[Intro] A dark room with seven vertical lights, the room began to glow Seven coloured lamps beside a silver spine, moving slow I came carrying treating symbolic systems as literal shortcuts or spectacle, dressed for the night But a breathing circle drew a narrow silver line toward the light [Verse 1] a dark room with seven vertical lights, I watched seven coloured lamps catch the light While a silver spine kept time with a city that would not wait I wore treating symbolic systems as literal shortcuts or spectacle like a secret tailored close And every polished surface asked what I would become a breathing circle leaned toward a grounded stone, but neither one could speak The bass moved under me like a second, steadier pulse I learned that glamour can hide an unmade decision Yet even the dark leaves one clean edge for truth I carried an open throat bell past the rooms that had misread me I heard a crown of quiet stars say the future was not closed The night offered comfort, consequence, and choice So I counted my breath before I answered the flame [Chorus] Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded Make the promise audible above the room Let responsibility arrive before the bloom When the glamour fades, let character remain Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded Dance the wiser answer through the rain [Verse 2] There were seven coloured lamps moments, beautiful and hard to read There were doors dressed as mercy and doors dressed as law I mistook speed for courage, silence for control I mistook a silver spine for the proof of what I need But the rhythm kept returning to the measure of a deed Not the story we announce, but the person that we leave I put the bright excuses on the table one by one And found a grounded stone waiting underneath each one No halo makes an injury disappear from view No wound makes every answer automatically true So I let the question travel farther than my pride Until responsibility could finally stand beside me [Chorus] Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded Make the promise audible above the room Let responsibility arrive before the bloom When the glamour fades, let character remain Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded Dance the wiser answer through the rain [Middle Eight] If love is only heat, it burns the room it wanted to defend If reason is only ice, it never learns the shape of a friend If justice is only thunder, everybody hides from the sky So give love a conscience, give reason a pulse, give truth time to reply I do not need perfection to begin with using the symbols as prompts for disciplined self-awareness I need the next responsible step, repeated until it becomes art [Verse 3] Now I choose using the symbols as prompts for disciplined self-awareness, not as magic, not as myth But as a daily discipline of what I do with this I can honour where I started without living backward still I can ask for help and boundaries without surrendering my will I can dance with contradiction and refuse to call it fate I can leave one chair for doubt and still decide before too late Every mercy needs a method, every freedom needs a frame Every person needs a future larger than a file or name Let the lesson wear no armour; let it enter without force Let the heart receive the compass and let reason choose the course When the final light is lowered and the witnesses depart May the action match the promise that was rehearsed inside the heart [Call and Response] LEX: What survives the glitter? CHOIR: The conduct and the care. LEX: What survives the argument? CHOIR: The truth we learn to share. ALL: Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded [Moral Lift] This is the lesson the dawn wrote over me: Symbols help when they deepen reflection, not when they replace evidence or responsibility. Not a slogan for the wall, but a rhythm for the feet A promise made visible whenever word and action meet [Final Chorus] Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded Make the promise audible above the room Let responsibility arrive before the bloom When the glamour fades, let character remain Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded Dance the wiser answer through the rain Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded Now let the whole room answer: Seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded [Outro] Let seven coloured lamps rest beside a crown of quiet stars until the morning knows Let seven lights, one body, let the truth stay grounded be the last line as the curtain closes No life is only darkness, no lesson only pain We leave the room more careful, and we enter light again
