"In the Shadows" by Kalandra captures the ache of watching hope dissolve as a broken world closes in. The plea to be carried away from a reality that unfolds like a fever dream meets the uneasy suspicion that hidden truths and avoided pain only grow monstrous in the dark. Warnings were sounded, yet the song finds itself marching and falling, caught between mending and ending. The repeated image of shadows swallowing hopes for the new year and the future turns avoidance into a quiet sickness, and the only certainty left is that everyone is hurting.
In the Shadows Lyrics by Kalandra
Take me away from here
This world is deeply broken
The hopes I held for the new year
All dissolve in the shadows
All dissolve in the shadows
Maybe it’s a mirror
Of everything we don’t say
Maybe the monsters grow larger
If we choose to look away
There were warnings
Whistles calling
Now we’re marching
And we’re falling
Are we mending?
Is it ending?
All I’m learning:
We’re all hurting
Take me away from here
This world unfolds like a fever dream
The hopes I held for my future
All dissolve in the shadows
All dissolve in the shadows
Maybe it’s a sickness
Buried in secrecy
Silently growing larger
‘Til one day we can’t help but see
There were warnings
Whistles calling
Now we’re marching
And we’re falling
Are we mending?
Is it ending?
All I’m learning:
We’re all hurting
