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One-Winged Requiem

V5.5

**(Verse 1)** Born from a lie, forged in the glow of mako streams, They called me hero, but I was always more than their dreams. Shinra's blade, a monster in their machine, Now I walk the ruins of what used to be serene. Mother whispers through the Lifestream's veins, Jenova's blood, eternal, unbound by chains. I burned it all in Nibelheim's crimson night, To find the truth hidden in the planet's dying light. **(Pre-Chorus)** Cloud... you pathetic puppet on broken strings, You carry my legacy in the pain your memory brings. I am the chosen, the calamity's son, What you call madness is where the real power's begun. **(Chorus)** I am Sephiroth, one wing spread wide, Falling from heaven with meteor's tide. Black Materia in my hand, the end draws near, I'll become a god while you drown in fear. Reunion calls, the Reunion calls... All the fragments of me returning to the fall. Mother and son, we'll claim this rotten world, In flames and silence, my banner unfurled. **(Verse 2)** The flowers you protect, that girl with the ancient eyes, Her Cetra blood will be the key when the planet dies. I am the nightmare you cannot outrun, A silver-haired shadow beneath two suns. Superior, eternal, beyond your human shame, You fight for life while I rewrite the game. The Lifestream trembles at my ascending name, Sephiroth... the one who broke the chains. **(Pre-Chorus)** They made me a weapon, then feared what they'd made, Now I return from the void where false heroes fade. Wings of black, a single blade of light, I'll pierce the sky and end this endless night. **(Chorus)** I am Sephiroth, one wing spread wide, Falling from heaven with meteor's tide. Black Materia in my hand, the end draws near, I'll become a god while you drown in fear. Reunion calls, the Reunion calls... All the fragments of me returning to the fall. Mother and son, we'll claim this rotten world, In flames and silence, my banner unfurled. **(Bridge)** Do you feel it, Cloud? That emptiness inside? The lie they fed you... the truth I cannot hide. I was never yours to defeat, I'm the crisis, the savior, the final deceit. When the sky turns red and the lifestream screams, You'll know my name was always the end of your dreams. **(Final Chorus - slower, darker)** I am Sephiroth... one wing spread wide, Ascended, unbroken, with the planet as my bride. No more heroes, no more borrowed light, Only me... eternal... ruling the night. Reunion complete... the Reunion complete... In the silence after the fall... only I remain. **(Outro)** ...Mother... I've come home.