Sunrise Over Bayon

[Verse 1]
First light breaks across the ancient stones
Two hundred faces carved in whispered tones
The jungle mist is lifting slow and sweet
Where centuries of silence gently meet

Morning paints the smiles in shades of gold
Stories that these weathered walls have told
I'm standing where the kings once stood in prayer
With nothing but the temple and the air

[Chorus]
Sunrise over Bayon, light through the haze
Sunrise over Bayon, lost in the gaze
Of faces watching from another time
Their silence speaks in every ray that climbs
Sunrise over Bayon

[Verse 2]
Moss and root entwined in slow embrace
Nature claiming back this sacred place
But still the smiles remain through wind and rain
A thousand years of joy and love and pain

Birds awaken in the canopy
Singing songs of what this used to be
A city of a million souls that thrived
Their spirit in these temple walls survived

[Chorus]
Sunrise over Bayon, light through the haze
Sunrise over Bayon, lost in the gaze
Of faces watching from another time
Their silence speaks in every ray that climbs
Sunrise over Bayon

[Bridge]
I close my eyes and feel the centuries flow
The Khmer Empire's afterglow
Every face a meditation
On the beauty of creation

[Verse 3]
The tourists haven't found this spot just yet
This early morning moment mine to get
I breathe it in, the incense and the dew
The oldest kind of wonder feeling new

Someday I'll return to chase this light
But right now everything is pure and right
The sun climbs higher, shadows start to play
Another dawn in Angkor on its way

[Chorus]
Sunrise over Bayon, light through the haze
Sunrise over Bayon, lost in the gaze
Of faces watching from another time
Their silence speaks in every ray that climbs
Sunrise over Bayon

[Outro]
Sunrise over Bayon... light through the haze...