(Melancholic / Narrative / Hard Road Blues) [Verse 1] The Calpheon sun burns deep in my back, Packing regrets in a worn leather sack. Every mile feels like ten years gone, Trading my sweat for a war I can't won. [Verse 2] Dirt in my teeth, and my bones creak loud, Whispers of debts scream up from the ground. Ghosts in the wind hum a dead man’s tune, Flickers of fire, echoes of ruin. [Chorus] Oh, the road don’t care if you live or bleed, It swallows your name like a thief in the breeze. And the past keeps clawing, dragging me slow, Through the dust and the memory—nowhere to go. [Verse 3] Lanterns burn low in some far-off town, But my shadow’s too heavy to lay itself down. Deals made in whispers, now shouting my sins, A ledger of losses where no one wins. [Bridge] (Instrumental swell, slow and heavy) The wheels keep turning, the sun won’t sleep, And every horizon’s a promise I’ll never meet… [Chorus] (Repeat, more desperate) Oh, the road don’t care if you live or bleed, It swallows your name like a thief in the breeze. And the past keeps clawing, dragging me slow, Through the dust and the memory—nowhere to go. [Outro] (Fading, exhausted) One more dawn, one more debt unpaid, One more ghost in the choices I’ve made…
