The Glass Storm

Lyrics

Soft Piano Intro
(Verse 1)
The old men watched the northern sky
Where fractures spread through frozen light
No thunder spoke
No warning came
Only silence learning our names
They said the storm returns in time
To strip the world of what survives
Not flesh
Not stone
Not blood nor bone
Only memory
(Verse 2)
First vanished songs no voice recalled
Then cities lost what built their walls
Photographs held forgotten eyes
Familiar ghosts no one could name
The books grew pale
The records thinned
Like history erased from skin
Cello Enters
(Pre-Chorus)
Glass descended from shattered stars
Soft as snow
Sharp as loss
The sky grew pale
The silence spread
Like winter moving through the dead
(Chorus)
Let the glass sky fall again
Carry names beyond the wind
Take the wars
Take what remains
Leave me one voice I still can claim
When memory breaks
When shadows stay
Who are we
When names decay
Gradual Build
(Verse 3)
I found your picture by the stairs
Your face still there
Your name erased
I held the frame with shaking hands
Like holding something made of sand
The house remained
The chair
The walls
But time had taken something small
And everything collapsed with it
Atmospheric Instrumental
(Piano + cello + fretless bass slowly entering)
(Bridge)
I carved your name into the stone
Now stone forgets what hands have known
I hear your voice through empty halls
But time remembers nothing now
I saw your shadow near the door
Felt your absence cross the floor
I knew I loved you
Still somehow
The storm had taken why
Not how
Emotional Climax
(Piano opens / percussion enters / strings rise / vocal expands)
(Final Chorus)
Let the glass sky fall again
Carry names beyond the wind
Take the wars
Take what remains
I will guard what still survives
If memory breaks
If shadows stay
If silence swallows every name
I'll speak yours softly
Through the storm
Until my own is washed away
Outro — piano alone
One voice remained
Beneath the glass
(final chord)