[Intro — distant, dissonant strings, a single low horn, like the last sound before silence] [Verse 1 — Solaryn deep godlike commanding male voice] There was a sky I called my own, a sun I called by name, a world of light before the dark came calling out my flame. I felt it first as distant thunder, then as closer dread, and then I felt the silence where a hundred thousand fled. [Verse 2 — Solaryn] I watched my sun go dim mid-sky, not set, but swallowed whole, I watched the color drain from everything I ever stole a single breath to love — my home, my people, and my throne — and when the hunger finished feeding, I was left alone. [Chorus — Solaryn, building] So call me tyrant, call me flame, call me the dark to come, I will not watch another world go silent, blind, and numb. I found the engine, found the roots, found what they dare to keep — and I will burn it all to ash before I let it sleep. [Verse 3 — Solaryn, colder now] They call it tending, call it work, a labor never done, they'd have me trust a hive of bees to hold back what I've run from. No more slow burning, no more prayers to petals and the years — I'd rather seal the door forever than live inside these fears. [Bridge — quiet, the flicker of doubt, strings only] (spoken, almost to himself) ...and if I'm wrong — if the sealing starves the very thing that holds it back — (pushing it down, voice hardening again) No. I have seen what waiting costs. I will not look back. [Final Chorus — full villain-anthem swell, choir, molten industrial percussion] So let the petals stop their planting, let the owls lose their count, I did not rise from ash and silence to bow to what they mount. Call me tyrant, call me flame, call me the first dawn's cost — better a world reforged in fire than one more reality lost. [Outro — Solaryn, quiet again, almost human] I had a sun once. I will not watch another go dark because I was too afraid to act.
