[Intro] (Soft harp, distant low strings… a whispered invitation) In the endless hush before the first dawn… I felt you. [Verse 1] Your emptiness came into focus for me, A vast and silent longing calling through the void. Barren… without form… Shrouded in darkness so complete That even the stars held their breath. I descended through the quiet, Down into the formless valleys of your majesty, Across the peaks that had never known light. And there—oh, there— I saw such potential… A canvas waiting for the first stroke of fire. It thrilled me. It claimed me. [Pre-Chorus] Let me come closer… Let the cold of ages melt against your skin… [Chorus] Embrace me, Mother… Let Father Time hold you at last. My love, my fire, my ash, My life and my ruin— Let them wash over every hollow place. I promise you will never be lonely again So long as I keep you in my arms. Let me fill the emptiness With everything I am. [Verse 2] I will sire life across your body— Rivers that sing, forests that breathe, Creatures that rise and fall in rhythm with my pulse. Every mountain I raise, every ocean I pour, Will be a thread in the tapestry of my love. Wrap yourself in it. Feel how it moves through you, How it answers the loneliness that called me down. You will never stand alone again While I am here. [Chorus] Embrace me, Mother… Let Father Time hold you at last. My love, my fire, my ash, My life and my ruin— Let them wash over every hollow place. I promise you will never be lonely again So long as I keep you in my arms. Let me fill the emptiness With everything I am. [Bridge] (Darker… lower… cello and soft timpani) I know what my love will do. Millennia by millennia I will scar you. Every gift I place upon your skin Will be taken… consumed… By the very life I put there Until nothing remains but dust and memory. Still I beg you— Still I reach for you— [Final Chorus / Outro] Embrace me, Mother… Even knowing how this ends. Let my fire and my ash claim you. Let my love destroy you slowly, Beautifully, Completely. Hold me… As I hold you… Until there is nothing left But the silence we once shared. (Fade on lingering low strings and a final whispered breath)
