BETWEEN LIGHT AND SHADOW [Intro – Low Male Whisper] Sometimes… you have to lose yourself to finally know who you are. [Wordless Choir] Ahh… ohh… Ahh… ohh… [Verse 1 – Female, breathy] I walked through rooms without a doorway, heard the voices at my back, a thousand hands were there to guide me, but none could lead me to myself. I wore my questions like a symbol just beneath my fragile skin, watched the certainties surrender, barely trusted dawn again. [Pre-Chorus – Male Whisper] Don’t look back… Don’t look back… Look ahead… [Chorus – Female + Choir] Between light and shadow I began to find my way, from the things that once had broken me came a fire I could raise. And when all those old voices call me, I will leave them yesterday, for the night has countless stairways, but the dark will break someday. [Choir] Ahh… ohh… Ahh… ohh… [Verse 2 – Female] Some arrived without a warning, some departed far too loud, some swore they would stay forever till the morning found them out. I built houses on the sand, I believed and sacrificed, I have loved, and hoped, and trusted, sometimes losing myself inside. But when everything is falling, what remains is neither gold nor praise, it’s that heartbeat deep inside you: Get back up. Stand for yourself again. [Male Spoken Whisper] The rear-view mirror is small… the windshield ahead is wide. Maybe… there’s a reason why. [Verse 3 – Female, intimate] I gave more than I had left to give, time and strength and parts of me, and whenever I stopped giving, guilt would softly whisper: “Duty.” Always carrying that feeling when I dared to think of me, as if giving were expected and saying no meant I was guilty. Maybe now I’m finally learning: love cannot be measured by how much of yourself you have to lose before there’s nothing left inside. [Instrumental – Duduk / Frame Drum / Deep Bass] [Bridge – Female, intimate] Around one table, maybe someday, there will be no winners, no losers. Only people who still remember why they stayed. Children laughing, glasses ringing, and for one moment no one has to fight anymore. [Choir Rising] Ahh… ahh… Ohh… ahh… [Final Chorus – Female + Choir] Between light and shadow something brave rose from the ash, what imprisoned me yesterday doesn’t have to be my path. No old voice can write my future, no past can tell me where I’ll go. I have scars, I still have questions, but there’s still so much more ahead of me. [Male Whisper] Don’t look back. [Female Whisper] Look ahead. [Choir] Ahh… ohh… Ahh… ohh… [Outro – Female, almost whispered] Maybe not everything was ending when it felt like everything was gone. Sometimes somewhere past the ruins there’s a life you haven’t met yet.
