Lyrics

Verse 1:
I packed a sunrise in my pocket, left the century behind,
Trading childhood for a promise in the corridors of time,
Watched the cities bloom and crumble, watched the people turn to dust,
Every year another wrinkle in the mirror of my trust.

Pre-Chorus:
I was a boy with fire eyes, chasing dawn across the sand,
Thought the clock would bend if I could just outrun its hand,
I keep reaching for that summer with a shaking, aging hand,
But the days keep getting shorter, and the youth slips like the land.

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Chorus:
I’m running out of sunrise, running out of dawn,
Running out of reasons to keep moving on,
I keep searching for the boy I was before the clocks were wrong,
But every mile I travel, he’s a ghost inside a song.

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Verse 2:
I saw lovers dance at midnight under skies they couldn’t own,
I kissed strangers in the future just to not feel so alone,
I thought time would heal the hunger that kept burning in my bones,
But the child inside me’s crying in the silence I’ve outgrown.

Pre-Chorus:
I’ve been nineteen for a lifetime in the corners of my mind,
Living fast to stay forever in the spark that I can’t find,
But the heartbeat costs a fortune, and the fortune’s made of time,
I can’t buy another moment, can’t erase the fading line.

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Chorus:
I’m running out of sunrise, running out of dawn,
Running out of reasons to keep moving on,
I keep searching for the boy I was before the clocks were wrong,
But every mile I travel, he’s a ghost inside a song.

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Bridge:
They said youth was just a feeling, but it’s hidden in the rain,
In the laughter of the morning, in the whispers of the pain,
I keep begging stars for mercy, but they’re burning all the same,
I keep leaving who I was, just to keep on saying my name.

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Breakdown (soft, piano over synth pad):
I saw the child in a mirror, in the lines around my eyes,
He said, “You’ve been here the whole time, even as the old man cries.”
I keep searching for tomorrow, I keep bleeding out the skies,
But the youth I thought was leaving never truly says goodbye.

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Final Chorus (lift, layered harmonies, emotional):
I’m running out of sunrise, but the dawn is in my chest,
Running out of reasons, but the ache feels like a guest,
I’m still holding every promise that the boy inside confessed,
I’m a man who keeps on walking, carrying the child who never left.

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Outro (quiet, synth fade, layered vocal echo):
In the rivers of the ages, in the morning’s quiet breath,
I have found the youth inside me in the footsteps toward my death,
Time can take the sunrise, time can steal the dawn,
But the boy inside keeps singing, even when the years are gone.