong dream

The world I knew is torn away

Reborn in shades of silver-gray

A drink of wisdom, deep and true

For a part of me I thought I knew

I give the eye I used to see

The little man I used to be

I let it sink into the deep

For the greater secrets I can keep

And now I see... oh, now I see

The threads of all that's yet to be

The past and future in the well

A story only it can tell... I am the story

I gave the eye I used to see

The little man I used to be

It rests forever in the deep

For all the secrets I now keep

The eye in the well

Sees all

And all is well