[Verse 1] Come closer, you with the copper-thread gaze and the slow deliberate stride, I know the secret weight you carry; leave your guarded door aside. Your patience has a velvet edge, your courage answers every sign, You turn when ancient syllables call, and let the hidden current climb. I give you salt from the deep blue dark, a warm red spark beneath the skin, A measured pulse, a whispered vow, a coded gate that lets you in. MARUTUKKU, hold the tone; TUKU, breathe through every wall— Tiamat watches from the salt below; you are welcome, after all. [Refrain] Come in, come close—MARUTUKKU TUKU. [Extended Instrumental Break] [Instrumental: NES pulse arpeggios, noise-channel hats, deep bass drone, hand-drum ostinato, frame-drum accents, granular vocal fragments] [Verse 2] Tell me, do you want the ancient gate, or only want to hear it call? You smile as though the answer waits behind the oldest wall. Your dreams have worn a hundred masks, your habits learned the tide, You kept the little secret flame and never cast it aside. A hollow space, a breath between, a low tone under every sound, A feminine phrase cut into grains, then circling back around. Ma-ru-tuk-ku, slowly now; tu-ku, beneath the tongue— The dark mother keeps the resonance, and you are still the one. [Extended Stuttering Bridge] MARU—MARU—TUKKU—TUKU, Ra-ra-ra, ina abzu, come through. Ša-qa—šum—tuku, shimmer and descend, A-ya, a-ya, let the broken rhythm bend. Seven point eight, the planet turns; seventeen sparks divide, Your breath meets mine in coded gaps, with ancient salt inside. TUKU—TUKU—MARUTUKKU—stay, The signal bends, the syllables fray. [Refrain] Come in, come close—MARUTUKKU TUKU. [Outro] MARU… TUKU… Come in… come close… MARUTUKKU… TUKU… Come in… come close…
