I Still See Her Face

I left it all in the fire below

Don’t know where I’m supposed to go

They said it stands—I don’t feel the same

All that’s left is a burning name

Still hear the guns when I try to sleep

Still feel the ground when it cracked beneath

I made it out but I lost my place

Cadia gone… I still see her face

Lift-off shakes through a breaking world

I don’t look back, just grip and hold

Smoke still rising where we stood

Everything gone that once felt good

Hands still shaking, rifle held

Orders faded, nothing left to tell

Engines hum but it don’t feel right

We made it out, but we lost that fight

They said we’d hold, they said we’d stand

Now it’s slipping through open hand

I hear the echoes in my head

Names of the ones we left for dead

I left it all in the fire below

Don’t know where I’m supposed to go

They said it stands—I don’t feel the same

All that’s left is a burning name

Still hear the guns when I try to sleep

Still feel the ground when it cracked beneath

I made it out but I lost my place

Cadia gone… I still see her face

Hull runs cold, stars drift slow

No one talking, we already know

Eyes stay low, no one meets

Every seat filled with quiet defeat

Some still gripping empty gear

Like it might bring something back here

I close my eyes but it don’t fade out

Still feel the rupture shake through the ground

We held as long as we ever could

Did everything that we were told we should

But none of that brings it back

Just a memory burned in black

I left it all in the fire below

Don’t know where I’m supposed to go

They said it stands—I don’t feel the same

All that’s left is a burning name

Still hear the guns when I try to sleep

Still feel the ground when it cracked beneath

I made it out but I lost my place

Cadia gone… I still see her face

I check my kit like it means something now

Same routine but I don’t know how

To be the man that I was before

Standing guard on that broken floor

Command will come, they’ll send us out

Tell us what this war’s about

But I already know what’s true

We carry it in what we do

Planet’s gone but we remain

That loss is carved into the name

So wherever they send me next

I bring that world inside my chest

I left it all in the fire below

Don’t know where I’m supposed to go

They said it stands—I don’t feel the same

All that’s left is a burning name

Still hear the guns when I try to sleep

Still feel the ground when it cracked beneath

I made it out but I lost my place

Cadia gone… I still see her face