00:17In the hush where the last candle sighs
00:25The shadow leans where the window used to cry
00:33Petals fall like forgotten, rain on the stone
00:42And the garden forgets it ever had a home
00:51The river runs black where the silver once sang
00:55No echo answers, the stones where we once rang
01:00Footprints fill slowly with dust made of years
01:05And the wind carries nothing
01:07No laughter, no tears
01:13Oh, the world keeps turning
01:16But the colors bleed out like a painting
01:19Left under the merciless drought
01:22Every star in the heavens forgets how to burn
01:26And I stand in the ruin where the light used to turn
01:30I see only the hollow where the fire once spoke
01:37Now silence devours the last thread of smoke
01:46Broken bells in the tower no longer call home
01:51Their tongues turn to rust, their voices turn stone
01:55The roads that once led me now circle and fade into fields
02:00Full of ashes where promises were made
02:04The mirror shows someone I no longer know
02:08A stranger with eyes like abandoned snow
02:12Hands that once held the dawn in their palms
02:17Now clutch, only winter and the ghost of old songs
02:25So the world keeps turning
02:27But the colors bleed out like a painting
02:31Left under the merciless drought
02:34Every star in the heavens forgets how to burn
02:38And I stand in the ruin where the light used to turn
02:42I see only the hollow where the fire once spoke
02:49Now silence devours the last thread of smoke
02:58If the sky could remember the warmth of your name
03:03It would weep every cloud till the oceans reclaim
03:07But even the heavens have learned how to lie
03:11They paint themselves blue while the inside goes dry
03:19So I walk through the evening that never quite ends
03:24Where the moon is a wound that no healing can mend
03:28And the heart in my chest beats a rhythm of rust
03:33A slow-dying drum
03:38For the kingdom of dust
03:43Oh, the world keeps turning
03:47But I've forgotten the sound
03:51Of anything living
03:54That hasn't burned down
04:00All that's left is this hollow where the fire once spoke
04:07And the beautiful nothing
04:11That swallowed my hope
04:17Nothing
04:21Nothing
04:22Nothing
04:24Nothing at all
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