[Verse 1] A child in the dark, no taller than my chest Eyes like frozen starlight, watching, never at rest I opened my mouth to warn her, the silence swallowed it whole She smiled like she had always known the shape of my soul
[Pre-Chorus] The child said — are you the light? I could not speak, she already knew The child said — you are not complete Not yet the shape of what you need to be
[Chorus] There are ones above the Order’s hand Older than the gods, older than this land They do not breathe the air of where we live They only take — they do not give I am half a flame and half a blade I cannot fight what we were both made for Not alone Not like this Not without the other half of this
[Verse 2] She turned like smoke and morning in the frozen northern air I reached with empty hands — she was already elsewhere The child said — I have been waiting The child said — I will ask again Of someone walking toward the north the way you walk in flame Two points of light and shadow, two halves of one name
[Pre-Chorus] Something old and vast is watching now Not from here, not from anywhere we know Something that was here before the gods Before the dark, before the first of us below
[Chorus] There are ones above the Order’s hand Older than the gods, older than this land They do not breathe the air of where we live They only take — they do not give I am half a flame and half a blade I cannot fight what we were both made for Not alone Not like this Not without the other half of this
[Bridge] They have no shape that living eyes can hold They were here before the word for cold The Order takes its orders from their name No one in this world of ours can claim They want the light divided — want it gone They cannot win if the twins of Ra become one
[Final Chorus] There are ones above the Order’s hand Older than the gods, older than this land But I am half and she is half And if she comes — if she finds me here — We are enough
[Outro] I left a map to send her away I did not know I needed her to stay
But I feel her moving She is on her way she is not going to stay I need to be ready I need to be stedy …For the time she and I - She and I - Become one.