[Verse 1] The shadow tears away from flesh and bone, It walks the weary path, unseen, unknown. A vigil kept in silence, out of sight, Bereft of shelter, fading into night. [Verse 2] The ember leaves the hearth and dies away, Too weak to warm the living for a day. It shivers in the cold and vacant air, A breath forgotten, lost beyond repair. [Chorus] They are the useless, the broken, the lost, Bearing the road despite every cost. The cast-aside gather, the shadows align, To carve out a path that the world can't define. [Hook] A falling star seeking redemption still casts its shadow. For fate is not altered by plucking a rose in a meadow. [Verse 3] The voice is splintered sharp against the wind, With no one there to let the echo in. It drifts in muted wandering, apart, Guarding the scattered remnants of a heart. [Verse 4] The breath of dawn has faltered in the sky, Unnoticed as the morning passes by. It seeks a light that never comes to be, A day that no one else will ever see. [Final Hook] A solitary fight with fate repeats Sisyphus’s design, yet shared misfortune bends the peaks no mortal could align. [Chorus — Reprise] They are the useless, the broken, the lost, Bearing the road despite every cost. The cast-aside gather, the shadows align, To carve out a path that the world can't define. [Outro] Each step is defiance now. Each step is survival now.
