[Intro] Here I wait. Here I stand. Here I fight. And here I fall. [Verse 1] Infinity stretches out beyond, A thousand choices, all now one. It’s always been here, under skin, A single moment born in sin. The last war tore the world apart, And let the hunger learn our hearts. We sealed the breach with steel and stone, Then swore the line would never fall. My Rig’s a shadow over stone, Ten meters tall, but not alone. Reactor-thrum and plated chest— A walking “no”, they’ll never best. [Pre-Chorus] Gyro steady. Coolant cold. Servos sing what vows can’t hold. If something moves beneath that seam, It meets the iron and the scream. [Chorus] So here I stand, and here I wait, Guardian of the forbidden gate, Here I fight and here I fall, Protecting you from it all. [Verse 2] I ride the Badlands, dust and bone, Where every signal dies alone. Each footfall hits like distant guns, And wakes the dark things that run. Callisto rides my neural net, A cold, clear voice that never bets, She finds the seam where they will tread, She tags the kill-zone—paint it red. We push out far to bleed them dry, So nothing gathers in the sky. We burn the nests, we break the packs— Then drag their nightmare bodies back. [Pre-Chorus] If the line bends, we don’t retreat, We drive it straight with iron feet. No victory hymn, no medal wall— Just keep them out. That’s all. That’s all. [Chorus] So here I stand, and here I wait, Guardian of the forbidden gate, Here I fight and here I fall, Protecting you from it all. [Bridge] (half-time / heavy) I'm still here, Ten meters of steel, Blade and all, I hold the wall. [Spoken] (Callisto over radio static) CALLISTO: “Motion in the waste. Multiple contacts.” RIDER: “Range.” CALLISTO: “Closing fast.” RIDER: “Good. Let them come.” [Bridge 2] They want the Gate. They want the light. They want the world back in that night. But I was built for this alone— To be the storm. To be the wall. [Final Chorus] (bigger) So here we stand, and here we wait, Guardian of the forbidden gate, Here we fight and here we fall, Protecting you from it all. [Outro] Here we wait. Here we stand. Here we fight. And here we'll fall.
