We are...

[Intro – murmuré / incantatoire] Hush now… hear the ember’s hymn Of flesh that forms from what has been [Verse 1] Born not by nature, but by nearness named By breath and burden, bent and framed No soul stands sole in silent seed All shaped by sight, by scar, by need The wind we witness, we become The world we walk, we wear as one [Pre-Chorus] O child of clay and ceaseless change No form is fixed, no fate is strange [Chorus – répétitif / hypnotique] We are the woven, the worn, the made By all we meet, by all that stayed We are the marked, the marred, the known No self stands still, no self alone We are… we are… the conditioned flame We bear the world… and wear its name [Verse 2] A stone once seen becomes a law A glance can grind the soul to awe Each touch a tether, tight and true Each truth we take, takes hold of you No “nature” pure, no primal core But doors through doors through endless doors [Bridge – griot / conte] So gather close, you children bright By flickering fire and folding night The tale is told not carved in bone But cast in all we call our own For every echo etched in mind Becomes the mold of humankind [Break – répétition incantatoire] What we meet… we must become What we see… we carry on What we touch… will turn us too All the world… is writing you [Final Chorus – élargi / émotionnel] We are the woven, the worn, the made By fleeting fear, by forms that stayed We are the sum of silent scars Of borrowed breath, of broken stars We are… we are… no nature sealed But shifting selves the world revealed [Outro – très doux / chute] So tend the flame… but know its name Not what you are… but what you became