CARCER TEMPORIS

[Intro] [Low bass drone, distant ritual toms, dark atmospheric guitar swell] Time The unseen keeper Life The inmate of breath We are born Already measured [Verse 1] [Deep restrained male vocal, slow and ominous] Every cradle holds a countdown Every pulse becomes a debt Every morning feeds the engine Of a night we have not met We name the days as if they serve us We divide them, claim them, spend But the clock is not a witness It is the hand that makes us bend In the mirror stands a warning In the body sleeps a scar What we call a path of living Is a corridor of hours [Pre-Chorus] [Building tension, bass grows heavier] Minute by minute The silence feeds Hour by hour The body yields And behind the face of living Something ancient keeps the key [Chorus] [Explosive emotional chorus, heavy guitars, massive groove] Carcer Temporis Time is the cage of life We breathe inside its borders We fade beneath its knife Carcer Temporis No wall, no chain, no bars Only the slow undoing Written in our stars Time is the cage of life [Verse 2] [Dark hypnotic groove, restrained intensity] Memory drips like broken metal From the ceiling of the mind Every joy becomes an echo Every love is left behind The flesh believes in continuation But the marrow knows the cost Every triumph wears the shadow Of the hour in which it’s lost We build our names against erasure Raise our towers, stake our claim But time does not negotiate It only swallows what we name [Pre-Chorus] [Drums intensify, vocal more urgent] Measure by measure The structure thins Breath after breath The fall begins And beneath the mask of purpose There is only entering [Chorus] [Heavier chorus, wide vocal, thick bass and guitars] Carcer Temporis Time is the cage of life We breathe inside its borders We fade beneath its knife Carcer Temporis No wall, no chain, no bars Only the slow undoing Written in our stars Time is the cage of life [Instrumental Interlude] [Hypnotic bass riff in 7/8, tribal toms build slowly, clean guitars spiral upward, heavy distorted riff enters with massive weight] [Bridge] [Spoken and chanted vocals, low ritual atmosphere] Not the jailer Yet it keeps Not the hunter Yet it eats Not the tyrant Yet it reigns Through the blood Through the bones Through the names We do not flee it We become it We do not hold it We are held within it [Heavy Bridge] [Slow, massive ritual groove, low aggressive guitars] What is a life But measured fire What is desire But borrowed breath What is a crown Inside an hour What is a name Inside a death No prayer can stop it No law can stay No hand can gather The ash of day [Final Chorus] [Full climax, explosive vocal, heavy progressive metal release] Carcer Temporis Time is the cage of life We breathe inside its borders We fade beneath its knife Carcer Temporis No wall, no chain, no bars Only the slow undoing Written in our stars Carcer Temporis The sentence starts at birth And every living creature Walks its circle through the earth Time is the cage of life [Outro] [Whispered, fading, bass drone dissolves] Count the hours Count the breath Every clock Is speaking death Carcer Temporis [End]