WE LEAVE TRACES

Verse 1
You feel the years on your shoulder,
heavy like a load.
Every day you walk a little slower
down the same old road.
You know this life is only once,
a spark before it’s gone,
so you live it like you mean it,
and you carry on.

Pre-Chorus
Still you fight, you don’t surrender,
you don’t turn away.
Time keeps writing on your face again —
and makes you pay.

Chorus
We’ve got a place on the road of stars,
we belong right here.
We leave our traces in the open sky,
so the world can hear.
We don’t just whisper to the wind at night,
we don’t disappear —
we leave our traces in the open sky:
we were here.

Verse 2
Like a river, days keep running,
pulling you along.
Sometimes taking back the gifts you had,
like they were never yours.
Tired eyes watch the sun go down,
tired when it rises too,
but you wake up in the morning
and you do what you must do.

Pre-Chorus
And you fall, and you get up again,
you don’t turn away.
Time keeps writing on your face again —
and makes you pay.

Chorus
We’ve got a place on the road of stars,
we belong right here.
We leave our traces in the open sky,
so the world can hear.
We don’t just whisper to the wind at night,
we don’t disappear —
we leave our traces in the open sky:
we were here.

Bridge
We are dust on the road of stars,
one small note in time.
But without us there’s no melody,
no reason, no rhyme.
On the strings of all existence
every soul is part —
and the song keeps on forever,
even when we’re gone.

Final Chorus
We’ve got a place on the road of stars,
we belong right here.
We leave our traces in the open sky,
so the world can hear.
We don’t just whisper to the wind at night,
we don’t disappear —
we leave our traces in the open sky:
we were here.