Pathfinder (feat. Anna Murphy & Emilia Amper)

I knew the time was growing near

As the faces and their names all disappear

Far beyond what I have lost

Almost loved again

As fate washed the shame away

Saved from one more day

Promise me no rest

I'll be there as I should

And the walls I built are crumbling into my grave

Change the light of today

I'm free from the wind and the rain

Footfalls found courage and strength

I've found my way

Fall closest to truth

When I've none left to lose

All roads are the same path you choose

I know the time will be over

Yet some parts remain of the songs I'll sing

I fear last horizons

And the full moon descending

To darkness incomplete

When your life flashes before you

Searching for your terms to come to

When you've all but disappeared

Hearts shall nurture morning glories

In no never-ending stories

So take your stab at fate

Change the light of today

I'm free from the wind and the rain

Footfalls found courage and strength

I've found my way

Fall closest to truth

When I've none left to lose

All roads are the same path you choose

On a way through a layered wood

We cease not our steps

Our journeys have no ends but their last

An enigmatic place this is

A blank slate on a sea of drawings

Nurtured in trodden earth of pain and struggle

And quenched in the tears of forgotten suns

Forgotten sorrows

Forgotten lives

Tomorrow, can any of us be more than a footnote in a better story

A warning in another's lesson?

Are we too vain to think we deserve to be?

Some paths I have seen lead up to gilded perches

A rare glimpse at that tangled atlas we all wish we knew so well

Some slant deep beneath the roots of clarity

A treacherous end to the misguided

That we may measure our mistakes against theirs

Distinguished and a bit more alone

Come find me in a song somewhere

I'd like to believe a part of me will always live through them

I'd like to believe in anything at all

But there's just too much I haven't seen yet

The vast majority of our time we shall spend

Tangling among the paths in the dead middle of existence

Marking the accidentals that steer us toward our final destination

The road goes on forever

Others will walk it when we are gone

Make the most of every step

For the final place your feet will rest

Is only a single beat of the march

Believing can't seal our trust

That ways will keep weaving for all of us

As we reach our end of forever

The void swallows up our lives

In the ages of the ageless

Waiting 'til the leaves of fall

Shed their tears to know they're real

As time endangers us all

Closest to dawn when hope is lost

All caught up in death and fabled hopes

And wasting your breath for paper thrones

All fears' desperate paradises known

Carving your names in empty tomes

Your stories are over as begun

With bodies below, you'll leave but one

Phrase to be read under the sun

An epitaph true of all you've done

The narrowest paths will fade away

Connected to nil, they'll leave no trace

Intersecting lines are face to grace

A monument time cannot erase

Erase the gray yesterdays

Let memories not go to waste

Fixated on somber dusk

When shadows' true worth are as Love's

Veils in the colors of night

Beauty as just out of sight

All epochs the age of your life

Change the key of the rain

Make the world like the place

You'd rather wander

In the apsis of a path unknown