[Intro - Spoken, alternating] [M] Another arena [F] Another start [M] Limited arrows [F] Perfect your art [Verse 1 - Male] The end is but another start Another arena to hone your art Limited are the arrows in your clip And the leaderboards do often flip [Verse 1 - Female] Immortality is just out of your grasp As you sprint to outpace Death's rasp Your hunting weapons weigh you down "But I cannot abandon them," you frown [Pre-Chorus - Both] Running through the forest of ambition Every step a calculated decision [Chorus - Both, harmonizing] We are hunters in the dark Chasing something more than breath Building legacies as art Racing time, outrunning death Drop the tools that slow us down Pick up sharper ones instead No time to turn around Only forward, forge ahead [Verse 2 - Male] You glance beside you and behind And see many of your kith and kind [Verse 2 - Female] Yet to the fore there is nary a shadow True leaders do not stop or dawdle [Bridge - Alternating rapidly] [M] Every so often, a flash of the scythe [F] And a hunter falls, a corpse or in blithe [M] The urge to join them grows and wanes [F] As you peek at the winding golden chains [Both] Golden chains of comfort calling "Rest here, stop the endless crawling" But we know what comfort brings— Slow death dressed in shiny things [Verse 3 - Female] The bodies around you that start to rot Have names history won't give another thought [Verse 3 - Male] You tell yourself, "These are not the same as me! I have the rest of the universe left to see." [Instrumental Break - Orchestral swell] [Verse 4 - Female lead, Male harmony] A sharp dagger wriggles loose from your store And soon it lands on the dense forest floor You pity the loss but you cannot turn back Perhaps it'll be found by a later hunter with lack [Verse 4 - Male lead, Female harmony] You bend down to sweep up a knife that lay just ahead And pray that it'll cut as fine in the dagger's stead Every tool you drop, every tool you find Is just evolution leaving the past behind [Pre-Chorus 2 - Both, building] The path gets steeper, air gets thinner But there's no prize for second place Only those who push through winter Ever win this endless race [Final Chorus - Both, full intensity] We are hunters in the night Building something meant to last Trading comfort for the fight Learning from the fallen's past Every sunrise, wake up cold Every sunset, still not done Stories yet to be told Tomorrow's hunt has just begun [Outro - Quieting] [F] The sun sets and you begin to tire [M] But in your heart remains ambition as fire [F] When morning arrives you wake up, hungry and cold [Both] But you've survived another day To re-embark the path of the bold To re-embark the path of the bold [Final lines - Whispered] [M] Another arena [F] Another start [M] The hunt continues
