KAGEHA – Toward The Blade (Defeat)

Toward The Blade — Defeat Defeat is not the end. A song about facing failure, accepting defeat, and finding the strength to stand again. Blending Japanese instruments with powerful hard rock, KAGEHA tells the story of a warrior who has lost the battle — but not his will to go on. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Lyrics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The dust has settled on the ground No victory, no cheering sound My hands are empty, cold and still I gave my all It wasn’t enough I watched it all slip out of reach No one to blame No words to speak The blade beside me tells the truth I fought I failed I lost I thought my will would be enough I thought these hands could hold it all But here I am With what remains And every choice I made This is defeat I know it now No excuse No way around I lost the ground beneath my feet I know exactly what this means No place to hide No one to blame I’ll carry what is mine to take I will not say that I have won But I’m still here I’m not done The ones I could not bring back home Still cross my mind when I’m alone Every promise left undone Every face Every one I ask myself what I missed What I should have seen before There is no answer waiting here Only what I know for sure There is no honor in a lie So I won’t look the other way I failed I know I won’t deny What happened here today This is defeat I know it now No excuse No way around I lost the ground beneath my feet I know exactly what this means No place to hide No one to blame I’ll carry what is mine to take I will not say that I have won But I’m still here I’m not done Leave the blade there in the dirt Let the silence have its turn No battle cry No words of pride Nothing left for me to hide If I rise It won’t undo What I lost What I failed to do This is defeat I know it now I won’t turn away My knees are down My strength is gone But something in me still holds on No victory No battle cry No promise I’ll be alright Just one more breath One hand outstretched Toward the blade Not yet. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Two voices. One journey. Japanese Instruments × Hard Rock #KAGEHA #TowardTheBlade #JapaneseRock #HardRock #SamuraiRock #JapaneseInstruments