Year Without Summer

Verse 1

Ash falling on lonely avenues

Two faces flicker by shattered windows

Mid-summer dressed in steel grey skin

Is this how the stories begin?

Breath held

Forgetting warmth we once wielded

People pace the silent street

Everything freezes, everything gone—

Just one word—gone

Pre-Chorus

I remember light, I remember songs

I remember roots growing stubborn and strong

Now, the air is absence, biting through bone

Chills crack the code, even hope is stone

Chorus

It's the year without summer

Shadows stretch long, shadows stretch long

The world recovers, wonders—

How did this all go wrong?

It's the year without summer

Endless winter, sorrow's slow runner

Clouded sun, another day undone

Post-Chorus

Gone, gone, gone

Gone, gone, gone

Verse 2

Memories melt in my mouth, bitter cold

Dreams like icicles, sharp and bold

Couldn’t carry the green from yesterday

Couldn’t save the warmth from slipping away

Maybe the fault sleeps in silent sky

Maybe ash and smoke scrawl the why

Huddled in houses, heartbeats hush

Winter in summer’s place—a silent crush

Alone. Cold. Brave? No sound.

Pre-Chorus

I remember light, I remember songs

I remember thunder in midsummer dawns

Now, nothing blossoms, wilted and dry

Fingers find frost, distant lullaby

Chorus

It's the year without summer

Shadows stretch long, shadows stretch long

The world recovers, wonders—

How did this all go wrong?

It's the year without summer

Endless winter, sorrow's slow runner

Clouded sun, another day undone

Post-Chorus

Gone, gone, gone

Gone, gone, gone

Bridge

Amber leaves never fell

Rivers run slow, secrets they tell

Hearts on hold in unyielding frost

What’s left of warmth is lost

Maybe someday sunflowers return

Maybe love learns to burn

Through snow, through gloom, dark as the dawn

Chorus

It's the year without summer

Shadows stretch long, shadows stretch long

The world recovers, wonders—

How did this all go wrong?

It's the year without summer

Endless winter, sorrow's slow runner

Clouded sun, another day undone

Post-Chorus

Gone, gone, gone

Gone, gone, gone

Outro

Gone, gone, gone

Another year undone

Gone, gone, gone