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
DonaldFritsche
