Mirage after the fire 2 (version 2)

Verse 1 – male vocal

Neon frost on the steel bridge frame

Ghosts of the morning light that I used to chase

Every step into this concrete rain

Feels like a ritual I've been calling back in vain

Copper wires burning where our shadows run

This is where the mythic ends, and I begin again

Static tattoos glowing across my neck and spine

I'm searching for the legend that I left behind

Fading out like a mirage after fire

Burning slower than any winter's desire

Can you hear the engines humming through the bone?

We are the embers that won't go home

Pre-Chorus – male vocal

Hold the current, let it turn to gold

Breathe this heat until the legends unfold

I will not forget what we used to be

In this city of smoke and frozen memory

Can you feel it rising, a war drum in my chest?

I am the mirage after all that's been pressed

Into the steel and stone where I came from

Fading light against the concrete throne

And still I hold on to the fire that we called home

Chorus – male vocal

We are the mirage, burning into dust

Ghosts of summer that I've lost in trust

Every scar is a story carved in the ice

I won't let go till this war drum dies

Hold it close, I can still feel it glow

This is where the mythic ends, and we grow old

Verse 2 – male vocal

Beneath the static that runs through my veins

A war cry echoing across these cold plains

Every copper wire that I used to call home

Now feels like a bridge that I crossed alone

I'm searching for the legend in every face

The ghosts of warriors who chose this endless space

I am the fire that I lit on the river's shore

But it's fading fast, like any myth we've known before

Fading out like the neon light that used to guide me through

I'll hold onto this current till it turns to gold for you

Burning slower than the frost that's rising high

Can you hear the engines humming through my chest?

We are the embers that won't go home yet

Pre-Chorus – male vocal

Hold the current, let it turn to gold

Breathe this heat until the legends unfold

I will not forget what we used to be

In this city of smoke and frozen memory

Can you feel it rising, a war drum in my chest?

We are the mirage after all that's been pressed

Into the steel and stone where I came from

Fading light against the concrete throne

And still I hold on to the fire that we called home

Chorus – male vocal

We are the mirage, burning into dust

Ghosts of summer that I've lost in trust

Every scar is a story carved in the ice

I won't let go till this war drum dies

Hold it close, I can still feel it glow

This is where the mythic ends, and we grow old

Bridge – male vocal

In every neon frost on every steel frame

There's something left of what I used to claim

Not just a memory, but an ember that stays

And though the city moves away from these streets

I will not let go of this burning heat

It is the mythic that still lives inside my bones

And if you're here with me when it finally goes