Hybrid Realms [Verse 1 – Midnight Penn feminine monotone, mature leader’s voice, distant with reverb, Slow, deliberate. Almost spoken. Let each line breathe] These are hybrid realms, the continuum. A library of distant knowledge — ancient binary homage. The title: the wearer earns half of it, the rest he is born with — part of a collective of bloodlines under the skin. Deep in my bones. My hair. My walk. I fight. I speak. I carry no deceit in light of hybrid realms. My shadow — no one can wear you. You are a fixture. Ten thousand midnights, over years of fleeting memory — misery and manifestations. The forebearer. The lineage. The children— whose calculations? Our plight. Your fixation. Our power. Your story. Not a recollection of singular glory. Friendships survive — to never direct your worry. [Verse 2 Penn monotone, distant voice with reverb Slow, deliberate. Almost spoken. Let each line breathe] The Continuum fractured—two visions, one design, One guarded the roots, one mastered the underground line. Guild built the pillars, Coda carried the flame, Same blood in the river, just a different spoken name. My father drew maps where the old echoes meet, Reading every silence like a language underneath. He never chased legends—they were living in his breath, Teaching every child that remembrance conquers death. Va'Pennestra wasn't born from crowns upon a throne, We carried it hand to hand until the blood became the stone. Every designation before me carved another unseen stair, Now I climb those quiet footsteps like they're still waiting there. If every answer lives behind me why does it stay silent, If I solve the city does it finally remember me? [Verse 3 Penn monotone Slow, poetic, deliberate pace. Almost spoken. Let each line breathe] ] Before the walls were raised, before the districts came to be, Before Rollbacks bent the shape of all memory, There stood Carthagemini, the First who knew the cost, Holding light against the dark so neither world was lost. Every name became a compass, every oath became a guide, Labeled is the child that burden forces to walk beside. I don't carry history—history carries me, Like roots beneath the pavement feeding every living tree. I need not speak, they answer through me, the marrow in my frame, Not ghosts—but generations tell you my name. Hybrid realms, survived through the living, warning what is gone; They remind us every bloodline is another verse passed on. Pre chorus I repeat the flame through distinguished names Feed the passage down vocal lineage, I need not speak, generations reveal what came (Chorus) Penn: Bloodline remembers what the city forgets, what the Lattice bends. Penn: We remember when. Firsthouse, Milican, Draco – all Nestra made – Now Midnight Penn! (Evany Explodes wide rapping over full drums) Then remember this, Its time to build, Evany Starr and Penn, brick by brick, the new-age Burnwater Guild (Emma, Different voice rapping slower Sultry soft Teen Brooklyn street style, shimmers from a distant height above with reverb) Pitch portals open with a memory flash, clean up the spill, uncover what rolled back. (Evany teen rap Brooklyn rapper, with her wide burst to finish) Blueprints dreams the future takes shape, There tomorrow wearing yesterday’s face, This is the Hybrid time built, the Realm where payoff is due New Verance! Where the map remembers you (Chorus 2 break down) Penn: Bloodline remembers what the city forgets, what the Lattice bends. Penn: We remember when. Firsthouse, Milican, Draco – all Nestra made – Now Midnight Penn! (Evany Explodes wide rapping over full drums) Then remember this, Its time to build, Evany Starr and Penn, brick by brick, the new-age Burnwater Guild (Emma shimmers from a distant height above other voices with reverb) Pitch portals with a memory flash, clean up the spill, uncover what rolled back. (Evany back with her wide burst rap to finish) Blueprints dreams the future takes shape, There tomorrow wearing yesterday’s face, This is the Hybrid time built, the Realm where payoff is due New Verance! Where the map remembers you This is the Hybrid time built, the Realm where payoff is due New Verance! Remembers you This is the Hybrid time built, the Realm where payoff is due New Verance! (Fade out)
