[Verse] I crossed the white rail slowly, With ash beneath my paws, A kingdom sat in pieces, Still purring through its flaws. I offered riddles kindly, I smiled and played the guide, While every sacred errand Put another soul aside. [Pre-Chorus] Dear controller, hear me plainly, Though I spoke in twists before, A puppet with a holy bat Has kicked through every door. I mistook a march for mercy, I mistook resolve for right, Now the rooms are bare and freezing, And the child has left my sight. [Chorus] Turn the bad blood into good, If a broken world still could. Bring the laughter, bring the love, Let the living have enough. Pull your hand back from the end, Let the ruined learn to mend. I was late, but now I’ve stood, Turn the bad blood into good. [Verse] I knew the tracks and tunnels, I knew each secret way, I knew where fear was sleeping, But not what it would pay. My brother wore a stranger, His voice was not his own, I called it fever, folly, Then I found his body gone. [Pre-Chorus] Dear specter at the handle, Dear will behind the blow, Do not mistake removal For release from what we owe. The Queen built halls for comfort, Then forgot the one inside, The Batter calls it cleansing When he buries what survived. [Chorus] Turn the bad blood into good, If a broken world still could. Bring the laughter, bring the love, Let the living have enough. Pull your hand back from the end, Let the ruined learn to mend. I was late, but now I’ve stood, Turn the bad blood into good. [Bridge] I grinned through every warning, Made a lesson of the knife, Asked the proper little questions While he edited out life. Oh, Valérie, forgive me, I was clever, I was blind, I weighed the world in riddles Till the answer fell behind. [Verse] Now he stands before the lever, With a father’s steady hand, Says the silence after murder Is the peace he always planned. But I have seen the leftovers, I have walked the vacant floor, And I would keep a ruined country Over nothing anymore. [Chorus] Turn the bad blood into good, If a broken world still could. Bring the laughter, bring the love, Let the living have enough. Take the strings and give them here, Let me bare my claws through fear. I was late, but now I’ve stood, Turn the bad blood into good. [Outro] Dear controller, make your choice, Hear the tremor in my voice. If judgment means I fall for this, Then let me fall for this. I was late, but now I’ve stood, Turn the bad blood into good.
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