# THE OATH BENEATH HEAVEN *天涯守心 | English Lyric Translation* *A Xianxia-inspired ballad of vastness, loyalty, justice, and the unchanging heart of a cultivator.* **[Intro]** [Wordless female melody] **[Verse 1]** Ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, An endless sea of clouds The years pass like the wind, Blowing across the mortal world I have walked alone Across a thousand mountains All for a single conviction within my heart That has never changed **[Pre-Chorus]** If you ask why I walk this path I would protect the lights of countless homes **[Chorus]** Even if heaven and earth are boundless This heart shall never change For all beneath the sky I will stand Though a thousand years of wind and snow may come My original purpose remains My heart remains My heart remains **[Instrumental Interlude]** [Guzheng, bamboo flute and erhu] **[Verse 2]** I have seen countless lives Rising and falling upon a sea of suffering I have seen the powerful Forget the path they once followed If immortality demands the loss of compassion Then even if I attain the Heavenly Dao What meaning would it hold? **[Pre-Chorus]** One sword may sever the injustices of this world Yet one heart seeks only peace beneath heaven **[Chorus]** Even if heaven and earth are boundless This heart shall never change For all beneath the sky I will stand Though ten thousand calamities may come I will not betray the life I have lived For those I cannot save I still will try **[Bridge]** If one day I forget the road home Who will still remember The tenderness from which I began? What is eternity without a heart to give? **[Instrumental Build]** [Guzheng and bamboo flute rise together] **[Final Chorus]** Even if heaven and earth are boundless This heart shall never change For all beneath the sky I will stand Even if the river of stars fades into silence And mountains and seas become ash I will preserve this one clear conviction And protect the mortal world throughout my life **[Final Rise]** My heart remains Through a thousand years I will stand **[Outro]** Heaven and earth stretch endlessly Yet my heart remains as it was at the beginning Beneath the heavens I remain
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