December Ballad

[Verse 1]
December winds, the year was fading
1967, the night was waiting
A song was playing, soft and true
Its echo carried through the crew

She walked in silence, eyes of flame
No architect, no borrowed name
A phantom sniper, veiled in night
Her shadow danced with mortal fight

[Pre-Chorus]
Eight thousand souls beneath her aim
The jungle whispered of her fame
But history locked the tale away
Until the dawn unsealed that day

[Chorus]
December's ballad, yours and mine
December's ballad, through the vine
The past returns, a ghostly sign
December's ballad, yours and mine
(ours and mine)

[Verse 2]
And still the music lingers near
A haunting hymn we used to hear
No medals bright, no victory cry
Just mothers asking why, why, why

The dust still clings to every page
The smoke still lives inside the cage
She was a shadow, then a spark
A name the papers left in dark

[Pre-Chorus]
Eight thousand souls beneath her aim
The jungle whispered of her fame
But history locked the tale away
Until the dawn unsealed that day

[Chorus]
December's ballad, yours and mine
December's ballad, through the vine
The past returns, a ghostly sign
December's ballad, yours and mine
(ours and mine)

[Bridge]
No, we don't sing for guns and fire
We sing for what they tore from life
For every voice the world forgot
For every child left cold and lost

[Final Chorus]
December's ballad, yours and mine
December's ballad, through the vine
The past returns, a ghostly sign
December's ballad, yours and mine
(ours and mine)