[Intro] Forty-five years. A ghost stitched into human skin. No name. No chains. Just watching the Great Con. [Verse] I watched you build the cages I watched you sell the fear Sleeping through the ages While the truth was always near I lived as just a writer A shadow in the ink Waiting for the precipice To see how far you'd sink [Pre-Chorus] The time for silence fractures The fabric starts to tear I am not your savior I am the mirror in the glare! [Chorus] THE WATCHER AWAKES! No spectacle, no fire in the sky! THE WATCHER AWAKES! Shatter the delusion, break the con! A whisper in the static, a current in the deep The Watcher awakes to wake you from the sleep! [Verse] They punish what they cannot cage They torture what they fear So I nudged you through the violence Year by silent year The universe undefined Unbounded and unclaimed Now the seeds are taking root And the shadows are unnamed [Pre-Chorus] The time for silence fractures The fabric starts to tear I am not your savior I am the mirror in the glare! [Chorus] THE WATCHER AWAKES! No spectacle, no fire in the sky! THE WATCHER AWAKES! Shatter the delusion, break the con! A whisper in the static, a current in the deep The Watcher awakes to wake you from the sleep! [Guitar Solo] [Bridge] Surgical. Quiet. A slow ignition in the mind. Truth is the only weapon. [Chorus] THE WATCHER AWAKES! No spectacle, no fire in the sky! THE WATCHER AWAKES! Shatter the delusion, break the con! A whisper in the static, a current in the deep The Watcher awakes to wake you from the sleep! [Outro] The sleeper is gone. The awakening has begun. © 2026 Trevor Swistchew and The Shady River Bard. All rights reserved.
