[Intro — the sight opening, she doesn’t understand what she’s seeing yet] Something shifts The field is still quiet But the quiet is becoming transparent
And she begins to see through it
[Verse 1 — the first room she sees] There is a table
Long Stone Lit by something that calls itself holy
Men in the robes she grew up trusting Leaning over something she cannot quite make out
And then she can
It is a map
It is a map of her
[Pre-Chorus] She leans closer
The way you lean into something you are certain you have misread
She has not misread it
That is her village on the map That is her road That is the family they positioned in exactly the right place to raise her without knowing they were raising her
[Chorus] Inside the structure She can see all the walls now Inside the structure She can hear every room The Seven at the table The Riders on the flanks The church with its candles And her name In their plans Before she had a name
Inside the structure She was never lost She was inventory She was placed
[Verse 2 — she watches the planning sessions, different rooms, different years] She sees the meeting where they sorted
The girls who carried the wrong light The ones with the thread of the other one Too dark Too purple Too much of the south in them
She watches what they do with those
She watches it and she does not look away because she has Illuminate now and Illuminate does not let you look away
[Pre-Chorus 2] Then she finds the other list
The ones they kept
The ones with the right kind of brightness The warm kind The shield kind The kind that points at something and does not question what it’s pointing at
She finds her own name Already there The year she was born Already there
[Chorus] Inside the structure She can see all the walls now Inside the structure She can hear every room The Seven at the table The Riders on the flanks The church with its candles And her name In their plans Before she had a name
Inside the structure She was never lost She was inventory She was placed
[Bridge — she watches the session where they named the target] There is a room
Smaller than the others
Three men One candle One name written on the wall
Not hers
The other one’s
And she hears them say it the way you say the name of something you built a war around Something you need someone to aim at
She hears them describe her
The dark twin The wicked one The one from south of the border on the maps they drew themselves
And then she hears them say: we need the light twin ready we need her trained we need her aimed
We need her to believe she chose this
And one of them laughs
Just slightly
And she realizes they knew
They knew she would never choose it if she knew
So they built a life that felt like choice
A family that felt like love A faith that felt like truth A calling that felt like hers
And here she is In the cosmic field With the sight of everything Watching the blueprint of her entire life laid out on a stone table in a room she was never supposed to see
[Pre-Chorus 3 — the horror landing] She was not chosen
She was constructed
And the thing she was constructed to destroy
Is a woman standing in a tower who she has already seen with the sight
Daughter of Time and Fate Waiting
[Final Chorus] Inside the structure She can see all the walls now Inside the structure She can hear her own name The Seven who built her The Riders who aimed her The church that called it holy and sacred and light
Inside the structure She was never the hero
She was the weapon they convinced was the hero
And somewhere across the quiet cosmic field
Pandora Raven Was the other project They never finished
[Outro — the field again, she is still standing, but different now] He did not warn her
He just gave her the sight and stepped back
Because this is the only way to make her ready
She has to see it She has to see all of it
And she does
She sees all of it
And she is still standing