[Intro - quiet, alone] He set the book before me I had not asked to read
Verse 1
I found my name inscribed before I had a name to give I found the origin in consecrated hands that pressed it in They called themselves the holy, the anointed, the divine And somewhere in the line of all that sacred blood — I arrived
Pre-Chorus
Read it, he said Read what was written before the break
Chorus
I was not the accident, I was not the chosen sin I was born from holy ground before the fracture opened in Something split me at the root before I knew what I had been I was born already broken and I have been the dark between
Verse 2
The page turned and I saw the name I had not seen before Beside my own, the same date, the same blood, the same door Same breath, same morning, same impossible design She drew the light, I drew the rest, and neither choice was mine
Pre-Chorus
How, I said How do we come from the same place
Chorus
We were not divided later, we were split before the start Two souls from one beginning, one the light and one the dark I have despised the brightness without knowing where it came We were born from the same holy ground and given different names
Bridge
My father, my mother, the names I never claimed She carries what I cannot hold, I carry all the weight They share more than just this silence, more than what they sealed We were given the same beginning and were handed different fields
Final Section
I am not the origin of this I am not the source There was a red-haired light beside me Before the fracture took its course
Outro - stripped, near a cappella
Same womb Same blood Same name before it split Same hair Same strength Same Journey Same Destination And I still cannot understand why she was given light and I was given this
I am Pandora - Can I share in the light? She is Elara - Can you unburden my dark? The Raven and the Dawn - The Dark and the Light - The Beginning and The End Where do we go from here…