Verse 1 I thought a powerful love was a shield against harm, That your eyes would pull me back from the water's edge. I dissolved into you, forgetting who I was, Believing a man is a savior—that this was the good news. But illusions shatter against the hard asphalt of the road When a stranger’s boot steps into your home. Chorus A powerful love for another means giving up on yourself. It is voluntary captivity and a battle lost. It’s time to wake up and simply walk on, Step by step, toward my dream, following my own beacon. To live my own life, not in someone else’s shadow, To seek my own meaning and greet my own dawn. Verse 2 Your love won’t save us when, in one dark hour, A police officer takes the life of one of us. When a job is lost in disgrace and the world collapses, And the one who pulled the trigger is the system’s idol. I stand in a cold, unfamiliar corner of the cemetery, While the killer in uniform calmly drinks coffee back at base. He walks the same streets, he goes on living, While seven men gang up on someone disabled who isn't fighting back. Chorus A powerful love for another means giving up on yourself. It is voluntary captivity and a battle lost. It’s time to wake up and simply walk on, Step by step, toward my dream, following my own beacon. To live my own life, not in someone else’s shadow, To seek my own meaning and greet my own dawn. Bridge Love won't help here. It won’t hold back the doctor Who, in a moment of haste, kills your loved one by mistake. It won’t stop the cancer, nor keep the breath in the chest. All the pain lies within your soul, and you walk the path alone. And the man you love won’t stand as a wall against loss— He might simply leave, closing the door behind him. To step toward a new, beautiful cover-girl model, Or toward someone more convenient, where the path is easier and simpler, Where there are no loved ones of yours, no sickness, no mourning ribbons... The man will leave. The whole story will change. Outro All the pain is in the heart. No one is coming to the rescue. You must learn to breathe and rise again on your own. Step by step. Defying fate. The journey of finding meaning. A return to yourself.
