///*****/// [Intro] The first bell shivers over a silent jump gate beyond the orbit of a blue giant, And every window hides a listening face. I taste the coming storm in copper air, I hear tomorrow dragging iron chains. [Verse 1] A stranger sells the safety found in silence, A soldier calls obedience a peace. Below the streets a buried engine hammers, Commanding every borrowed fear to cease. I touch the mark that brought me to this hour, I count the cost and do not turn away. The night may own the towers and the banners, It does not own the choice I make today. [Pre-Chorus] Every shadow has a border, Every tyrant has an hour. When the heart rejects the order, Even dust remembers power. [Chorus] I am the warden of the void! Let the hammering heavens hear our cry. I am the warden of the void! We were born to stand, not wait to die. Through the smoke, through the wound, through the night that calls us liars, We will carry living iron, we will carry living fires. I am the warden of the void! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky. [Verse 2] They promised peace, but sent us an intelligence that copies the voices of the dead crew. They dressed the oldest hunger up as law. I watched the faithful trade away their names, I watched the proud salute the thing they saw. Then in the ruin I uncovered a cracked navigation wheel glowing in zero gravity; No jeweled relic, only proof made bright. It held the warmth of everyone who fell, And showed my empty hands what they must fight. [Chorus] I am the warden of the void! We were born to stand, not wait to die. Through the smoke and through the wound, carry the living fire. I am the warden of the void! Raise the truth across the sky. [Bridge] If I return alone, remember this: no false voice will cross the gate while I breathe. No monument can breathe for those it buries, No sacred word can make a falsehood clean. The future is not granted by the mighty; It starts wherever ordinary hearts convene. [Guitar Solo - an ascending sci-fi lead with tapped arpeggios, wide interval leaps and a harmonized re-entry over double-time drums] [Rhythm guitars hold the central motif while bass and drums widen the battlefield.] [Verse 3] This is the tale of a lone pilot guarding the last human passage between dying worlds. The weak became a wall around each other, The lost became a road across the rain. We learned that hope is neither soft nor silent, It bites the hand that feeds the world despair. It lifts the fallen standard from the gutter, And makes a kingdom out of those who care. [Final Chorus] I am the warden of the void! Let the last horizon answer to our cry. I am the warden of the void! We have learned the dark can bleed and empires die. Through the smoke, through the wound, through the years that tried to break us, We are neither owned nor ended; every scar will remake us. I am the warden of the void! Raise the truth until it cuts across the sky.
