Ritual of Echoes® (Continuation)

[Verse 1] Whispers melt the heavy black Flicker like a broken track Shadows breathing faded light Tracing out a jagged line Echo like a fevered dream Calling from the in-between Every step a fractured rhyme Dancing on a stranger’s time [Chorus] I hear the rite in every pounding Ash in my hands, wild fire surrounding Barely I breathe, phantoms sing through Dark rivers pull me farther from you I feel the rite beneath living skin Blackest abyss drags my body in Carves the road where starfire’s thin Falling below, I never await dawn again [Verse 2] Step on ancient wooden bones Creaking like forgotten tones Doorway breathing, twisted frame Light is ripped by naked flame Circle drawn in burned-out dust Vows like glass in fractured trust Every chord a sharpened blade Cutting through the time we made [Chorus] I hear the rite in every pounding Ash in my hands, wild fire surrounding Barely I breathe, phantoms sing through Dark rivers pull me farther from you I feel the rite beneath living skin Blackest abyss drags my body in Carves the road where starfire’s thin Falling below, I never await dawn again [Bridge] Low in the wires, humming so slow Name in the hush flickers then glows Threads of the hours drag at my pace Knotted in night, deep in the bone space Fingers on pulse, suddenly I Hear every fragile circle inside Still I lean in to every new tone Let all the rings of shadow close home [Chorus] I hear the rite in every pounding Ash in my hands, wild fire surrounding Barely I breathe, phantoms sing through Dark rivers pull me farther from you I feel the rite beneath living skin Blackest abyss drags my body in Carves the road where starfire’s thin Falling below, I never await dawn again [Outro] Streetlights are dying, embers ignite We drift from our torn, hallucinated maps of the night Every secret I could not reveal Burns in the walls, brands the invisible seal If I dissolve inside this surround Know that I’m tired of living shut down Echo will call me back through the haze On this dark road I will remain — ritual and maze