[Intro - sparse strings, large ruined space, she’s waking] Stone beneath my hands A ceiling I remember from before The smell of wood and ash A place I swore I’d never see once more
[Verse 1 - recognition, slow and disoriented] This is the church The one they kept me in Before the purple and the dark and everything The walls are cracked now Half the roof is gone And through the rubble — light The kind that doesn’t belong
[Pre-Chorus - the nun appears] And then a voice — soft, old, careful with each word She says: I brought you here I’ve waited to be heard
[Chorus - the revelation, ancient and celestial] She says you are the light I’ve always known you were the light They locked me here for saying it But child — you are the light She says they built the dark around you To keep you from the truth And I have waited all these years To say it to your face You are the light
[Verse 2 - the offer, the refusal] She reaches out her hand Her knuckles like the ruins where she stood I see the years of walls and silence Written in every line she could
She says: let me help you Let me walk this road beside And I look at this woman Who gave everything and still survived
I say: you’ve given enough You’re free now — that is yours I will not take another person down with me Before this war
[Pre-Chorus 2 - she accepts, quietly] She doesn’t argue Just looks with eyes that have seen too much too long And quietly — she lets me go
[Chorus] She says you are the light I’ve always known you were the light They locked me here for saying it But child — you are the light She says they built the dark around you To keep you from the truth And I have waited all these years To say it to your face You are the light
[Bridge - the warning, voice changes, urgency] Then she says — sharper now, afraid: Child. Listen. The girl in red is heading somewhere She cannot come back from
She’s already broken so much And the world is cracking where she walks You are the only one who understands What she is walking toward
Go to her Go to Elara Stop her before she breaks what cannot be remade You are the light she doesn’t know she needs Go — Before it is too late
[Final Section - Pandora at the doorway, alone] And I stand at the ruined threshold And I feel the weight of everything she said But I look at my hands Still trembling Still healing Still carrying the dead
Not yet Not now Not yet
I’m not ready She needs me whole Not yet
[Outro - she steps out, the nun watching from the ruin] The church behind me The road ahead She calls out softly As I step into the light instead
Not yet But soon …soon