The desert buries every trail Every face, every name The sun consumes forgotten vows Till memories fade into the flames Iāve crossed these wastes through countless moons Beneath a sky of fire and brass The dunes erased the roads I knew While hope slipped slowly into ash Yet on my wrist a beacon burns A different light against the night The final trace of my escape From that forsaken islandās prison light But someone watchedā¦ Between the silence of each breath Between the shadows cast by stone A hidden gaze refused to fade Like I was never left alone Every scarā¦ every fallā¦ every cry Iāve madeā¦ Always huntedā¦ every nightā¦ every single dayā¦ I flee the shadows Far from towers, far from light Far from borders built in steel Far from every machine they hide behind Where nothing ever feels real I flee the shadows Only the desert knows my name Its burning windā¦ its endless rage Eyes beyond the stars above Still search beneath the veil I flee the shadows Before the dustā¦ before the ashā¦ There was an island left behind Sometimes I still can see that shape Running toward a shattered sky A manā¦ Out of his shelterā¦ out of breath Hunted by a nameless beast Blades of claws tore through the trees While every heartbeat screamed ādonāt freezeā I watched him vanish with the fog Swallowed whole by wind and gray Then silence closed the world again Like an ancient gate giving way Why are we here? Why do we fall? Why do some returnā¦ While others never come home at all? I saw its shadow crawling over blistered stone A wing eclipsed the sun, the sky became its throne I ran without a thought, without a glance behind As one fierce roar came tearing through my mind A Wyvern ruled the heights with thunder in its veins Its eyes were locked on mine across the burning plains I dodged the cliffs, the thorns, the bones beneath my feet With sand inside my lungs and frozen blood beneath the heat It circledā¦ then it struckā¦ then climbed into the sky Like judgment falling down before I asked it why Each beat of those great wings made every canyon shake Each breath I stole alive was one more chance to take No tribeā¦ no homeā¦ no name left to defend Just scars upon my skin and fear that never ends If that beast finds my trailā¦ then theyāll find me as well Iād rather face a monster than the eyes that know me too wellā¦ Shaādorā¦ Shaādorā¦ Ta-Sahen em kharetā¦ Shaādorā¦ Shaādorā¦ Seneb akh ren mesetā¦ I become the shadow Far from towers, far from light Far from borders built in steel Far from every machine they hide behind Where nothing ever feels real I become the shadow Only the desert knows my name Its burning windā¦ its endless rage Eyes beyond the stars above Still search beneath the veil I become the shadowā¦ I know these monumentsā¦ Obelisks reaching toward the sky Guardians of forgotten pain Their scars still live beneath my skin Nothing I lost returns again I walk around their silent gaze Before the morning starts to rise Because when daylight finds the sand Their shadows come aliveā¦ Aloneā¦ For far too longā¦ The answers fade away Like salt beneath the sea Even hope grows weak Across these burning landsā¦ Thenā¦ A voiceā¦ Coldā¦ Metallicā¦ Impossibleā¦ Rising from the desert itselfā¦ Ā«Ā Loadingā¦ specimenā¦ in progressā¦Ā Ā» I am the shadow The silence finally breaks apart Something wakes beneath my feet I am the shadow A doorway opens into night And the world forgets to breathe I AM SHADOW!! The dunes repeat the name Like echoes through the storm Toward the sound I start to runā¦ I wonāt give upā¦ Not anymore. Nothing surrounds me nowā¦ The wind has fallen silentā¦ And for the very first timeā¦ They will see meā¦
