[Verse 1] Floor by floor and none of them can hold me The ones who guarded darkness for so long I have carried light through every corridor below me And I am almost where I need to be — almost
I am not the thing they made me in these hallways I am not the weapon that they drew from fear and pain Something ancient and assigned to me is fighting at my shoulder And I have never in my life felt this — called by name
[Pre-Chorus] The chaos is still here — I just found the quiet inside it The kind of quiet that does not mean the fighting stops It means you know exactly why you’re doing it And who you’re doing it for
[Chorus] I cleared the floor and then I cleared the next one And every ancient horror they left between us — gone I am not the dark twin clawing for the exit I am the light twin clearing every room before she comes Floor by floor and level after level With the angels covering what I cannot reach alone I am making her a path through what would stop her Because she does not know what lives here — and I do
[Verse 2] Level twelve and then sixteen and then nineteen The tower narrows as it rises toward the light I can feel her — she is close now — she is climbing And I have been preparing for this moment all my life
[Pre-Chorus] The chaos is still here — I just found the quiet inside it And the quiet has a name — it is her name I have crossed through every horror in this tower To stand at level twenty and begin again
[Chorus] I cleared the floor and then I cleared the next one And every ancient horror they left between us — gone I am not the dark twin clawing for the exit I am the light twin clearing every room before she comes Floor by floor and level after level With the angels covering what I cannot reach alone I am making her a path through what would stop her Because she does not know what lives here — and I do
[Bridge — she reaches level 20] The door at level twenty opens outward The light from below and above is the same I step through and I see her Standing there in everything she is And after everything — After all of it — After three hundred winters and four wars and everything I burned —
Hello?
[Outro — Ominous Cosmic Horror] The air tears Something above all things reaches through I feel the freeze before I understand it And I cast the last thing I can cast before it takes me
Illuminate — see everything — remember I send it into her eyes before the silence covers me And then
Nothing Moves
I am still I am light held in suspension I am watching from inside the freeze I do not know if she received it But she was looking right at me