「Shadows in Stone」

Acoustic Ballad, Somber Folk, Epic Cello and Acoustic Guitar Duet Solo

Lyrics:
The dust has settled on the photographs
The faces in the paper-thin glass
They smile like strangers from another life
Before the turning of the fatal knife
I walk the halls where laughter used to bloom
Now just the echoes in an empty room
I try to hold the scent of summer air
But only fragments of the past are there

And every single day begins to feel like stone
Another hour spent in shadows, all alone
I wish I could surrender the burden of the years
Wash away the silence, drown out all the fears
But the weight of what's forgotten is the cost I have to pay
And the light I tried to follow slowly fades away

I sent out warnings on a tide of doubt
But every bridge I built, I burned it out
I traded warmth for something I called gold
A story that was hollow and so cold
Now all the mountains that I climbed and claimed
Are just monuments to battles that were maimed
If I could whisper just one truth to the me of yesterday
I'd tell him that the loving is the only way

And every single day begins to feel like stone
Another hour spent in shadows, all alone
I wish I could surrender the burden of the years
Wash away the silence, drown out all the fears
But the weight of what's forgotten is the cost I have to pay
And the light I tried to follow slowly fades away

Maybe there's a crack in this forgotten wall
A single ray of grace before the curtain falls
Just one last moment to recall the simple start
The unbent compass pointed toward the heart

And every single day begins to feel like stone
Another hour spent in shadows, all alone
I wish I could surrender the burden of the years
Wash away the silence, drown out all the fears
But the weight of what's forgotten is the cost I have to pay
And the light I tried to follow slowly fades away

The light... it slowly fades away...