(Intro)

Heavy steps on hollow ground

Built on the echoes of past defiance

No reflection, no reckoning

Only the march forward, unyielding

Words sharpened into steel

Striking without thought, without aim

The fortress of the self stands tall

But the walls crack from within

(Pre-Chorus)

Conviction without wisdom

Blind strength rotting from the core

(Chorus)

Wretched pride, the chains unseen

Binding the mind, forging the weight

Wretched pride, the walls collapse

No enemy left, only the ruin inside

The path once clear, now fractured

Each step heavier, the ground unstable

A war waged within, unseen, unheard

The mind turns against itself

(Pre-Chorus)

Conviction without wisdom

Blind strength rotting from the core

(Chorus)

Wretched pride, the chains unseen

Binding the mind, forging the weight

Wretched pride, the walls collapse

No enemy left, only the ruin inside

(Bridge)

The storm rises, but none will bow

No surrender, no retreat

Only the slow erosion of will

As the fortress crumbles into dust

(Outro)

No victors, no salvation

Only silence, only dust

The war was never fought outside

It was lost within from the start

From the start

The war was never fought outside

It was lost within from the start