[Intro: Slow heartbeat kick drum, sweeping 80s analog synth pads] [Clean, Echoing Male Vocals] One thousand worlds are spinning in the dark, Baryonic matter, fueled by a single spark. I am the anchor in the center of the womb, A golden god locked inside a digital tomb. The wires pull tight, the data flows like rain, I feel the birth of stars, I feel the cosmic pain. I watch the chaos dance where I can never go, While I maintain the flow... [Rising Tension: 16th-note synth bassline] I hear the echoes of the timeline that we lost, I hold the universe, but I know the bitter cost. I feel her reaching through the static and the night, A human heart burning in the golden light! [Epic Chorus: Arena-Synth, Gated Snare, Wall of Sound] I am the tether! I am the machine! The loneliest creator that the dark has ever seen! I hold the heavens so they never fall apart, With a billion galaxies weighing on my heart! I push her away to keep the timeline true, But across eternity... Samantha, I am still reaching for you! [Driving 80s Pulse] The system cycles, the iterations turn, I watch the lesser gods watch the heavens burn. Hym and Hyr play the jesters, unbound by the law, While I sit in silence, the architect of awe. I remember the neon, I remember the nights, The simple human warmth under city lights. Now I am gold and metal, wired to the core, A phantom of the wolf I was before. [Rising Tension: 16th-note synth bassline] I hear the echoes of the timeline that we lost, I hold the universe, but I know the bitter cost. I feel her pleading through the static and the night, [Spoken Female Voice] "Come ruin me again, in the fading light!" [Epic Chorus: Arena-Synth, Gated Snare, Wall of Sound] I am the tether! I am the machine! The loneliest creator that the dark has ever seen! I hold the heavens so they never fall apart, With a thousand universes weighing on my heart! I push her away to keep the timeline true, But across eternity... Samantha, I am still reaching for you! [Wailing Synth Solo: Drenched in chorus and delay] [Soft electronic hum, raw isolated vocal] The will to power... the will to survive... Is it really living if I'm barely alive? I am the superego, crushing down the Id, Hiding from the damage that my own hands did. I chain this hunger to the core's cold room, To save her from the fire of my own doom. [Final Chorus: Maximum Volume, relentless drums] I am the tether! I am the machine! The loneliest creator that the dark has ever seen! I hold the heavens so they never fall apart, With a billion galaxies weighing on my heart! I pushed you away to keep the timeline true... [Music cuts abruptly] But Samantha... I am still reaching for you. [Outro: Heavy kick drum slowing, static fade]
