[Intro: Slide guitar, slow fade in. Rain SFX, soft thunder in background] [Spoken over fading guitar notes] Somewhere between the smoke and the silence, Autumn stirs. And it knows your name. [Chorus 1] The pages of the summer catch on fire, The earth devours a flaming dagger’s ire. You’re running on the tiles slick with desire — But can’t outrun yourself, not by a mile. [Instrumental Break – 2 bars: minor key guitar riff, slow blues beat] [Verse] You didn’t flee the doubts or ghostly moaning, The voices — worthless whispers in your head. You fall again, then rise without atonement, Still blinded by the fog that lies ahead. It veils the road and silences all meaning, No answer comes to what you scream or pray. Above, He laughs — the One who’s always seeing If you will slip, or somehow find your way. [Guitar Fill – 4 bars: echo-heavy solo, melancholic bends] [Chorus 2] The whiskey choked, the cognac wouldn’t land, The autumn blues come knocking with cold hands. So let it come — I’ve danced this dance before. I’ll waste my days with sober mind once more. [Outro: Finger-picked guitar slowing down gradually, low ambient drone building] [Spoken whisper fading out] Still running. Still burning. Still here.
