The City is Empty

from Darker Days by Pale Shade

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I still can’t catch my breath
Choking on the words once said
We’d part ways when we’re dead
Only echoes in my head
This city is empty
Haunted by the ghost of a memory
I used to feel alive here
Now it feels like I died here

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from Darker Days, released March 10, 2023

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Pretty slow, really loud.

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