Amber in the Dark

Intro – whispered, distant

Can't find sleep...

Have I lost it somewhere?

Or is it looking for me

In a story I no longer share?

I'm tired of searching...

So down I go,

Deeper and deeper,

Where the quiet takes hold.

Verse 1

Amber in the dark,

A light from afar,

I follow its glow

But I don't know where you are.

Why does everybody disappear?

Why am I the only one still here?

All these familiar faces

Turning into empty spaces.

I've been searching for a place

Where yesterday still feels the same,

But the further that I go,

The less of me I seem to know.

Pre-Chorus

Maybe I missed the turning point,

Maybe I lost the thread,

Maybe all the things I'm chasing

Are already gone instead.

Chorus

And we're all just passing through,

With nothing certain left to hold onto.

Stopping just to mend the pieces,

Hiding all the cracks and creases.

Tell me, what's the point of going on

When there's no one left to carry on the broken pieces.

We're just headlights fading into the night,

One more broken thing we're trying to make right.

Verse 2

Maybe I'm the one who disappeared,

The one who slowly left without a word.

Maybe I'm the joke I never understood,

Still looking back when I know I never should.

There's no map, no chartered road,

No promised place we're meant to go.

Just different paths beneath the sky,

And the same horizon waiting down the line.

Pre-Chorus 2

I keep looking through the rearview,

For the ones I couldn't save.

But the road keeps moving forward,

And the past won't turn this way.

Chorus

And we're all just passing through,

With nothing certain left to hold onto.

Stopping just to mend the pieces,

Hiding all the cracks and creases.

Tell me, what's the point of going on

When there's no one left to carry on the broken pieces?

We're just headlights fading into the night,

One more broken thing we're trying to make right.

Bridge – stripped down, almost spoken

Perhaps we're not lost...

Perhaps this is all there is.

A thousand little departures,

A thousand reasons to exist.

We meet, we leave,

We break, we heal.

We call it living,

Just to make it feel real.

And somewhere down this endless road,

There's a place we all must go.

Final Chorus – full instrumentation

We're all just passing through!

Still searching for something true!

Building shelter from the weather,

Pretending we can hold forever.

And if there's no one left beside me,

I'll keep the amber light in sight.

Even if it fades tomorrow,

I'll follow it into the night.

Outro – fading synth and distant vocals

Can't find sleep...

Maybe sleep found me.

Maybe I've been running

From the person I used to be.

Amber in the dark...

A light from afar...

And slowly...

I let go.