[Verse 1] I was the salt before the shore. I was the depth that made no room. Before names learned to bruise, I kept my body in the dark. I am Tiamat, mother of the flood, and I do not begin at peace. I carry the first anger like a crown, I carry the first tide like a blade. [Pre-Chorus] Then I called for shape. Then I called for teeth. Not to serve the day. To remember me. [Chorus] Uridimmu, rise for me. Uridimmu, rise for me. I made you from the deep. I made you for my grief. Uridimmu, rise for me. Uridimmu, rise for me. Walk where the shore breaks. Stand where the gods still bleed. [Verse 2] Uridimmu was the name I gave to the hand with no soft edge, to the watchdog born with the storm, to the creature of the outer gate. Not sheep. Not child. Not a bright and loyal thing. A horned shadow with a human stare, a hound of the threshold, a jaw for warning. [Pre-Chorus] I shaped that watcher from the night under skin. I placed him where fear would learn to kneel. [Chorus] Uridimmu, rise for me. Uridimmu, rise for me. I made you from the deep. I made you for my grief. Uridimmu, rise for me. Uridimmu, rise for me. Walk where the shore breaks. Stand where the gods still bleed. [Verse 3] He keeps the boundary. He knows the scent of trespass. He knows the feet that come too bold, the mouths that speak too high. I gave him the hard law: hold the line of my wrath, turn back the bright invasion, show the proud their smallness. [Pre-Chorus] No sweet spouse for him, no hearth, no milk, no bride. His love is the watch. His kin are the teeth. His children are the echoes that crouch behind the wall. [Bridge] I am not the soft mother that the cautious dream. I am the sea before mercy, I am the break in the bone. When the lesser gods grow careless, when their temples lean with pride, I send the old guardian forward, and their own names shake loose. [Chorus] Uridimmu, rise for me. Uridimmu, rise for me. I made you from the deep. I made you for my grief. Uridimmu, rise for me. Uridimmu, rise for me. Walk where the shore breaks. Stand where the gods still bleed. [Verse 4] Hear me list him cleanly: Uridimmu, the vigilant one. Role: watcher at the edge. Dominion: the border, the warning, the gate. Alignment: mine. Answering to no dawn, obedient to the first storm. He does not bless. He does not forgive. He keeps. [Outro] So come, bright powers, come count what I have made. A mother with a broken horizon. A guardian with a wolfish face. Uridimmu at the threshold. Uridimmu in my name.
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