WHERE THE SILENCE GOES [Extended instrumental intro — slow, mournful clean guitar, distant atmospheric layers, deep bass gradually emerging] [Verse 1 — sparse, low clean vocals] I laid my sorrow in the dust, Among the things I couldn't trust. I called into the endless night, And waited for a sign of light. [Long instrumental passage — crushing slow doom riffs, sustained guitar harmonies, no vocals] [Chorus 1 — haunting clean vocals, spacious and restrained] Is there somewhere this sorrow goes? Beyond the reach of all we know? If I should break beneath this weight, Would anything remain to wait? [Extended instrumental passage — slow drums, mournful lead guitar, gradual crescendo] [Verse 2 — intimate, almost whispered vocals] The ashes settle on my skin, A thousand wars I fought within. I wear the years I cannot change, A stranger walking through the rain. [Instrumental interlude — long sustained chords, deep resonant bass, no vocals] [Verse 3 — fragile clean vocals, widely spaced lines] No sacred words, no grand design, Just weary hands and borrowed time. Take what remains I cannot bear, Or leave me knowing no one's there. [Long instrumental passage — enormous slow riffs, layered melodic guitars, atmospheric decay] [Chorus 2 — soaring but mournful clean vocals] Is there somewhere this sorrow goes? Beyond the reach of all we know? When every light has turned to grey, Is there a reason left to stay? I have no strength to ask for more, No certainty of what's in store. Yet through the dark, through all this pain, I whisper something once again. [Extended instrumental outro — crushing guitar chords give way to clean harmonics, distant reverb slowly fading into silence]
