Weight of the Mountain

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“Altitude Sickness (The Durand Line)”

Verse 1

We came for the light on the frozen spine,

Two smiles framed by the borderline.

Olga laughs, “Make it gold, make it shine,”

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Our shadows fall where maps don’t agree,

Wind cuts thin as a memory.

He walks behind with everything—

Silent steps, carrying.

Pre-Chorus

He says, “Careful where the white lines blur,

Some lines you cross… don’t answer.”

Chorus

Altitude sickness, breath runs thin,

Chasing the sky, forgetting the skin.

One step wrong and you’re gone, out of time—

No signal beyond the Durand Line.

Verse 2

We stop again for another frame,

Same bright lips, different name.

“Where’s my tank?” — “Don’t play that game,”

Voices crack in the mountain’s flame.

He turns, eyes tired, hands like stone,

Kids at home, five months alone.

School unpaid, hope overdrawn—

Still he carries us on.

Pre-Chorus

He says, “Please, stop—just hear me now,

The mountain keeps what you allow.”

Chorus

Altitude sickness, hearts out of sync,

Fighting for air on the edge of the brink.

One slip down and you’re lost, no sign—

No rescue beyond the Durand Line.

Bridge

On his phone—through broken words,

A falling rope, a silent world.

A couple frozen mid-descent,

Love undone by accident.

We don’t speak, the wind replies,

Filters fade from both our eyes.

Final Chorus

Altitude sickness, truth cuts clean,

Nothing’s as safe as it looks on a screen.

One step back from the thin white line—

We’re still alive on the Durand Line.

Outro

No more posts, no perfect frame,

Just breath… and the weight of a name.