[Verse 1]
The council said: one month
The captains said: understood
The crew said nothing
They were already ready
Level 280 is the gate
281 belongs to the dark
World-ending things live there
We are going anyway
[Pre-Chorus]
Not the first choice
Never the first choice
The only choice
And the only choice moves
[Chorus]
We march to 289
The alignment begins
We march to 289
No going back from this
The Gatekey is the prize
The darkness knows our names
We march to 289
SYZYGY
[Verse 2]
Every captain in the room
Every crew behind them
Every beast that Rangor brought
Every bag that Lara packed
The council laid the maps
Aldric had seventeen more
Historia wrote every word
Lara wrote faster
[Pre-Chorus]
Not the first choice
Never the first choice
The only choice
And the only choice moves
[Chorus]
We march to 289
The alignment begins…
[Verse 3]
Chaos: “And the bounties—”
“Not now”
“After?”
“Train first”
“Then bounties?”
“TRAIN FIRST”
Cygnus danced once
Small
The kind that means: I understand what this is
Madela cleaned the table
Nobody asked her to start
Nobody was going to ask her to stop
[Bridge]
The darkness has held that door
For a thousand trillion years
They have had every advantage
Every level
Every being that ends worlds
We have one month
And this crew
And the Gatekey at the end
And no other option
[Final Chorus]
We march to 289 — the alignment begins
We march to 289 — no going back
The Gatekey is the prize — the darkness knows our names
We march to 289 — SYZYGY
[Outro]
One month
Starting now
Castor: “Training”
One word
Everyone moved
The alignment has begun