Verse 1 (sung)

Lantern light on the crooked lane

Cold wind drifting with the rain

Footsteps echo through the square

Like a memory hanging in the air

Windows glow in fading gold

Stories in the brickwork old

Every shadow passing by

Seems to know the reason why

Chorus (sung)

Down by the river of dust we roam

Where the wandering hearts call home

Through the dark and through the gray

Something pulls us on our way

When the silent lanterns shine

Through the branches of the vine

Every road beneath the sky

Asks the night the reason why

Rap Verse

Walking through a town where the echoes still breathe

Every stone got a story underneath

Cold air moving through the alleyway bends

Every lost road turning back again

Moonlight cutting through the iron and glass

Every quiet corner holding the past

Step by step through the midnight air

You feel that presence but nobody’s there

Mind like a map of the paths I’ve crossed

Every direction where the signal got lost

Still I wander through the shifting night

Following shadows toward the light

Bridge (half-sung / spoken)

Listen when the dark runs deep

The quiet hills begin to speak

Every secret left behind

Finds a doorway in the mind

Final Chorus (sung)

Down by the river of dust we stay

Watching night dissolve to day

Every whisper in the wind

Feels like something calling in

When the lanterns fade from view

Morning breaks the world in two

Every road we wandered through

Was leading me to you