[Intro]
Dust slips from the alley walls as the city hums above, unseen.
A corridor of stone yawns wider than the heartbeats between sirens.
[Verse 1]
I follow a shadow where the streetlights forget to glow,
A stairwell breathes cold air, winding down to places nobody knows.
Cracks in the pavement whisper names I never learned,
And in the dark, a gate of roots and rain swallows my fear.
[Pre-Chorus]
If I stay above, the secrets starve in silence, hollow and thin,
But if I step through, the city sighs, and I begin.
[Chorus]
I am called to shield this world beneath the grind and glare,
To guard the breath of rivers that run through stone lairs there.
The shield is courage, and the oath is what I wear,
A pulse in the underground where I’m meant to care.
[Verse 2]
The tunnel blooms with cages of light, a bioluminescent sea,
Creatures of clockwork vines drift through the tunnels free.
I meet a girl with lantern eyes who charts the hidden maps,
She says the surface forgets, but I remember the gaps.
[Pre-Chorus]
If I retreat, the realm dissolves into shadows and rumor,
If I stay, I learn to bend the night to my rumor.
[Chorus]
I am called to shield this world beneath the grind and glare,
To guard the breath of rivers that run through stone lairs there.
The shield is courage, and the oath is what I wear,
A pulse in the underground where I’m meant to care.
[Bridge]
Beneath the city’s roar, it waits in patient, secret streams,
A heartbeat carved in stone, a keeper of fragile dreams.
If I falter, they’ll rise in quiet, silver halos of rain,
If I rise, I’ll choose to guard, to heal, to remain.
[Chorus]
I am called to shield this world beneath the grind and glare,
To guard the breath of rivers that run through stone lairs there.
The shield is courage, and the oath is what I wear,
A pulse in the underground where I’m meant to care.
[Outro]
I walk back toward the city with the dawn on my spine,
Two worlds beneath my footsteps, two destinies aligned.
I am the keeper now, in the echoes of the stair,
A guardian of the hidden, a promise made to dare.
