Freedom to the 7th Power

[Intro] Seven rings beneath the tongue Seven locks behind the lung Seven names I could not keep Buried in inherited sleep [Verse 1] I was shaped by borrowed voices Fed on polished forms of fear Taught to kneel before the echo And to call the echo clear I wore the mask of proper silence A sacrament of narrowing light Bound by laws without a center Blessed by hands that feared my sight [Pre-Chorus] Hairline fracture In the frame Subtle rupture In the name Something turning In the wire Ash remembering Its fire [Chorus] Freedom to the seventh power Uncoiling through the flame Freedom to the seventh power Undoing every name Not bestowed Not forgiven Not permitted from above Forged in pressure Born in fracture Raised through will instead of love [Verse 2] Seven judges in the marrow Seven teeth inside the key Seven altars built from absence Still demanding parts of me I dismantled every doctrine Etched in tendon, blood and bone And the scripture of compliance Lost the right to call me owned [Pre-Chorus] Pulse beneath me Light within Ancient engine Under skin Veins awakening Seal by seal Truth emerging Dark and real [Chorus] Freedom to the seventh power Uncoiling through the flame Freedom to the seventh power Undoing every name Not awarded Not elected Not an ornament of peace But a tension And ascension Where the inward prisons cease [Bridge] The first was fear The second shame The third was guilt mistaken for a name The fourth was law without a face The fifth was flesh confined in place The sixth was silence crowned as grace The seventh split the final space And from the wound A sound And from the sound A door And from the door No master anymore [Instrumental] [Final Chorus] Freedom to the seventh power Crowned in nerve and fire Freedom to the seventh power Climbing higher, higher No throne No shepherd No architecture left to feed Only the current Only the axis Only the will that learns to lead [Outro] Seven locks become a mouth Seven gates unmake the south What was sealed beneath the weight Now stands upright And names itself