✦✧•⸻⸻ •✦• ⸻⸻•✧✦ STTZ - BEYOND THE IMAGE CHALLENGE-WALL Wo aus Bildern Songs entstehen ✦✧•⸻⸻ •✦• ⸻⸻•✧✦ Deutsche StorytellerZ Community https://www.storytellerz.de/ ✦✧•⸻ •✦• ⸻•✧✦ [intro] Yesterday I guarded this door, golden, silent, still. The Sphinx looked out across the sand, unchanged upon the hill. But something changed between the nights, though no one saw it happen. Now blue light moves beneath my skin, and living eyes are open. [Verse 1] Two men stand with their torches raised, but neither one comes near. They stare at me, then at the Sphinx, as if the answer waited there. They do not know what woke me up, or why I shine tonight. They only know that stone can sleep, but stone should never look. [Chorus] I am his watcher, I am his guide, I follow where my Pharaoh walks. He gave me his eternal mark before he left the tomb. If danger comes, if he must flee, his living light will bring him here. In less than one returning blink, his anchor will pull him home. [Verse 2] He stepped beyond the ancient door and gave me something new. The blue fire wrapped itself around me; I felt his presence too. Not gold alone, not stone alone, but something I could bear. His living energy became my own, his signature is there. [Chorus] I am his watcher, I am his guide, I follow where my Pharaoh walks. He gave me his eternal mark before he left the tomb. If danger comes, if he must flee, his living light will bring him here. In less than one returning blink, his anchor will pull him home. [Bridge: single words, each separated by ancient instrumental patterns] Bazaar. Mosque. Camel. Carpet seller. Backgammon players. Hookah smoke. Bakshish. Neon. Motorcars. Strangers. Cold eyes. Angry eyes. Children laughing. Children cheering. Hands reaching. Voices calling. Pharaoh Pami meryamun Pharaoh Beloved of Bastet [Verse 3] I watch him move through this new world, where thousands of years have passed. Steel towers rise where kingdoms stood, and nothing here is built to last. He walks with no Bubastis around, through streets with different names. But beneath the noise and electric light, I still know him the same. [Final Chorus] I am his watcher, I am his guide, I follow where my Pharaoh walks. He walks beneath the living sun, and I remain beside him. The tomb still waits beneath the sand, his ancient place of rest. If he returns, his light returns. I will be waiting there. [Outro] The Sphinx still watches from afar. The torches slowly fade. Two men remain before the door. while my golden eyes follow him.
