[Intro] [Switch to Female 1] It’s done. The last one is still. And so am I. [Verse 1] [Switch to Female 1] The debt arrives all at once Not as pain exactly More like the sudden absence of everything that was keeping me upright My hands stop answering The breath I was using becomes optional I stay conscious long enough to confirm the silence No more movement at the edge of the dark No more hunger pressing against the walls Just water and the sound of a building that has finally stopped fighting itself [Pre-Chorus] [Switch to Female 1] I knew the cost I paid it in installments This is the balloon payment Coming due on the floor [Chorus] [Switch to Female 1] The life force debt does not negotiate It simply collects what was promised I gave the name I gave the rest And the dark has balanced the ledger [Verse 2] [Switch to Female 1] There is no triumph in the quiet Only the heavy fact of still being present For a few more breaths My vision is mostly gone Sound comes and goes like a weak signal I think about the first night I woke under glass How much of me was still left then How little remains now And how the math still feels correct [Pre-Chorus] [Switch to Female 1] I knew the cost I paid it in installments This is the balloon payment Coming due on the floor [Chorus] [Switch to Female 1] The life force debt does not negotiate It simply collects what was promised I gave the name I gave the rest And the dark has balanced the ledger [Bridge] [Switch to Male 1] You actually finished it. [Switch to Female 1] That was always the only assignment Everything else was noise [Chorus] [Switch to Female 1] The life force debt does not negotiate It simply collects what was promised I gave the name I gave the rest And the dark has balanced the ledger [Outro] [Switch to Female 1] Ledger closed. I can stop now.
