[Verse 1] I am still standing I do not know how The blood on the stone is mine and I am standing somehow I looked up at the ceiling without knowing why And something in the dark above me answered
Not a voice — a light Not a light — a name Something older than the names I know that called mine back the same Something in the south of all the sky has always held A seal that THE ONE placed before the world was built
[Pre-Chorus] It is not bright the way the other stars are bright It does not need to be followed — it needs to be found And only by the one it was made for And it found me here bleeding on the ground
[Chorus] Sigma Octantis — the anchor of the south The seal that holds the darkness at the bottom of creation It does not guide you home the way that other stars will guide It guides you back to what you were before the separation I did not call it and it came I did not ask and it poured through All the light I could not reach — all the power I had forgotten Was already there — it just needed to be shown to me by you
[Verse 2] They come like breath returning to a body I felt them settle in behind me one by one Not soldiers — witnesses Not weapons — witnesses Come to see the thing the south star finally became
I have been fighting with the tools of my imprisonment I have been fighting with the dark they fed me as a child But Sigma Octantis does not give you borrowed power It holds a mirror up and says — look what has been here all this while
[Pre-Chorus] It is not bright the way the other stars are bright It does not guide the traveler home — it guides the lost back to themselves I have been so lost for so long I forgot there was a self left to find
[Chorus] Sigma Octantis — the anchor of the south The seal that holds the darkness at the bottom of creation It does not guide you home the way that other stars will guide It guides you back to what you were before the separation I did not call it and it came I did not earn this and it stayed And the ones who hold the sky above the southern cross Have been assigned to me since before my name was made
[Bridge — the angels arrive] One by one they land Not with a sound — with a warmth Not wings — a weight of something sacred settling in I have been alone in every room I ever lived in And now I am not alone Not anymore Not from here
[Final Chorus] Sigma Octantis — the one they overlooked No myths were written, no one sang it into glory But THE ONE placed it before the gods arrived, before the Order The star that holds the bottom of the sky And this is my story — always was The dim one no one saw until the moment that it mattered The south star knows my name — the real one — not the one they gave me And everything I am was always worth the wait
[Outro] I know my name now Not the one they gave me — mine The south star knows it And the angels standing at my side From here on — from here on They are mine