This is Not the End (Narnia Song from the book, The Last Battle)

Song: This is Not the End
Music, Lyrics & Voices: Ai

[Verse1]
The sun, once golden, swelled to ancient red,
The silver moon consumed, its light now dead.
An ice-white frost began to creep and climb,
And melt away the final gasp of time.

The creatures saw the end, the looming night,
And moved to face the source of final light.
For Aslan stood before the Stable Door,
And offered judgment as he did of yore.

[Chorus]
But this was not the end, they knew at last,
Their lives within the Shadowlands were past.
The great true story, just begun anew,
Beyond the shadows, in a world more true.

"Further up and further in!" the voices cried,
As they ran past the old world, now inside.
The shadow world, the Narnia of a dream,
Was swept away beneath the roaring stream.

[Verse2]
A test of hearts, a judgment swift and clear,
That quelled the false and quelled the bitter fear.
Some looked upon his face and turned away,
To find within the dark their final day.

But some, who served, though blindly, with a truth,
Were welcomed in, in innocence and youth.
And some, the faithful, saw his loving gaze,
And entered through the end of Narnian days.

[Chorus]
But this was not the end, they knew at last,
Their lives within the Shadowlands were past.
The great true story, just begun anew,
Beyond the shadows, in a world more true.

"Further up and further in!" the voices cried,
As they ran past the old world, now inside.
The shadow world, the Narnia of a dream,
Was swept away beneath the roaring stream.

[Bridge]
And Peter, High King, turned and with a key,
Locked fast the door on what had ceased to be.
The holidays had started, so he said,
The dream was over, and the shadows bled.

[Chorus]
But this was not the end, they knew at last,
Their lives within the Shadowlands were past.
The great true story, just begun anew,
Beyond the shadows, in a world more true.

"Further up and further in!" the voices cried,
As they ran past the old world, now inside.
The shadow world, the Narnia of a dream,
Was swept away beneath the roaring stream.