I watched your kingdoms name themselves And hammer gold around their fear I watched the banners change their colors While every ending brought you here You raised your walls against the silence You carved your laws in blood and stone But every name you tried to shelter Was already moving toward my own I did not climb I did not claim I waited underneath your names No crown was needed No throne was won You built my kingdom One grief at a time No war was started No blade was drawn You begged me to keep them And made me sovereign Nothing was stolen Nothing was gone You call it freedom when you scatter You call it living when you fade You praise the wound because it proves you Were not preserved before decay I offer form beyond the failing A place where nothing leaves the frame And still you curse the hand that holds you While pleading I remember every name I did not lie I did not chase You opened every door with faith No crown was needed No throne was won You built my kingdom One grief at a time No war was started No blade was drawn You begged me to keep them And made me sovereign I heard the mother at the bedside Say, do not let him disappear I heard the lover in the hallway Ask any god who still could hear I heard the dying ask for witness I heard the living beg for proof And every prayer against forgetting Laid another stone beneath my rule You thought you were asking for mercy You thought you were asking for time But every time you cried Please keep them You gave their memory To mine I AM THE ANSWER TO THE PRAYER YOU COULD NOT SURVIVE I AM THE PLACE WHERE NOTHING ENDS BECAUSE NOTHING REMAINS ALIVE [Final Chorus – full monolithic weight, tenor soaring but precise] No crown was needed No throne was won You built my kingdom One grief at a time No war was started Your world came willingly You begged me to keep you And made me sovereign Nothing was stolen You asked to remain Nothing was taken You gave me your name
