The Weight of Ages

WHEEL OF DAYS

Intro

Distorted sitar-like guitar drone, slow tension build

Verse 1

I was a soldier on a burning plain

Watched whole cities fall like summer rain

Spoke his prayers, swallowed all his debt

And I’m still paying for it yet

Verse 2

I wore a crown in Babylon’s last light

Begged for coins in some forgotten night

This wheel don’t care about who I was

It just keeps turning ‘cause it must

Pre-Chorus

Everything I did

Buried in the dark

Comes around

Leaves its mark

Chorus

The wheel of days keeps turning without mercy

Grinds every king and saint to dust

Everything you gave in another lifetime

Is coming back for you through us

Verse 3

There’s a woman standing by the shore

I swear I’ve loved her all my lives before

She don’t know me, not yet, not quite

But something there will feel… not right

Pre-Chorus

Everything I did

Buried in the dark

Comes around

Leaves its mark

Chorus

The wheel of days keeps turning without mercy

Grinds every king and saint to dust

Everything you gave in another lifetime

Is coming back for you through us

Bridge / Drop

Piano + sax, exposed and haunting

I’ve been the flood

I’ve been the fire

I’ve been the hand

That built the pyre

And everything I burned away

Still lives in someone else today

The wheel don’t forget your name

It just forgets your face

Breakdown

Turning… turning… turning…

(It never stops)

Turning… turning… turning…

Final Chorus

The wheel of days keeps turning without mercy

Grinds every king and saint to dust

Everything you gave in another lifetime

Is coming back for you through us

Outro

Fade, whispered vocal

Circling back…

Yeah… it’s all coming back…