[Intro | ambient | oud | distant darbuka | dusty] *desert wind* (Pharaoh... my soul shall be thy eternal servant) [Verse 1 | soft | storytelling | intimate] I was just a boy when the serpent came Threw myself between its fangs and the prince's name The venom sang through me like a funeral hymn But he knelt in the dirt and he bled for him A pharaoh's son with his lips against my wound Said "You are my friend" beneath an Egyptian moon And something broke inside me, something sealed A debt no death could pay, a vow no tomb could steal [Verse 2 | warm | building slowly] They gave me the Ring — the cruelest of the seven Forged from ninety-nine souls screaming short of heaven I felt every ghost inside that golden band So I burned my own light just to hold their darkness back Seto called me weak, said my Ka was barely flame Let them mock the magician — I was guarding something they couldn't name Half my power spent suppressing what they'd done The sins of Kul Elna underneath an empire's sun [Chorus | warm | layered vocals | devotional] Eternal soul — I chose the dark so he could walk in light Eternal soul — I carried every shadow through the endless night Not because he asked, not because I'm bound I am the servant who would burn his soul down to the ground [Verse 3 | building intensity | emotional] I led the thief king deep beneath the stone Told my soldiers "Seal the tomb if I don't come home" No retreat, no rescue — just the bridge and the abyss Diabound tore through me, I could feel my Ka dismiss But I remembered hands that pulled the poison free So I cast the final spell that no one casts and lives to see Ba and Ka as one, the forbidden unification My body fell — my soul became his constellation [Chorus | warm | layered vocals | devotional] Eternal soul — I chose the dark so he could walk in light Eternal soul — I carried every shadow through the endless night Not because he asked, not because I'm bound I am the servant who would burn his soul down to the ground [Bridge | stripped back | intimate | spoken word fading to singing] Three thousand years inside a stone Then a card — then a boy who felt like home Yugi drew me like he always knew my name The heart of the cards, and mine still beats the same Mana found her fire on the day I died Isis wept in silence for a love unspoken I was already gone — already stone, already broken [Final Chorus | powerful | anthemic] ETERNAL SOUL — I CHOSE THE DARK SO HE COULD WALK IN LIGHT ETERNAL SOUL — I CROSSED TIME AND SPACE TO STAND WITH HIM TONIGHT Not because he asked — because a prince once bled for me I AM THE ETERNAL SOUL, AND I AM FINALLY FREE [Outro | fade out | oud | reverb tail] (My soul shall be thy eternal servant...) (Eternal... eternal...) [Fade Out] [End]
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