Lyrics Ab Aeterno (Live from National Concert Hall, Dublin / June 2019) - Michael Giacchino

As Michael mentioned before, the first time we did this
Was with the Honolulu Symphony
We had actually talked a lot about the um
The fact that we had all of these other characters on the show
You never really know anything about what their experiences were
Being from flight 815
So, for the Honolulu Symphony concert
Damon and I and the other writers wrote some letters to that were
We sort of imagine them as sort of messages in a bottle
That were written by other members of the uh, castaways
Um, and sort of the kind of thing that they would've put in a bottle
And sent off to sea
And I'm gonna read one now
And then Jorge's gonna read another one in just a couple of minutes

Dear grandpa, I never believed in God until I came to this place
The first night on the beach, I followed the embers of our campfires
Up into the clear and infinite sky
And I didn't see stars, I saw entire galaxies
I was so overwhelmed by what I saw, and that I was alive
And that I was a part of everything I was seeing
Albert Einstein once said there are only two ways to live
One is as though nothing is a miracle
And the other is as though everything is
I'm definitely in the latter camp now
Just like the lights of Los Angeles
Always kept me from ever really seeing the sky
Before I got her, I was blinded by the focus on myself
God and the stars and the rest of the world
Will always there for me
It just took me until now to finally see them
Love, your granddaughter, Jessie