Black Cathedral

VERSE 1 Beneath the streets it used to breathe Of steel and names we carved in grief The lifts would fall like whispered prayers While dust would crown our hidden lairs Lockers hum with ghosted light Helmets glow in fading sight Gates are sealed by distant hands Neon flickers, silent stands PRE-CHORUS Cold decrees rewired the rails Cut the power, killed the tales They said change demands this cost But we feel what has been lost CHORUS Neon dying over stone Whispers all was overthrown Years of labor, night and flame Was it all a hollow game? I leave the badge, I drop the key Ash and doubt walk out with me If that world was built to last Why’s it fading into past? VERSE 2 Sector Seven under town Beat like synths in tunnels down Hands like gears in iron veins Turned the dark to glowing chains Promises of brighter days Vanished in political haze Banners covered what we made All our sweat began to fade PRE-CHORUS Echo asks in empty halls Did our work mean none at all? Were those years in steel and stone Just a spark the wind has blown? CHORUS Neon dying over stone Whispers all was overthrown Years of labor, night and flame Was it all a hollow game? I leave the badge, I drop the key Ash and doubt walk out with me If that world was built to last Why’s it fading into past? BRIDGE (uplifting, expanding) Nothing given turns to dust Energy returns to us I am not their closed design I am pulse and living sign When old lights collapse in night Inner circuits spark to life From the dark a dawn is born Future waits beyond the storm