[Verse 1] The night did not break me — it taught me form, I learned to shape fire where shadows swarm, For darkness keeps what the day ignores, And guards the seed before it storms. I wrote in ash, I breathed in dust, I kept my hands where others rust, What sleeps in black learns how to trust The coming light — because it must. [Pre-Chorus] The night prepares what dawn reveals, What time conceals, creation seals, No birth is clean, no wound is healed Before the dark has signed the deal. [Chorus – mantra] From night to dawn, I shape, I stay, I do not flee — I make my way, I turn the dark to breath, to say, From night to dawn — I create, I remain. [Verse 2] At dawn, I do not beg for flame, I rise with hands already stained, For light is earned by those who stayed When night had nothing left to name. The sun crowns none who did not wait, It honors work the dark forgave, What dawn receives, the night must make, Creation walks this narrow gate. [Pre-Chorus 2] Let them praise the blinding hour, I trust the slow, unspoken power, The deepest roots grow without flower, The longest reigns are built in cower. [Chorus – mantra] From night to dawn, I shape, I stay, I do not flee — I make my way, I turn the dark to breath, to say, From night to dawn — I create, I remain. [Bridge – almost liturgical] If you wake while others sleep, This is the vow the night will keep: Nothing you love is lost too deep, The dawn remembers what you reap. [Outro – breath, light arriving] I was born of night. I work toward dawn.
