Silhouette

(album: The Saberlight Chronicles - 2022)

I'm a silhouette of who I was
Across from flames that spark the doubts and hopes and echoes of
A silhouette that looks like me
Burning hope to keep us tangible 'til dawn

Twilight sits beside me
Where company should be
Let the stars put out my hope
And in their place, light me

Silhouette, become my statuette
Replace this chest of mine
Take stone for the ash inside
Silhouette, live now at my behest
This burden consecrate
A statue in my place

If I ever lack, then who will carry on?
Return to the eye, oh tear, foregone

If I'm an echo of those better things
Then my sound is halfway drowned by silence answering
And now figure in the bitter fray
Come what may, war or rain, I'll hear you echoing

Twilight sits beside me
Where company should be
Let the stars put out my hope
And in their place, light me

Silhouette, become my statuette
Replace this chest of mine
Take stone for the ash inside
Silhouette, live now at my behest
This burden consecrate
A statue in my place

To fade or fight through
The final throes of my due
If I'm alive, then life I can't refuse

Silhouette, become my statuette
Replace this chest of mine
Take stone for the ash inside
Silhouette, live now at my behest
This burden consecrate
A statue in my

Silhouette, become my statuette
Replace this chest of mine
Take stone for the ash inside
Silhouette, live now at my behest
This burden consecrate
A statue in my place