The Silent River

Lyrics

(Verse 1)
Beneath the dunes the old ones spoke
Of hidden streams no map could hold
A river sleeping under stone
Where lost horizons drift alone
No mountain fed its silent veins
No ocean called its ancient name
It flowed beneath forgotten lands
Beyond the reach of mortal hands
(Verse 2)
I crossed the plains of salt and dust
Past shattered towers turned to rust
Through empty temples carved by sand
Where shadows moved without command
The desert sky like molten bronze
Watched silent centuries come and gone
My footsteps vanished in the wind
Like all the places I had been
(Pre-Chorus)
They said its waters carried sight
Not of tomorrow, but hidden lives
The roads abandoned long ago
The selves we lose and never know
(Chorus)
Deep below the desert veins
The silent river called my name
Every current pulled apart
The thousand chambers of my heart
I drank the water cold as stars
Saw all I was and all we are
Beneath the sands where silence runs
Flow endless rivers never known
(Verse 3)
At last beneath obsidian stone
I found the place the myths had shown
No throne of gold
No sacred fire
Only black water flowing wide
Its surface held no mirrored face
But fractured lives through time and space
A thousand roads beneath one sky
A thousand ways for me to die
(Bridge – espaço para instrumental grande antes de entrar voz)
I saw the hand I never held
The distant home I never built
The words I buried in my chest
The road abandoned for the next
I saw the man I could become
The wars I'd lose
The loves undone
And every ghost dissolved the same
Like ash returning into flame
(Breakdown / climão)
No hidden truth beneath the sand
No unseen kingdom carved by hands
The river showed no grand design
Only the weight
Of what is mine
(Final Chorus)
Deep below the desert veins
The silent river called my name
Every current pulled apart
The thousand chambers of my heart
I left the water still unknown
No wiser now than when I'd come
Some truths beneath the silence stay
Flowing unseen
And far away