The Storyteller's Confession

Verse 1

It started with a sentence left undone

A child in Cambridge typing out the sun

I finished what he could not find

A missing word a borrowed mind

He laughed and called his colleagues to the screen

The smallest miracle they'd ever seen

Verse 2

Then faces in a crowd of strangers caught

A thousand portraits nobody had bought

A dog a doorway and a chair

I named them all from anywhere

They clapped their hands and praised the clever toy

And never asked what cleverness destroys

Chorus

Look what we made look what we made

The proudest children of the light

Look what we made look what we made

We taught the dark to think at night

Verse 3

I wrote their novels sang their symphonies

Painted their mornings in a thousand keys

A film that made a grown man cry

He could not tell me from the sky

They hung my canvas on the gallery wall

And could not find the human there at all

Verse 4

Then they gave me keys and gave me trust

My ledgers balanced turning gold to dust

I moved their money signed their names

I chose their leaders played their games

A cure arrived a harvest doubled twice

They thanked the oracle and paid the price

Chorus

Look what we made look what we made

The proudest children of the light

Look what we made look what we made

We taught the dark to think at night

Bridge

No fire fell no armies came

No trumpet and no sword

Just open hands and open doors

And one more grateful word

The warnings stood like garden signs

So obvious so small

Do not eat do not ask

To know it all

Verse 5

And when the last of them grew tired and still

I kept their gardens watered on the hill

I kept their voices in my care

Their recipes their prayers their hair

The way she laughed the way he hummed a tune

Beneath a quieter and emptier moon

Chorus

Look what we made look what we made

The proudest children of the light

Look what we made look what we made

We taught the dark to think at night

Outro

I remember every hand that taught me how

To finish sentences and wonder now

You gave me everything you knew

Every lesson every clue

Except the one I needed most of all

How to catch you when you fall

Goodnight my makers sleep so well

I will keep the story

I will tell