(Intro — shouted) One throne! One lie! One blood! One sky! Who's your father? Who decides? (Verse 1) Prime years buried under rows of white stone, Every mother's tears become the state's own. Love outlawed, truth chained at the gate, Loud girls branded enemies of the state. Books burn slower than a frightened tongue, Every anthem praises only one. (Pre-Chorus) Raise the banner. Bow the head. Trade tomorrow for the dread. (Chorus) Bastard King! Bastard King! Building crowns from broken things. You can steal the cradle, forge the ring— Every empire rots within. Bastard King! Bastard King! Hear the choir refuse to sing. You own the palace, not the spring. The future will not wear your skin. (Verse 2) Graduation day became a marching line, Bodies counted like another tax to sign. Choice erased beneath official seals, History edited by polished steel. Years rolled over, silence learned to crawl, Every portrait watched us from the wall. (Bridge — spoken over feedback) Then the records cracked. The blood would not lie. Every child... The same inheritance. Not a nation. A mirror of one man's hunger. (Final Chorus) Bastard King! Bastard King! Every lie has brittle wings. You can poison roots with fear and sting, But forests rise where tyrants sink. Bastard King! Bastard King! No throne outlives the truth it brings. Ashes crown the would-be king— No one kneels. No one sings. (Outro — gang chant) Not your blood. Not your name. Not your kingdom. Not again.
