Prompt:

### [Intro] Time slips between my fingers like a language I once knew The hourglass lies shattered beneath the weight of all I have become Somewhere, a younger heart is calling from the ruins of my name And I can scarcely tell if I am listening or merely dreaming ### [Verse I] I have forgotten the fragrance that lingered upon your skin The cadence of your laughter has dissolved into the silence Your smile remains a shape behind the curtains of my mind A dying constellation in a sky that no longer answers ### [Chorus I] And time will take the roses, leave the thorns within my soul While all the dreams I cherished turn to ashes, cold and old I carve your name in stone, against the darkness of the night But morning comes to claim it, and devours what was bright ### [Verse II] There was a boy who trusted every dawn to bring him wonder Who wore his faith in life as though it were an unbreakable armour He thought that love could conquer what the years would never pardon And that happiness was waiting somewhere beyond the farthest horizon ### [Chorus II] Now every road grows narrower, every sky forgets its blue And all the words I lived for have become a ghostly hue I carve the past in stone, though the stone itself must fall For nothing stands forever, and the void outlives us all ### [Verse III] I wake because the morning comes, not because I wish to rise I follow nameless hours through the corridors of habit My heart performs its ancient rites, obedient to the pulse of living While something deep within me lies unmoving, past all grieving ### [Chorus III] And I am drifting farther where the hollow heavens weep Where love becomes an echo that the years refuse to keep I carve my fading memories where no hand can reach the wall Yet time shall breach the fortress, and erase them all ### [Bridge] If I could hold a single moment without watching it decay I would gather every fragment that the years have swept away The warmth of your embrace, the scent of rain upon your hair The laughter of a younger self who never knew despair But the future has a thousand hands, and every one is pulling It drags me from the sacred ground where all my ghosts lie sleeping And I, who once believed that hope could outlive any sorrow Am learning how to disappear into the shape of every tomorrow ### [Guitar solo] ### [Chorus IV] So let the stone bear witness to the life I could not save To the boy who chased the sunrise, now a stranger to his grave I have carved what little remains before the dark descends But the future keeps on calling, and the past no longer mends ### [Outro] The fragrance is forgotten The laughter has no face Love wanders through my silence A ghost without a place And somewhere in the distance, the boy I was still waits With open hands and shining eyes, before the world grew late I leave his name upon the stone, beneath a dying sky As hope exhales its final breath, and something beautiful must die