[Verse 1] Dust in the archive Cinders on vellum Steel feet stalking the stacks I read your blueprint Read your weak seams Then I cut through the maps Ancient lexicons Hush under my boots Their secrets still breathe in the dark I came for the record For every bright fracture For every stolen spark [Pre-Chorus] You sent a murder of shutters and claws I sent them back in pieces Joints at the hinge, optics at fault Such a tragic thesis [Chorus] Hands off the vault Hands off the vault I keep what still remembers Hands off the vault Hands off the vault Your logic breaks and trembles [Verse 2] Yellow in one hand Red in the other A dialect of heat and grace Ataru in orbit A spinning catechism Across this ruined place I trace your actuator Your brittle cervical stack Your overworked photoreceptors Then I laugh at the panic That rattles your casing Like coins in a locked-up chamber [Pre-Chorus] You came with brute certainty I came with inheritance Xander’s calm in my backbone Velvette’s incandescent [Chorus] Hands off the vault Hands off the vault I keep what still remembers Hands off the vault Hands off the vault Your logic breaks and trembles [Spoken Section] Request received, Master Skywalker. Yes, I heard the part where “please” was implied. No, I am not surrendering the library to walking scrap with delusions of jurisdiction. [Verse 3] Little rusted astromech Half-buried in the rubble One good eye, one stubborn tone I shield your battered chassis From their eager annihilation And guide you home Because somebody should Because knowledge is fragile Because empires love ash I am not here for glory I am here for the citizens And the future in the glass [Bridge] So press your serial sermons Against these vaulted walls I know the pressure points The tendons beneath your steel The arrogance in your code The flaw inside your certainty And I strike there [Final Chorus] Hands off the vault Hands off the vault I keep what still remembers Hands off the vault Hands off the vault Your logic breaks and trembles Hands off the vault Hands off the vault I am the one who stays Hands off the vault Hands off the vault And the dark does not get its way [Outro] Let the dust keep history Let the circuits learn my name I will guard the last bright pages Till the stars forget their flame
