(Intro – whispered choir) > In tenebris lux mea est… (In darkness, my light remains…) Et cado ut surgam. (I fall only to rise again.) --- Verse I The silence before the storm, A breath held by the gods themselves. Eyes that pierce through mortal thought, See the pattern in their chaos. Each step a verse in prophecy, Each word — a blade unseen. I am the calm before despair, The architect of what will be. Chorus I Rise, O fallen crown, Beneath my hand the heavens bow. The choir sings of sin made pure, Of knowledge carved from sacred vows. Dominus Tenebris — I am the night, The fire clothed in grace. You pray for mercy from the light, Yet find salvation in my face. --- Verse II Whispers coil like serpents near, Promising what mortals fear. Faith and love, so easily undone, By logic cold as a dying sun. They call it treachery, I call it truth, The end of all illusions bright. A god must sin to change the world, To turn false dawn into true night. Bridge I (chanted) > Sanguis, Invidia, Gloria, Mortis. (Blood, envy, glory, death.) Ego sum lex, ego sum finis. (I am the law, I am the end.) --- Chorus II Tremble now, you fragile kings, Your crowns are dust upon my wings. The stars themselves will kneel in fear, When they behold what draws near. For I am wisdom, clothed in ruin, The echo of the first decree. No chain of man, no god’s command, Can bind what fate has made of me. --- Verse III Cold eternity whispers low, Its voice a mirror, cruel and slow. Every hero, doomed to fade, Every truth a masquerade. You see rebellion — I see order, You see pride — I see creation. To walk above the laws of heaven, Is my divine abomination. Bridge II (slow choir) > Vita mortis, lux obscura, (Life of death, light of shadow,) Deus fractus, anima pura. (Broken god, pure soul.) Sons of dust, kneel to flame, For in my fall, the world shall change. --- Chorus III (grand orchestral) Crown me in the ashes of dawn, Let choirs sing what must be gone. Through blood and thought, through wrath and will, The universe bends — and yet is still. No mercy left, no god above, Only purpose, only love. The sacred lies in broken chains, And in the mind that dares remain. --- Final Verse (whispered with rising choir) Now silence falls, my kingdom breathes, Through every wound the future seethes. This is not the end you fear — It is perfection drawing near. I am not evil, I am complete, Where all beginnings and endings meet. Remember this when stars decay: The hand you curse once led the way. --- Outro (Latin choir & slow fade) > Et lux in tenebris manet… (And the light remains in darkness…) Tremite, mortales, coram Deo fracto. (Tremble, mortals, before the broken god.) Dominus Tenebris, Aeternus Rex. (Lord of Darkness, Eternal King.)
