[Intro] (soft piano, faint choir) I walked into the trees And never came back the same… [Verse 1] Shadows breathing, branches twitching Names fall off my tongue Every footprint that I follow Feels like it belongs to someone else, long gone Silver moon behind the canopy But I can’t see the sky Every heartbeat sounds like footsteps Chasing me from somewhere on the other side [Pre-Chorus] I hear a voice, but I can’t tell If it’s mine or someone I used to be Leaves like pages underfoot Tear apart my history [Chorus] I am lost and never truly found Fading echoes buried underground All my memories, swallowed by the sound Of a forest eating me alive, pulling me down If I had a name, it’s gone without a sound I am lost… and never truly found [Verse 2] Cold air burning in my empty lungs I taste earth and rust Every tree a crooked question Every root a hand reaching up through the dust Then the treeline breaks, and the world falls out Like a nightmare come to stay Blackened cars and broken windows Skeletons of cities wasting away [Pre-Chorus] Sky on fire, ashes falling Like a snow I don’t recall All I know is this new hunger And the silence after the fall [Chorus] I am lost and never truly found Walking ruins, ghosts without a town All my memories, scattered on the ground Like the glass beneath my feet, shattered around If I had a life, it’s gone without a sound I am lost… and never truly found [Bridge] (strings swell, guitars enter heavier) Faces flicker at the edge of sight Like photographs drowned in static white Were they mine, or did I steal Someone else’s pain to feel? Hands are shaking, but there’s nothing there No ring, no scars, no cross to wear Just this hunger digging deep Like the forest followed me into my sleep (build) If there was a home, it burned away If there was a past, it died that day All that’s left is what I see This ruined world, and whatever’s left of me [Breakdown] (choir + guitars, half-sung/half-whispered) Who was I before the dark? Just a name… just a spark… Now I’m crawling through the end of time With no story, no design [Final Chorus] I am lost and never truly found Under blood-red heavens, broken ground All my memories, swallowed by the sound Of an empty, dying earth, spinning down If I had a soul, it’s somewhere I can’t reach now I am lost… and never truly found [Outro] (piano only) If I ever had a face The forest took it back somehow If I ever had a name It doesn’t matter now… I am lost… And never truly found
