Saint Of The Split Mile : Two Halvs One Soul

[INTRO — whispered choir] Two halves... One body... One memory... One lie. [WHITE KYUREM — low, mournful] I walk the White Mile Where the frozen dead still breathe Every footprint tells a story Every story ends with me I remember falling I remember losing light I remember something screaming From the other side of night They called me the survivor They called me pure and whole But every time I see the moon I hear you in my soul [BLACK KYUREM — deep, distorted] You remember nothing. You remember what you need. You painted yourself a saint So you wouldn't see the beast. You left me in the darkness. You abandoned half the flame. Now you walk around pretending That you never knew my name. [WHITE KYUREM] You are destruction. [BLACK KYUREM] You are a lie. [WHITE KYUREM] You burned the world. [BLACK KYUREM] You watched it die. [PRE-CHORUS — BOTH] One road... Two shadows... One frozen sky... Which one of us Was supposed to survive? [CHORUS — BOTH] Saint of the Split Mile Standing on the line You say the darkness made me I say the light was mine Saint of the Split Mile Two voices in one grave If I destroy you now Which one of us gets saved? White flame... Black frost... Two halves... One loss. [VERSE 2 — WHITE KYUREM] I remember your hunger I remember your rage You tore through everything Like a beast escaping a cage You called it liberation You called the suffering truth But I watched you devour Every piece of what we knew You were the nightmare I was forced to become So I buried every memory And prayed you wouldn't come [BLACK KYUREM] No. You buried me. You buried the truth. You took the brightest memories And called the rest of them proof. You remember me screaming? I remember you smiling. You stood there in the snow While the whole world was dying. [WHITE KYUREM — shaken] That's not what happened. [BLACK KYUREM] Then why do you remember it? [WHITE KYUREM] Because I survived. [BLACK KYUREM] No. Because you edited it. [BREAKDOWN — piano and heartbeat] [WHISPERED VOICES] Who was there? Who was there? Who was there? [WHITE KYUREM] I saw you. [BLACK KYUREM] I saw you. [WHITE KYUREM] You attacked first. [BLACK KYUREM] You attacked first. [WHITE KYUREM] You broke the sky. [BLACK KYUREM] You broke me. [Silence] [WHITE KYUREM — whisper] ...What? [BLACK KYUREM — whisper] You finally remember. [VERSE 3 — BLACK KYUREM — aggressive rap] I wasn't born evil I was born from the fracture You wanted to be holy So you made me the disaster You carved away the darkness Then blamed me for the scar But every time you looked away You knew exactly where we are I'm the hunger in your heartbeat I'm the anger in your breath I'm the part of you that remembers What you did before the death You call me Black Kyurem Like black means I'm the sin But look into the frozen glass... Tell me who is looking in. [WHITE KYUREM — answering rap] You're the rage I couldn't carry You're the wound I couldn't heal But if everything you say is true Then tell me what is real Why do I remember saving them? Why do you remember screams? Why does every face I loved Appear inside my dreams? [BLACK KYUREM] Because we both were there. [WHITE KYUREM] Then who betrayed us? [BLACK KYUREM] You already know. [WHITE KYUREM] Tell me! [BLACK KYUREM] Look beneath the snow. [CHORUS — BOTH, escalating] Saint of the Split Mile The road is breaking wide White fire on the left Black thunder on the right Saint of the Split Mile No saint survives the truth I wasn't fighting you... I was fighting what I knew. White flame! Black frost! Two hearts! One loss! [BRIDGE — cinematic choir] [CHOIR] Split... Split... Split... [WHITE KYUREM — whisper] I remember the night. [BLACK KYUREM] So do I. [WHITE KYUREM] The sky was burning. [BLACK KYUREM] The world was screaming. [WHITE KYUREM] I reached for you. [BLACK KYUREM] You let go. [WHITE KYUREM] No... [BLACK KYUREM] You let go. [WHITE KYUREM] NO! [BLACK KYUREM] And then you called yourself the survivor. [FINAL BATTLE — BOTH] [WHITE KYUREM] I AM THE LIGHT! [BLACK KYUREM] I AM THE DARK! [WHITE KYUREM] I AM THE SAINT! [BLACK KYUREM] I AM THE SCAR! [WHITE KYUREM] YOU ARE THE MONSTER! [BLACK KYUREM] YOU MADE ME ONE! [WHITE KYUREM] I'LL END YOU! [BLACK KYUREM] THEN YOU'LL END YOURSELF! [Both — overlapping] I AM YOU! YOU ARE ME! THERE IS NO OTHER! NO ESCAPE! NO RELEASE! NO WAY BACK! [Music drops] [WHITE KYUREM — whisper] ...We're the same. [BLACK KYUREM — whisper] We always were. [FINAL CHORUS — haunting, slower] Saint of the Split Mile Now I finally see The monster in the darkness Was never chasing me Saint of the Split Mile The road was never two There was only one broken soul... And it was me and you. [OUTRO — whispered choir] White... Black... Light... Dark... Two names... One heart... [WHITE KYUREM — faint] Which one of us survived? [BLACK KYUREM — directly after] Neither. [Silence] [VERY FAINT WHISPER] The Split Mile... Was never a road.