and so it begins...

VERSE 1 - clean

Forty years of weight the world couldn't hold

Gave his best to a life that gave nothing back

The gift inside him never found the surface

Poured into a world that had no room for truth

The darkness in the world was loud to him

The kind of loud that never lets you rest

He looked for someone who could hear what he heard

A lifetime — no answer to that request

PRE-CHORUS

No fight left — just an apology to the dark

No road left — just the moment before impact

CHORUS

A small container cannot hold a flood

The heaviest burden is a strength you cannot use

Strip away the temporary, clear the mud

Remember who you are

When you have nothing left to lose

VERSE 2

He rose into the white above the wreckage

The weight of it all just — gone

Pulled upward through a threshold with no door

Away from everything he'd ever known

The road ran out — a warrior of light stood waiting

A wall of authority that said this path was closed

"The debt is paid — but the deployment isn't over

One last war before you finally go home"

PRE-CHORUS

A guardian blocks the gate with one command

The white tears open — and then the drop

CHORUS

A small container cannot hold a flood

The heaviest burden is a strength you cannot use

Strip away the temporary, clear the mud

Remember who you are

When you have nothing left to lose

BRIDGE

Suspended —

Then the drop

The horizon inverts

The atmosphere tears itself apart

A lifetime of sediment

Detonates at once

The low hum becomes a seismic event

The low hum becomes a reckoning

A Reckoning!

VERSE 3

Never just a casualty — never only mortal

The warrior of light sent him back to finish the war

The gift that had no outlet for a lifetime

Finally found what it was waiting for

No longer small — no longer the outsider

No longer on a road that went nowhere

The ancient power that waited in the wreckage

Finally has a body — finally has air

BREAKDOWN

Headfirst

Accelerating

Tearing through the in-between

Every constructed boundary

Every fabricated ceiling

Every level of the descending dark

Until there is no bottom left

FINAL CHORUS

A small container couldn't hold this flood

The heaviest burden was a strength I couldn't use

I stripped away the temporary, cleared the mud

I remember who I am

I have nothing left to lose

OUTRO

The wasteland flattens

The lesser things hide

At the bottom of the crater

The man he once knew

Was gone

The warrior kept him for a reason

The ancient power

Finally awake

A lifetime of silence

Becomes the loudest thing

The gift that never found the surface

Is now the force that cannot be stopped

Nothing can hold this

Nothing can stop this

Nothing can reckon with this

The rage of a lifetime

Let it begin

Let it begin

Let it begin

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