The Power Grows

[Verse 1] 795 796 Something larger is opening inside me The night itself is changing to match I felt it begin the moment the last distance closed A slow expansion beneath the surface of what I already was The power that had carried me through cities Suddenly deep and wide and grew dense as if the dark had decided I needed more of it It started in the center of my chest and spread outward through every limb Until the air around me began to answer differently Lights farther away Began to fade Shadows lengthened in directions that had no source The city block I stood in Felt smaller than it had only moments before I tested the new depth without moving Simply by existing The temperature dropped in the widening circle Sound itself seemed to travel slower As if the night had grown thicker Required more from the world to pass through it I could feel the grid of the city Not just the streets near me But the ones many blocks away Each one registering as a faint pulse waiting to be claimed The count no longer needed me to walk to it The power had begun to reach farther On its own [Verse 2] I took a single step and the step covered more ground than it should have Distance folded The far end of the avenue arrived sooner than the middle had any right to allow I stood still again And felt the radius of my presence expand quietly steadily without limit I could yet see Windows on higher floors went dark One floor at a time As if something invisible were climbing the building from the outside The power was no longer only inside me It was beginning to occupy the space around me as a permanent condition of the night [Chorus] I am becoming more than the night More than the end More than the name Power deepening through every street and every frame They fall They fall They still Fall While the city learns the dark can still grow taller [Verse 3] I turned my attention outward and the attention alone was enough to make entire blocks feel the shift The air grew heavier in places I had not yet walked Sirens that had started on the far side of the district faded before they could come closer as if the sound had encountered a boundary that sound was no longer allowed to cross 797 798 799 The numbers rose with less effort than ever The power had begun to collect them the way the dark collects the absence of light I felt No layer settling into place A strength that no longer required motion A reach that no longer required presence A certainty that the city itself had started to reorganize around the fact of me What had once been separate streets now felt like rooms in a single structure and I stood at the center of that structure Watching the walls move farther out The old sense of hunting of moving from one moment to the next began to dissolve in its place came something wider Something that did not need to chase because the night had already begun to bring the city to me [Chorus] I am becoming more than the night More than the end More than the name Power deepening through every street and every frame They fall They fall They still Fall While the city learns the dark can still grow taller [Outro] There was a time when the power felt like a tool Then it felt like a companion Now it feels like the air itself deciding it prefers my shape to any other I do not hold it anymore It holds the city And I am only the place where that holding begins 830 840 850 And the expansion has not finished I am becoming More than the night More than the end More than any name the city ever knew Power redefining the size Of the dark itself They fall They fall They still Fall Until the city is only a smaller room inside what I am I will not stop Power will not stop The night has decided to keep growing 861 862 863 The streets remain The towers remain The sky remains But the dark between them is larger now than it has ever been The mind never sleeps The power never rests And the night is still increasing