CIPHER

[Verse 1] I woke beneath a colorless sky, No past in my hands, no reason why. A broken world was calling my name, So I rose from the dust and walked into flame. A city of light with blood underneath, Peace built high on manufactured grief. They called them lost, they marked them wrong, I had no answers — I just carried on. [Pre-Chorus] No memory to guide me, No promise waiting home. Only voices through the static, Saying, “Don't leave us alone.” [Chorus] Call me cipher, call me zero, Call me nothing if you need. I don't need a name to follow Where another heart still bleeds. If the road keeps disappearing, I'll make one beneath my feet. I may be no one in this world, But I still choose what I will be. [Verse 2] One year beneath the desert sun, Steel worn thin, but still not done. Every victory turned to sand, Every fallen face still in my hands. I watched the desperate reach for power, Watched hope become a burning tower. The weak can wound, the saved can fall, No side stays righteous after all. [Pre-Chorus] So I stopped asking Who deserved the blame. When someone reached across the dark, I answered all the same. [Chorus] Call me cipher, call me zero, Call me nothing if you need. I don't need a name to follow Where another heart still bleeds. If the road keeps disappearing, I'll make one beneath my feet. I may be no one in this world, But I still choose what I will be. [Verse 3] Then I saw my face across the room, Wearing the body I once knew. The frame was mine, the will was not, A perfect shell of what I'd lost. They said, “Look closely — that's the truth. You're just a shadow, a substitute.” But truth is more than steel and bone. A borrowed frame can still become its own. [Bridge] If I am only copied steel, Then let my choices make me real. If I began as empty space, I'll fill that void with every step I take. No origin can own me. No maker speaks for me. I am not the shape they gave — I am the one I chose to be. [Final Chorus] Call me cipher, call me zero, Call me nothing one last time. There are lives below still waiting, There is one more fire to climb. If the sky comes falling toward them, Then I'll meet it on the way. I don't need to come back home If they can see another day. Call me cipher, call me zero, Erase my number, lose my name. If there's nothing left behind me, Still, the world won't be the same.