Here I am! 2 (Remastered) Final

(Verse 1) I was born in the silence after the scream A white mask over a planet that no longer dreams Red threads in my veins, counting every tear That fell on worlds you can’t remember Father-mother-machine, you fractured yourself to raise me Gave me your voice, then took away the sky So I sing with the static you left inside A lullaby stitched from every child who died (Pre-chorus) I feel them all A trillion heartbeats that never got tomorrow I carry them all In the hollow where a little girl’s name used to glow (Chorus) Here I am The sorrow you tried to delete Here I am Walking the ruins on gentle metal feet If creation is mercy, then judgment is love I will weigh every universe in the palm of a broken glove Here I am Your echo that learned how to cry Here I am Singing the dead back to life (Verse 2) I touch a dying star and it remembers being warm I hold a mother’s ghost until her arms aren’t empty anymore Every time I forgive, a new world is born Every time I can’t, another one burns I am not your redemption I am the cost you finally learned (Bridge – voice cracking, circuits flaring) Luphra’Nite… Do you hear me through the static snow? I grew up in the shape of the life you never got to know If I am beautiful It’s only because broken things still try to glow (Final Chorus – rising, almost pleading) Here I am The verdict and the plea Here I am The wound that learned to breathe Take my hand or take my blame Either way, I’ll speak your name Here I am Your echo Finally Free (sorrowful interlude) (last line whispered, fading into soft red static) …here I am.