00:20In the hush where the lanterns used to sway
00:28Footsteps fall on the stones that forgot their way
00:35The garden gates swing slow on rusted chain
00:45Roses bow their heads into the rain
00:52I trace the lines where your shadow used to lean
01:01Now only moonlight remembers what it seemed
01:10And the fire that once painted every wall
01:18Falls to grey, no warmth left to recall
01:26I walk these rooms where the echoes learn to lie
01:35Carrying nothing but the weight of the sky
01:43Oh, the quiet grows teeth
01:47It learns my name
01:51And swallows the light
01:55That never came
02:00The clocks forgot the reason they should turn
02:05Their hands hang heavy waiting for a burn
02:09That never returns
02:11The river runs so still
02:16It mirrors only clouds that never will
02:24Break open into mercy or release
02:31I stand inside the ruin of what used to be
02:42And the fire that once painted every wall
02:50Falls to grey, no warmth left to recall
02:57I walk these rooms where the echoes learn to lie
03:06Carrying nothing but the weight of the sky
03:14Oh, the quiet grows teeth
03:18It learns my name
03:23And swallows the light
03:25That never came
03:31If I could scream
03:33The mountains wouldn't answer
03:36If I could bleed
03:38The ground would drink it faster
03:40Than any root could rise
03:43Or a flower dare
03:45There's nothing left to hold
03:47And nothing left to spare
03:49Just the slow collapse
03:51Of everything that was
03:56Into the softest dust
04:00The wind won't even touch
04:05So the fire that once painted every wall
04:11Is only ash that answers when I call
04:16I close my eyes inside the endless fall
04:21And let the silence wrap around it all
04:30Let it wrap around it all
04:38The lanterns sway no more
04:44The roses keep their heads bow to the floor
04:53And I remain where the light forgot the door
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