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