Built From What Was Left

Empty roads grow back green

Like they never knew they’d been seen

Cities breathe without a sound

While we move through hollow ground

No names yet, no reason to ask

No promises set, just finish the task

Just miles in mud, heads staying low

Borrowed time on a road we don’t know

You were a job, a closed-mouth deal

Hands off, eyes forward, don’t let it get real

I learned your footsteps, you learned my rules

We shared the quiet, we shared the fuel

Every night I feel it near

Every dawn I feel the fear

I keep saying don’t hold on

But I’ve been holding all along

Fungus talks through the ground

Every click is tracking sound

A world of infection — filled with neglect

We built a bond from what was left

We weren’t blood — our fates were cast

Just two survivors walking past

The end of the world — surrounded by death

We built a bond from what was left

You don’t cough when spores come down

You don’t turn when the lights go out

They all see a cure in your veins

I just see a kid in pain

They call you hope, they call you proof

They call your blood a holy truth

They say it’s all worth the cost

But harming you is a line I won’t cross

I taught you where to place your feet

You taught me how to finally sleep

I swore I wouldn’t feel again

Now fear of loss cuts deeper in

Fungus talks through the ground

Every click is tracking sound

A world of infection — filled with neglect

We built a bond from what was left

We weren’t blood — our fates were cast

Just two survivors walking past

The end of the world — surrounded by death

We built a bond from what was left

Runners twitch when the echoes start

Stalkers wait where the shadows part

Clickers count every broken tone

Blind — but never alone

Hold still — don’t move

Hold still — don’t prove

Hold tight — kill the light

If one hears us, they all bite

Fungus talks through the ground

Every click is tracking sound

A world of infection — filled with neglect

We built a bond from what was left

We weren’t blood — our fates were cast

Just two survivors walking past

The end of the world — surrounded by death

We built a bond from what was left

Swear to me it’s true

I swear I’ll see it through

At the end of the world

I’ll protect you