[Intro]
Beneath the crown of morning
A colder kingdom wakes
[Verse 1]
You count the names on empty doors
While winter fills the hall
A promise rusts beneath the floor
And no one hears it fall
The mirror keeps the years you lost
The clock keeps taking more
You learn the price of every oath
When mercy leaves the shore
[Pre-Chorus]
But in the silence, face to face
You find the mark you bear
No saint arrives to take your place
No hand descends from there
[Chorus]
This is the dark side of life
Where the brave still bleed inside
We carry the weight, we swallow the night
Yet refuse to kneel and hide
When every road turns cold as stone
And the last safe door is gone
We raise our eyes, we stand alone
And drag the dawn along
[Verse 2]
A brother’s voice becomes a scar
A lover turns away
The things we thought would last forever
Break in a single day
The hungry crowd applauds the throne
The honest lose their names
And every heart that seeks the truth
Must walk through living flames
[Pre-Chorus]
Still through the ashes, step by step
The pulse beneath survives
The wound becomes a battle map
That leads us back to life
[Chorus]
This is the dark side of life
Where the brave still bleed inside
We carry the weight, we swallow the night
Yet refuse to kneel and hide
When every road turns cold as stone
And the last safe door is gone
We raise our eyes, we stand alone
And drag the dawn along
[Bridge]
No heaven promised, no clean escape
No hand to erase what we became
But under the ruin, under the blame
A spark still answers when called by name
You are not the fear that follows you
Not the broken word, not the buried truth
Take every shard from the ground tonight
Build a sword from the dark inside
[Guitar Solo]
[Final Chorus]
This is the dark side of life
But the dark cannot decide
We carry the weight, we swallow the night
With a fire it cannot divide
When every road turns cold as stone
And the last safe door is gone
We raise our eyes, we stand alone
And drag the dawn along
[Outro]
The night may keep its kingdom
The night may claim the sky
But every scar becomes a compass
When you choose to stay alive