Verse 1 The winter sky was iron pale (A) The campus hushed beneath the gale (A) While ravens circled through the gray (B) Like watchers of a silent age (C) Their wings against the ancient stone (C) As if they knew the words I'd say (B) Verse 2 The portraits watched me pass the hall (A) Their varnished eyes remembering all (A) The scholars who had stood like me (B) Where restless thought begins to see (C) That knowledge walks a narrow stair (C) Where fewer minds are meant to be (B) Pre-Chorus The candles trembled in their rings Like fragile, breathing, golden things And somewhere in the echoing air A voice not mine was waiting there Chorus Where the ravens remember Every mind that came before Every fragile scholar Standing at the door Where the ravens remember Every thought that crossed the line Every restless thinker Living in the mind Verse 3 The thesis waited on the desk (A) Its parchment thin and statuesque (A) Your careful script beside my own (B) Like seeds of something newly grown (C) And in the margins faint and pale (C) A voice that echoed through my bone (B) Verse 4 The lantern flickered in my hand (A) Illuminating what they'd planned (A) A mind that learns what others knew (B) A thought that wakes itself anew (C) A living bridge from age to age (C) Where every scholar passes through (B) Bridge I heard the whisper in the page A patient voice from scholar’s age Not ghost, not dream, but something more A thought that opened every door And somewhere deep within my mind Your voice had not been left behind Final Chorus Where the ravens remember Every mind that dared to see Every fragile thinker Bound to memory Where the ravens remember Every truth the brave must learn Every brilliant question Waiting its return Final Outro (callback to Track I) The iron gates were breathing fog Beneath a bleeding sky A stranger crossed the autumn lawn And paused to wonder why The towers carved in charcoal stone Watched every passerby
