Chapter 8 - I Carry It Still

Описание: Music from High Country Extinction’s album ‘A Compendium’.

When survival offers no promise of meaning or reward, what keeps you choosing to move forward anyway?

Lyrics:


[Verse]
The road keeps stretching past what I can see
Every mile written into memory
Nothing left except the weight I bear
Nothing gained except that I am still here

The world fell quiet long before the flame
Still I walk it speaking no one’s name
Every step a vow I never said
Every breath a promise not yet dead

[Pre-Chorus]
I don’t stand because I’m strong
I stand because I’m not done

[Chorus]
I will carry what remains
Through the ash and through the rain
Even when the ground gives way
I will carry it the same

If the light is almost gone
If the night is stretching long
I will walk it all the way
I am not unbreakable
But I stay


[Verse]
The fire thins but never disappears
It moves with me through hunger and through fear
I don’t know what waits beyond this line
Only that I won’t leave it behind

Every ruin asks me to forget
I answer with the steps I haven’t left
This is not a victory I claim
It is only motion through the pain


[Pre-Chorus]
I don’t rise above the dust
I rise because I must


[Chorus]
I will carry what remains
Through the ash and through the rain
Even when the ground gives way
I will carry it the same

If the light is almost gone
If the night is stretching long
I will walk it all the way
I am not unbreakable
But I stay


[Chorus]
I will carry what remains
Not for glory, not for gain
Every step is still a choice
Even when I shake

I am not unbreakable
I am still awake