Golden Walls

Lyrics

Iron in the dawn
Smoke across the wires
Every road I knew
Led into the fire

Concrete sky above
Cold fluorescent rain
We were born as echoes
Stamped with borrowed names

I counted all the windows
Like stars in a cage
Every clock kept feeding
The mouth of the machine

And the city hums
Like a sleeping god
Breathing through the cables
Underneath my blood

Oh—
Can you hear the chains dissolve?

Oh—
Can you feel the distant shore?

I run through the silence
With the wolves at my heels

Half of me is leaving
Half refuses to heal

Oh—
If freedom is a desert
Why do I still crawl?

Old ghosts in the stations
Faces made of dust
Dreams hung from the ceiling
Rusting into rust

I remember daylight
Falling through the trees
Before the towers taught us
How to bow and breathe

Now the horizon trembles
Like glass in the storm
And every step forward
Feels like losing home

Still the night calls
Through the shattered rails
Soft as a prayer
Sharp as betrayal

Oh—
Can you hear the chains dissolve?

Oh—
Can you feel the distant shore?

I run through the silence
With the wolves at my heels

Half of me is leaving
Half refuses to heal

Oh—
If freedom is a desert
Why do I still crawl?

Oh—
Watch the empire fade to ash

Oh—
Hear the ocean flood the halls

I carried these ruins
Like stones in my lungs

A king without kingdom
A war never won

Oh—
If I vanish in the wildfire
Will the sky recall my name?

Oh—
If I tear apart the system
Will I become the same?

Iron in the dawn
Smoke across the wires
A gate
Still opens slow