Lyrics

### Intro
(Fingerstyle guitar in E minor, slow and contemplative)

## Verse 1
Ten years of silence, ten years of pain
Staring at your portrait through the window pane
A servant's daughter knocked upon my door
Speaking words I haven't heard before

### Verse 2
She said "Sir, this boy, he lived with me"
My heart stopped beating, could it really be?
Her young voice trembling in the morning light
Brought back memories from that endless night

### Chorus
Echoes of dawn, breaking through my sorrow
Maybe there's hope for a new tomorrow
Ten years of darkness, now a glimmer shows
Echoes of dawn, where the cold wind blows

### Verse 3
Your face in that frame, frozen in time
While I've been drowning in this grief of mine
But something shifted when she spoke your name
Nothing will be, nothing will be the same

### Chorus
Echoes of dawn, breaking through my sorrow
Maybe there's hope for a new tomorrow
Ten years of darkness, now a glimmer shows
Echoes of dawn, where the cold wind blows

### Solo
(Emotional guitar solo with bending and vibrato, expressing years of bottled grief)

### Bridge
I've been lost in shadows, walking through the pain
But her words, they wash over me like gentle rain
Maybe it's time to let the daylight in
Maybe it's time to learn to live again

### Verse 4
Still I whisper to your picture on the wall
Wondering if you can hear me at all
That young girl's visit stirred something deep inside
A crack in the armor where my heart can't hide

### Chorus
Echoes of dawn, breaking through my sorrow
Maybe there's hope for a new tomorrow
Ten years of darkness, now a glimmer shows
Echoes of dawn, where the cold wind blows

### Outro
(Guitar fades with a final contemplative phrase, resolving on a major chord)