From the recording The Gods Stood Up
Lyrics
[VERSE 1]
The ground began to whisper
before we heard the roar
a trembling in the timbers
like a warning from the floor
The sky turned cold and hollow
the birds forgot to fly
and every breath we borrowed
felt stolen from the night
[PRE‑CHORUS]
We knew it in our bones
before the shadows touched the door—
whatever we had feared
was already in the walls
[CHORUS]
So run, run, run
don’t look behind you
The dark we tried to name
has finally found you
If we stay one heartbeat more
we’ll vanish with the dawn
Run, run, run—
the last light’s gone
[VERSE 2]
The air was thick with crying
the children couldn’t breathe
the elders clutched their memories
like leaves they couldn’t keep
My mother’s hands were shaking
as she pushed me through the crowd—
“I’ll hold the dark a moment
but you must not turn around.”
[PRE‑CHORUS]
Her voice became a lantern
in a world that lost its flame
and every step I took
felt like walking out of faith
[CHORUS]
So run, run, run
don’t look behind you
The dark we tried to name
has finally found you
If we stay one heartbeat more
we’ll vanish with the dawn
Run, run, run—
the last light’s gone
[BRIDGE]
A tear in space was waiting
a mouth of starless night
a doorway made of nothing
but my mother’s sacrifice
I stepped into the silence
felt the world fall out of reach—
a stranger in a darkness
that had never heard my name
[VERSE 3]
The new land felt like winter
even under summer skies
the trees spoke foreign secrets
the rivers had strange eyes
We stood there, lost and shaking
with the terror still inside—
alive, but not unbroken
saved, but not untouched by night
[FINAL CHORUS]
We ran, we lived
but oh, the cost was burning
The home we loved
will never stop returning
We crossed into the dark
and found another dawn—
we lived, we lived…
but everything is gone