The candles burn beyond midnight, The room is quiet, the day is gone. The clocks keep stealing little pieces, Yet somehow you keep carrying on. [part 1] You said the days no longer fit, Too many things demanding time. A life of work, a thousand voices, And barely any yours to find. Still there is always one more hour, One more little thing to do. One more song, one final detail, One more night before we're through. [part 2] I know the night is growing late, I know the morning waits for me. But there are still a thousand things That I was not yet meant to leave. One more thought beneath the moon, One more spark before I sleep. The hours may already be gone, But some are worth refusing to keep. [part 3] You chase the hours you say you lack, Then spend them making something new. You build your worlds while others sleep, And somehow time belongs to you. Perhaps the night is not so long. Perhaps I simply make it so. Perhaps the hours I call my own Are only borrowed from tomorrow. WHAT IS TIME, RAVENQUEEN? What is time? Is it a thief or is it kind? Does it take the years we wanted, Or the moments left behind? Or is it simply what remains When all the borrowed hours fade? One more hour... One more night... One more dream... One more thing before the morning. [part 4] Perhaps the clock was never cruel. Perhaps we simply fear its hand. Perhaps the moments that we steal Are the ones we finally understand. A thousand hours disappear. A thousand more are on their way. But none of them can be returned, And none can make another day. Time does not wait. Time does not sleep. Time does not promise What it will keep. One more hour! One more night! One more spark before the light! Hold the moment. Let it stay. For tomorrow takes today. WHAT IS TIME, RAVENQUEEN? The shadow falling through the trees? The hand that takes but never sleeps? The years that vanish from our hands? Or all the moments still we keep? Perhaps it's neither cruel nor kind. Perhaps it simply is. The candles fade. The night grows still. The hours we stole Were ours to fill. Just one more hour...
