[Tempo: 92 BPM | Key: C# minor | Pulsing 16th-note arp on detuned Prophet saws, low Juno pad with slow attack, distant plate reverb] [Build] [Verse 1] Streetlights flicker like dying stars over empty avenues Voices on the streams repeat the same old news We built our towers high to touch a silent sky Now they lean and crumble while we ask ourselves why [Pre-Chorus] The children scroll through ghosts of yesterday’s light While tomorrow burns unseen in the endless night [Chorus] (We cry for the future, we cry for the past Living in echoes, praying they’ll last Every tear a mirror, every sigh a chain We cry for the future, we cry for the past ah gain) [hook] Cry for the future Cry for the past You know in your heart This wasn't made to last [Verse 2] Billboards promise salvation in a brand-new shade But the colors bleed away in the mess we made We dance in looping fragments of a song we used to know Clinging to the rhythm as the world lets go [Pre-Chorus] The leaders speak in circles, their words dissolve to dust And the air grows thick with everything we’ve lost [Chorus] (We cry for the future, we cry for the past Living in echoes, praying they’ll last Every tear a mirror, every sigh a chain We cry for the future, we cry for the past ah gain) [Bridge – filters open slowly, higher detuned lead enters] Is this the mad world we were warned about? All our dreams reduced to static and doubt We shout into the void, but the void just shouts back A perfect reflection of the lives we lack [hook] Cry for the future Cry for the past You know in your heart This wasn't made to last [Instrumental Break – octave-doubled lead motif rising C#–D#–E–F#–G#–A, delay feedback increasing] [?][?][?][?] last-last-last-last-last (into past)(into past)(into past) [?][?][?][?] [Final Chorus – full layers, slight tape slowdown beginning] (We cry for the future, we cry for the past Living in echoes that were never meant to last Every tear a mirror, every sigh a chain We cry for the future… We cry for the past… Ah gain) [breakdown] [Outro – strip to single pad and faint arp echo, unresolved C# min9]
