[Soft vocalisation] [Verse 1] We kept the watch through endless night, While all our kin were sealed from sight. The heavens dimmed, the stars grew thin, Yet still we bore the weight within. Their gilded lies became our law, A truth we followed without flaw. I learned the price their silence kept, For we who did not see. [Pre-Chorus] I kept the oath I did not crave, A sharpened hand they would not save. I was the blade they would not free— For we who did not choose. [Chorus] I hear the ones I could not save, Their voices rising from the grave. I saw our world consumed in flame, And carry now the weight of name. No star remained to guide our fall, No answer to their final call. Their silence cuts a deeper scar— For we who did not sleep. [Verse 2] They said that mercy broke our vow, And ordered blood, demanded now. They told us: strike the young to keep the dream alive, the perfect sleep. I saw the truth Ker’An once knew, The cost of bending to the few. I laid my weapon on the ground— For we who did not break. [Pre-Chorus] The sky was wings of burning glass, Their judgment falling through the grass. I watched the fire claim our land— For we who could not weep. [Chorus] I hear the ones I could not save, Their voices rising from the grave. I saw our world consumed in flame, And carry now the weight of name. No star remained to guide our fall, No answer to their final call. Their silence cuts a deeper scar— For we who did not sleep. - For we who did not sleep. [Bridge] If I had bowed, if I had turned, Would they still breathe where sunlight burned? Or would their ending still have come, A slower death, a beating drum? Their names are carved beneath my skin, A vow I carry deep within— A memory no flame can keep— For we who did not sleep [Soft vocalisation] For we who did not sleep - For we who did not sleep [Final Chorus ] I hear the ones I could not save, Their voices rising from the grave. I saw our world consumed in flame, And carry now the weight of name. No star remained to guide our fall, No answer to their final call. A million hearts that would not break, A million vows I could not make. The stars remember where they fell, Their ash still drifting through the veil. Their silence cuts a deeper scar— For we who did not sleep. - For we who did not sleep. [Outro – soft] I held the line through endless night, And wonder who they’d be in life. I whisper names I could not keep— For we who do not sleep. For I can never sleep.
