To the next light

[Intro: spoken, atmospheric] When darkness wrapped around us, we were there Stunned… by the great light that set our cities ablaze Then came a dawn, pale and diseased [Verse 1] After the light, only rubble and smoke yellowish pools tainted by decay A wounded earth, beneath a deaf and twisted sky and the rotten glow of a strange new sun [Chorus: melodic, haunting, dramatic] We are the distorted melody beating beneath the skin of the world Shadows that will not shatter life runs deep below along the path that leads to the next light, to the next lighhht [Break: guitar solo, echoing and ambient] [Verse 2] Winds lash the skeletons of steel roads reduced to grim ruins Dry riverbeds of dust and poison Time twists, sobbing in silence [Bridge: filtered voice, distant choir effects] Winter mows down the weak like brittle weeds The strong turn to stone faces hollowed and gone They sniff the dust pregnant with omens evading the noise listening for signs [Break: vocal echoes and synth swells] [Chorus: full, emotional with guitars and synth] We are the distorted melody beating beneath the skin of the world Shadows that will not shatter life runs deep below along the path that leads to the next light, to the next lighhht [Outro: spoken, slow, suspended] Pure instinct, only pure instinct We who watched the flames devour the world Who saw the ash swallow the sun we move toward the next light [echo: “the next light… light…” fade out]