[Verse 1] The sword went in before I saw her face The instinct moved before the mind could place And then the moment froze — her eyes — her eyes — I know those eyes I have always known those eyes Somewhere below the war Below the fire Below the rage that carried me this far There is a room I cannot name And she is in it
[Pre-Chorus 1] The warmth is not the church The warmth is not the candle The warmth is not the god I spent my whole life building walls to find The warmth is —
[Chorus 1] There was a room once Small and warm and full of something nameless There were two of us before the world had names Before the faith, before the fire, before the choice I remember now I remember — And I remember it is too late
[Verse 2] A voice that came when we were barely breathing “This light is dangerous to our faith” And so they took the light and left the shadow And called the shadow something they could shape “How about this one — the other side who brings the chaos Leave her — train her — make her ours instead And when the time has come let her be faithful And let her be the sword that strikes the prophet dead”
[Pre-Chorus 2] I was never the servant I was never the faithful I was the blade they sharpened since the night they split us in the dark I am the weapon They built against my sister
[Chorus 2] They took the prophet out of her by breaking her They left the chaos in me and called it grace They raised me on their scripture and their doctrine And aimed me at the one I used to know before I had a face I was the ending they were always writing I was the instrument they needed from the start I have been their sword My whole life My whole life
[Bridge] And then she said it One word She said — Elara. She knew my name. She knew my name the whole time.
[Verse 3] They built this road and I have walked it faithful I did not choose it but I am what grew And somewhere past the grief and past the fury Is something older — certain — cutting through I am not breaking here I am not kneeling I am not going back to what I was before If this is what was written in their scripture Then let it be the last thing that they wrote
[Pre-Chorus 3] I have resigned my role Not to them — to what I am The chaos twin The other side The thing they could not tame
[Final Chorus] I am not Elara the faithful I am not Elara the broken I am the consequence of every choice they made inside the dark I am the weapon that has turned against its maker I am the ending of the story they were trying to control I am the crimson underneath the white dress I am the war they started when they split us at the start I am the thing they should have left together And mercy — is — no — more
[Outro] War is coming. War is inevitable. War will cleanse this world. War will be the light. War will bring the hope back. War. Is. Me.