The Moor’s Last Light

[Intro] [Female Voice] Low light on the floor. Don’t look away. Truth came late, but it came. [Verse 1] [Male Voice] I walked in with thunder in my bloodline, heard a lie and made it law. Had a white cloth folded in my fist, like proof could fit inside my palm. I was soldier, judge, and witness, all three wrong in the same room. You kept saying, “Look at me,” but I kept looking through you. I let a whisper wear my face. I let suspicion take your name. Turned a bed into a courtroom, turned our love into a claim. And now the night won’t let me blink. Every candle knows the cost. I held the whole world in my hands, then called it honor when I lost. [Chorus] [Female Voice] Last light, don’t die on me. Burn through what he couldn’t see. Love was here. Love was right. He found the truth in the Moor’s last light. Hold on, even now. Let the dark confess somehow. Love was here. Love was right. Too late to save the Moor’s last light. [Verse 2] [Male Voice] I can hear the room replaying, every breath I didn’t trust. I can see your hand still open, like mercy turning into dust. You were not the rumor’s shadow. You were not the mark they made. You were morning in the doorway. I was dusk with a blade. I don’t want them calling this passion. I don’t want them making it grand. This was fear with polished language. This was poison secondhand. A man can win a thousand battles, still lose one quiet room. I killed the only light that loved me, then watched truth walk in too soon. [Chorus] [Female Voice] Last light, don’t die on me. Burn through what he couldn’t see. Love was here. Love was right. He found the truth in the Moor’s last light. Hold on, even now. Let the dark confess somehow. Love was here. Love was right. Too late to save the Moor’s last light. [Bridge] [Male Voice] I was not blind. I chose the smoke. I heard your voice and let it choke. I had the proof inside my chest. I loved you wrong and called it test. [Female Voice] Say I was real. Say I was warm. Say I was more than the shape of your storm. Say I was love before I was loss. Say what doubt did. Name the cost. [Final Chorus] [Both] Last light, don’t die on me. Burn through what he couldn’t see. Love was here. Love was right. He found the truth in the Moor’s last light. [Female Voice] Hold on, even now. Let the dark confess somehow. Love was here. Love was right. Too late to save the Moor’s last light. [Male Voice] Low lamp. White sheet. I killed the morning that loved me. [Outro] [Female Voice] Last light on the floor. Don’t look away. Truth came late, but it came. [End]