Spectral Criticality

[Intro] (whispered) Don’t make me choose... Don’t make me choose... [Verse 1] I learned early— Mercy dies hungry. Every hand I held turned into smoke around me. So now I count pulse rates, doorways, angles, distance from the blade. You call it madness. I call it staying alive. [Pre-Chorus] (low organ swell begins) If peace demands surrender— then peace was never peace. If love can be extracted— then love becomes disease. [Chorus] And if I must— I’ll split the night apart. Turn every sky to glass before they see the dark. You see a monster bloom— I see the final line. So if I must... If I must... let the gamma burst erupt. [Verse 2] There’s a silence before extinction. Not loud— not rage— just acceptance. Like stars already know which one of them will fall first. Like God blinking once and calling it mercy. [Bridge] (pipe organ rises larger) I gave the world more chances than it gave me. I bent my hands until the bones agreed. You think restraint is weakness— No. Restraint Keeps you breathing. [Final Chorus] So if I must— I’ll black the oceans out. Pull every warning siren from the mouths of men. I was not built for heaven. I was built to endure the end. And if I must... If I must... watch the gamma bloom again. [Outro] (organ cooldown) Don’t make me choose. Or else you lose.