Intro (Gregorian choir • distant bells • orchestral strings swelling beneath low-tuned guitars)
Pulvis es…
Et in pulverem reverteris…
(“For dust you are, and to dust you shall return.”)
Verse 1
A heartbeat strong enough to shake the walls,
Now silence fits inside a pair of hands.
Every scar, every laugh, every broken promise—
Reduced to something no one understands.
The world keeps turning like it always does,
Traffic lights still change from red to green.
But all the weight that once could hold a family
Now barely tips the scale between my fingers.
Pre-Chorus
Tell me…
How does forever…
Become so light?
Chorus
The weight of dust…
Is heavier than stone.
It’s not what I can carry—
It’s everything that’s gone.
No pulse beneath the skin.
No breath beneath the ribs.
Just a thousand unsaid tomorrows
Sealed inside a fragile lid.
The weight of dust…
Crushes more than mountains ever did.
Verse 2
The chair still waits where no one sits.
The years we never lived collect like rust.
Death never asked permission—
It only left me counting what’s missing.
Some endings don’t arrive with thunder.
Some end with a furnace door.
One moment you’re holding someone’s future…
The next, you’re holding almost nothing at all.
Breakdown (orchestra drops away • crushing guitars • choir chanting beneath)
You couldn’t carry your pain…
Now I carry what’s left.
You slipped through flesh.
Through time.
Through fire.
And all the world returned…
Was dust.
Final Chorus (full orchestra, choir, double-kick drums)
The weight of dust…
Will never measure love.
No scale can count a lifetime.
No fire can burn a soul.
What’s left inside this vessel
Isn’t the man I knew.
Just the quiet proof
That every breath is borrowed.
The weight of dust…
Reminds me…
Life was never ours to keep.
Outro (choir and orchestra fading into a single sustained note)
Ashes fall.
The soul does not….
You couldn’t wait to see the end
And left me to defend….
