Sundial in Concrete (version 2)

Verse

Concrete pillar, iron crown

City hums beneath the ground

Sundial carved where daylight bleeds

Marks the hour when streets go still

Copper light upon the steel beams

Every shadow has a name

I don't count what they consider wealth

Just the beat that keeps me whole

Frost line rising on the window glass

Clock hands moving in the past

Some men buy their peace of mind

I spend it on the sunrise time

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the silence turning gold

Every block a story, every stone is told

Something older than this steel and stone

Is waking up before I'm gone

Chorus

Sundial in concrete, rising with the glow

Light cuts through the city where the shadows go

I don't need their currency to know my own worth

This is how I keep the darkness from the earth

Sundial in concrete, burning like a fire

Every minute that the world forgets to acquire

Verse

Streetlight flickers then it's gone

Skyline splits where amber comes on

Tax returns and broken promises

Can't compare to what this hour brings

Towers made of gold and iron dust

Turn to statues when the sun gets lost

I don't need a castle or a crown to trust

The city waking up as one

Pre-Chorus

Can you hear the silence turning gold

Every block a story, every stone is told

Something older than this steel and stone

Is waking up before I'm gone

Chorus

Sundial in concrete, rising with the glow

Light cuts through the city where the shadows go

I don't need their currency to know my own worth

This is how I keep the darkness from the earth

Sundial in concrete, burning like a fire

Every minute that the world forgets to acquire

Bridge

No mansion bought can hold this view

Just the pulse beneath the city's skin anew

I trade the evening for the break of blue

Something deeper than success I choose

This is how the old ones taught us gold

Not in hands, but what we're willing to behold

The skyscrapers will stand when winter falls

But without this hour nothing lasts at all

Outro

Sundial in concrete, rising with the glow

Every minute that the world forgets to acquire