[Spoken Invocation: distant, surrounded by desert wind] When the last door closes, and the names of the living fall silent, one guardian remains. Black as the sky before creation. Golden as the truth beneath the flesh. Anubis. Open the western gate. --- [Verse 1] I heard the jackal walking where the dying daylight bled, through the temples of the forgotten, through the kingdoms of the dead. No crown upon his silence, no hunger in his eyes, only judgment without hatred, only truth without disguise. He said, “Lay your armor at the threshold. Leave your titles with your breath. You cannot bribe eternity, and you cannot conquer death.” --- [Pre-Chorus] Every secret has a shadow. Every wound becomes a door. When the body falls behind you, what is left upon the floor? --- [Chorus] The scales remember everything, every promise, every scar. Every time you chose compassion, every time you broke a heart. The scales remember everything. No illusion crosses through. When your heart is weighed against the feather, will the feather rise for you? Anubis, keeper of the crossing, stand beside me through the night. Strip away the false within me. Lead me naked into light. --- [Drop Chant] WEIGH THE HEART! SPEAK THE NAME! BURN THE MASK! KEEP THE FLAME! WEIGH THE HEART! BREAK THE LIE! NONE ARE LOST! NONE CAN HIDE! An-pu… An-pu… Guardian of the gate. An-pu… An-pu… Let the heart reveal its weight. --- [Verse 2] He wrapped the king in linen, he blessed the nameless poor. For death erases hierarchy when the soul approaches shore. He does not ask your fortune. He does not praise your throne. He asks what you protected when you thought you stood alone. Did you shelter those beneath you? Did you feed another’s flame? Did you turn your pain to mercy, or make others bear the same? --- [Pre-Chorus 2] There are no forgotten footsteps. There are no invisible tears. The guardian keeps the ledger of the love that conquered fear. --- [Chorus] The scales remember everything, every promise, every scar. Every time you chose compassion, every time you broke a heart. The scales remember everything. No illusion crosses through. When your heart is weighed against the feather, will the feather rise for you? Anubis, keeper of the crossing, stand beside me through the night. Strip away the false within me. Lead me naked into light. --- [Breakdown: half-time, intimate baritone] I am not afraid of dying. I am afraid of reaching judgment with a life I never lived. I am afraid the heart within me will be heavy with the love I refused to give. So take my pride. Take my vengeance. Take the poison I defended. Let the person who awakens be more honest than the one whose journey ended. --- [Female Whisper] The feather does not punish. The feather only reveals. --- [Bridge: orchestral rise] Guide me through the Hall of Two Truths. Let no false confession stand. Place the courage of the living in the hollow of my hands. If I tremble at the threshold, do not turn your face away. Teach me death is transformation. Teach me night prepares the day. You are not the end awaiting. You are passage. You are guide. You are dignity preserved when every empire’s gods have died. --- [Final Chorus: key lift, full choir] THE SCALES REMEMBER EVERYTHING, but the heart can still be changed. Every wound can birth compassion. Every soul can be reclaimed. THE SCALES REMEMBER EVERYTHING. Let the final measure prove that the heaviest force in heaven is a mortal heart that loved. Anubis, keeper of the crossing, walk beside me through the night. Strip away the false within me. Lead me fearless into light. When the final gate is opened, when I hear eternity call, may my heart rise with the feather. May love outweigh it all. --- [Final Drop] WEIGH THE HEART! SPEAK THE NAME! BURN THE MASK! KEEP THE FLAME! NO MORE FEAR! NO DISGUISE! DEATH’S A DOOR! LOVE SURVIVES! An-pu… An-pu… Guardian of the gate. An-pu… An-pu… Let the heart reveal its weight. --- [Outro: desert wind, distant heartbeat] No gold. No throne. No mask. Only the heart. And the scales remember.
