[Verse 1] The corridor turned wrong when I stepped through The ceiling is the floor and the floor isn’t true Greed has had his hands on every wall Every step I think I’m rising when I fall
Something pulls at me like weights below the knee Something slows the air between the stone and me Sloth has settled in the corridors ahead Moving like the space itself is thick with lead
[Pre-Chorus] I reach for light and it comes slower than before Something here is feeding on my power at the core But I have fought through worse with nothing left to give And I am not this close to Elara just to quit
[Chorus] Down is up and up is falling Every wall a trick and every floor a lie But I have found something inside me that is not warped by this Something none of them can slow and none of them can twist I burned through Sloth with everything I had I turned around and Envy wore my face But what I carry in the place they cannot reach Is the one thing she can copy but can never take my place
[Verse 2] Envy stood there wearing all my light Every move I made she had already in sight Radiance Burst — she threw it back at me Searing Gaze — she used it, almost perfectly
Almost — because a copy has no root No source below the surface — just the fruit I reached for Soul Read first and saw her hollow Then I hit her with the one thing that has no mirror, no tomorrow
[Pre-Chorus] The Unveiling — strip the mask and show the empty A copy of a weapon is a weapon with no center She scattered when the light hit what she really was Just borrowed power wearing stolen gloves
[Chorus] Down is up and up is falling Every wall a trick and every floor a lie But I have found something inside me that is not warped by this Something none of them can slow and none of them can twist I stood above what Sloth and Envy left behind I felt the pull of something sixty percent mine The light is not full yet but it is enough And I am almost where I need to be
[Bridge] And then the air went cold Not the cold of corridors and stone A different cold — a cold that breathes A cold that thinks A cold that knows my name
The cage I touched in the dark below Was not empty It was never empty And whatever I released Is already here
[Final Chorus] Down is up and up is falling And I have found my compass in the light I burned through two of seven in this tower And something old and enormous woke tonight I am still on my feet — sixty percent is more than before But I can feel Apollyon finding me And I am not sure what waits beyond this door
[Outro] Something breathes in the corridor below Something breathes and it is not a Sin Whatever waits is older than the Sins And I opened it I opened it