You've lost me. It just sound very metaphorical, even if I know you mean it literally.

[He smiles though, encouraging and self-deprecating at the same time. He wants to learn, but he's entirely out of practice with a lute after being on the run for so long and they're both completely out of context in the fleet.]

There are just some ways in which elven society - societies I should say - interact with the world that are far enough different from humans as to be incomprehensible to us. I'm not sure I'll ever understand what it is to 'hear the song of the world'. I'd ask you to teach me, but as it's not magic and I am no elf, I'm not sure it would work.

[A beat, then-]

Also we're in space.