[Verse 1] In the hall of no echoes Where the torches forget to burn There’s a book wrapped in cindercloth Waiting for a hand to turn Names of sleeping constellations Pressed in ink that never dries Every letter shakes a mountain Every margin hides an eye [Chorus] Sing O Chronicle of quiet gods Bound in bone and breath and frost Every word a wound they never show I touch the page The candles bow Ancient quarrels crowd the dark Breathing in my borrowed heart In the silence where the script should start I hear them arguing in the snow [Verse 2] On the first unwritten parchment Only stillness Pale and wide Not a single mark of thunder Not a single grieving tide Yet my fingertip grows heavy As if dragging distant years I can hear a broken war-drum Underneath the choir of spears [Chorus] Sing O Chronicle of quiet gods Bound in bone and breath and frost Every word a wound they never show I trace the blank The room turns cold Sacred anger Aching grace Crowns and ashes trade their place In the silence where the script should grow I feel their futures coming slow [Bridge] [Low whistle and fiddle answer the vocal line Ritual drums pulse like a distant heartbeat Choir rises in hollow harmonies] They once spoke through storm and star Crushed the sky to shape a law Now they circle empty lines Afraid of what their hands would draw “Write us gentle” one voice whispers “Write us gone” another pleads Pages flutter like white banners Trembling over buried deeds [Chorus] Sing O Chronicle of quiet gods Bound in bone and breath and frost Every vow a blade they long to drop I close the book Their thunder stops All their temples All their scars Folded in the dark between In the silence where the echoes part Only one faint harp-string leans [Outro] [Harp alone Then soft choir hum; a single page turns] I place the volume back to sleep Dust like snowfall on its spine Every god behind the cover Listening for one last sign But the hall returns to stillness Low flames sink into the stone Like a hand that shuts a story I leave their war Unwritten And go home
