Shadowverse

"Shadowverse"
Single by The Midnight
from the album Syndicate
Released	August 1, 2025 (2025-08-01)
Length	4:56
Label	Ultra
Songwriter(s)	Tim McEwan Tyler Lyle Daniel Nakamura Ben Thompson
Producer(s)	Tim McEwan NEST Acoustics
Syndicate track listing
Syndicate "Syndicate (Intro)" "Shadowverse" "Runaways" "Friction" "The Right Way" "Afterglow pt. 1" "Digital Dreams" "Sentinels" "Chariot" "First Night in Paris" "Afterglow pt. 2" "Fatal Obsession" "Quiet Earth" "Long Island" "Love is an Ocean" "Sanctuary" "Summer's Ending Soon"
The Midnight singles chronology
Digital Dreams (2025) Shadowverse (2025)

Shadowverse is an song by The Midnight. It is the fourth single and second track from their album Syndicate. The single was released on August 1, 2025.

The song was written by band members Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan alongside Daniel Nakamura and Ben Thompson. It was produced by McEwan. It has a running time of four minutes and 56 seconds and is in the key of E minor.

Lyrics

In the first simulation
Thought becomes form
A cell grows a mind
A heart starts to burn
The pupil shows promise
Kill him again
It's a cold dialectic
May he rise in the end

From the guillotine
To the chalk outline
He's always hanging from the same rope
He'd been trying to climb

When you're up on the wire
And you can't commit
And you can't hold the tension
I guess that's it

You've had a thousand lives
Now you're down to one
Trying to survive
In the shadowverse

Every borderland
Every hungry wolf
Now to make your stand
In the shadowverse

Then he's a crusader
With a grail to find
But he's got no sword
And there's not much time

Then he's a warrior chieftain
A violent man
As she cries on the phone
He does not understand

Then he's Achilles
Who takes off his ring
In a New York penthouse
While she's packing her things

Now up on the wire
If you can't commit
And you can't hold the tension
I guess that's it

You've had a thousand lives
Now you're down to one
Trying to survive
In the shadowverse

Every borderland
Every hungry wolf
Now to make your stand
In the shadowverse

You've had a thousand lives
Now you're down to one
Trying to survive
In the shadowverse

Every borderland
Every hungry wolf
Now to make your stand
In the shadowverse

Out of time
Out of time and fading
Out of time
Empty hearts waiting

You've had a thousand lives
Now you're down to one
Trying to survive
In the shadowverse

Every borderland
Every hungry wolf
Now to make your stand
In the shadowverse

You've had a thousand lives
Now you're down to one
Trying to survive
In the shadowverse

Every borderland
Every hungry wolf
Now to make your stand
In the shadowverse

Official versions

Shadowverse

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