Prompt / Lyrics
Verse 1 Time keeps moving without a sound No witness needed, no higher ground It doesn’t ache, it doesn’t choose It doesn’t win, it doesn’t lose Seconds fall like winter rain No intention, no refrain The clock spins clean, untouched by fear While we drag meaning year to year Pre-Chorus Time doesn’t remember names Doesn’t care for loss or gain But here we stand, hands scarred and raw Trying to outlast the law Chorus Time persists without a fight We persist against the night It costs us blood, it costs us flame Still we carry on the name Time goes on, unbent, unblessed We persist against the test Verse 2 Rivers run because they must Stars burn down to cosmic dust No doubt, no pause, no asking why They never wonder how or if they die But we remember what was said We hear the voices of the dead Every step is weighted down By questions buried underground Pre-Chorus 2 Time won’t stop to mark the fall Doesn’t grieve us after all Yet still we build, we still defend A fragile line we call the end Chorus Time persists without a fight We persist against the night It costs us sleep, it costs us peace Still we will not release Time rolls on, perfectly still We persist by force of will Bridge (Instrumental space implied) (spoken or half-sung, Rush-style) Time doesn’t hope Time doesn’t care But we keep asking As if it’s there We carry weight that time ignores Memory knocking at closed doors Breakdown Persistence isn’t gravity It isn’t law or symmetry It’s standing when there’s no command A stubborn mark in shifting sand Final Chorus Time persists, untouched, untold We persist growing old Not because we’re meant to last But we refuse to fade that fast Time keeps going, clean and free We persist—so it remembers we were here Outro Time goes on We go on anyway
Tags
hard fast aggressive in the style of the 1990’s Canadian indie-prog rock band
Duration
4:19
Instrumental
No
Created
12/22/2025