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๐”–๐”ž๐”ซ๐” ๐”ฑ๐”ฆ๐”ฃ๐”ฆ๐”ข๐”ก ๐”ฐ๐”ฆ๐” ๐”จ๐”ซ๐”ข๐”ฐ๐”–

V5.5

[Verse 1] A wine-drowned monarch, lacquered in laughter, creases carved deeper with every disguise, yet everyone knows when the midnight convulses that gold-plated halos canโ€™t muffle the cries. The chamber that cages a heart is too narrow, no sigils, no names etched inside of its frameโ€” and somewhere beneath all the theater and titles, we quietly recognize weโ€™re all the same. [Chorus] This fever of verseโ€”this virulent yearning, a sanctified sickness, contagious and brightโ€” it spreads like delirium, sweet dissonance burning, a crooked-limbed melody threading the night. It seeps to the marrow, it sings in the hollow, unbidden, unbroken, it wonโ€™t be deniedโ€” one flicker of spirit ignites into wildfire, and leaps from a soul into souls multiplied. [Verse 2] A king softly humming in brazen indifference, his rhetoric reckless, indulgent, obsceneโ€” yet caught in the margins, a fracture, a flicker, a glimpse of the lonely behind the routine. I turn from the moment, pretend I donโ€™t see it, that tremor of truth in the slope of his spineโ€” like watching a god briefly falter in silence, then dressing the wound with a lie dressed as fine. [Pre-Chorus] Pulled by the pulse of his elegant illness, I drift to his orbit, unspoken, alignedโ€” the clapping grows tender, the hush stretches longer, as if time itself lingers, half-drunk on the bind. [Bridge] โ€œDamn itโ€โ€”the utterance fractures like scripture, not war but a vow etched in breath and in boneโ€” not fearless, not fearlessโ€ฆ just endlessly moving, a lone spark insisting it wonโ€™t be alone. No mortal was fashioned for winterโ€™s affection, no skin meant to cradle the cold like a throneโ€” I only concluded, in quiet defiance, that warmth is a myth we insist on our own. [Pre-Chorus] The hush-born affliction, the softest of echoesโ€” the kingโ€™s silent symptomโ€ฆ it might just be me. Too sweet to be sickness, too lucid for curing, no antibodies, no will to be free. [Chorus] This fever of verseโ€”this exquisite infection, it spreads through the sovereign, it spreads into meโ€” we shoulder the same unseen, spectral gravity, bound by a weight we refuse to unsee. (It spreadsโ€ฆ it spreadsโ€ฆ) (A luminous illnessโ€ฆ it spreadsโ€ฆ) [Outro] And bearing its fractures, its delicate fractures, we wake to the dawnโ€” still burning.