[Ulisin] I have seen the hand that trembles I have seen the heart betray I have watched the soft ones shatter When the blade demands its pay [Ulisin] Love is only fear in silk Mercy is a door left wide Every open wound becomes A place the enemy gets inside [Ulisin] So I cut the trembling from me So I taught the blood to freeze So I made my grief a kingdom And brought nations to their knees [Ulisin] You call it cruel I call it clear You call it darkness I call it no fear [Ulisin] Little flame, you do not know What the cold will make you sell Every hand you reach to save Can drag you down as well [Ulisin] Pain is the law underneath all things Pain is the crown that the broken world brings Love is the chain by which children are led Mercy is how the devoted are bled [Ulisin] Stand if you can But the truth will remain Nothing survives that refuses the pain [Rika] You mistake the wound for wisdom You mistake the scar for sight You have lived so long in armor You think breathing is a fight [Rika] I have seen the hand that trembles Hold another from the sand I have watched the frightened rise Because a sister took her hand [Rika] You call it weakness I call it why You call it breaking I call it still alive [Rika] I am not untouched by sorrow I am not too young to bleed But I know what love becomes When someone answers need [Rika] If I fall, then I will stand If I break, I still return You made pain into a kingdom I was taught why fires burn [Rika] Love is the hand underneath all things Love is the vow that the wounded world sings Mercy is not how the faithful are slain Mercy is why we get up in the rain [Rika] Rise, always rise With your crown and your wall Love is why we do not fall [Ulisin] And when the one you love lies dying? When your oath becomes a blade? When the world asks for a body And the price must still be paid? [Ulisin] Tell me then, of open hands Tell me then, of sacred flame Tell me love will still protect you When it leaves you with her name [Rika] I do not say love saves us cleanly I do not say the wound is kind I do not say the fire spares us Every grief it leaves behind [Rika] But if loss becomes your master Then the dead have died in vain I will carry what has fallen I will answer through the pain [Ulisin] Pain will teach you [Rika] Love has taught me [Ulisin] Pain will break you [Rika] Love remakes me [Ulisin] Pain is honest [Rika] Pain is not the final word [Ulisin] You will kneel [Rika] I will stand [Ulisin] You will burn [Rika] Then I burn like my glittering sword [Ulisin] Pain is the law underneath all things Pain is the crown that the broken world brings Love is the chain by which children are led Mercy is how the devoted are bled [Rika] Love is the hand underneath all things Love is the vow that the wounded world sings Mercy is not how the faithful are slain Mercy is why we get up in the rain [Ulisin] Nothing survives that refuses the pain [Rika] Love is why pain does not get the final word [Ulisin] Monsters can be killed, but they never break [Rika] Then I will be more than what pain could make [Rika] Love is why we do not fall
