[Verse] Are you bound for the broken End? Pearl and dust and chorus vine Carry my grief to the one above She had been a love of mine Not as the beast with the acid breath Not as the wing over ruined stone Back when her hands knew tower and arch Back when her heart was her own [Chorus] She was once a true love of mine Before the void made her divine Before her cry split every wall Before we learned to crawl She was once a true love of mine A maker’s soul in a cursed design If she still dreams beneath that roar Tell her I mourn what came before [Verse] Tell her I kept the first black brick From the hall where we used to meet Where builders would measure a life well spent By the work laid under their feet Tell her the statues have all come down Tell her the gardens refuse to grow Tell her the names of the ones she took Still drift where no rivers go [Chorus] She was once a true love of mine Before the void made her divine Before her wings became our chain Before our speech turned strange She was once a true love of mine A maker’s soul in a cursed design If she still aches beneath that roar Tell her I knew her before [Bridge] We thought her asleep in the planet’s core A builder lost to a buried wound Then the tower fell, and the world gave way And something answered too soon She rose with a curse in her altered chest Her purple breath made brothers kneel Her gaze took hold of a million minds And taught dead hands to steal Now they carry dirt from distant fields Sand from deserts, moss from rain Trying to build what the curse destroys While none of them know her name [Verse] Tell her I walk where the small shards drift Past the gates where the blue souls pass I have no army, no iron blade Only this memory made to last Tell her the freed ones are almost gone Tell her we speak in a borrowed tongue Tell her I still see the builder there Under the monster she’s become [Chorus] She was once a true love of mine Before the void made her divine Before her sorrow learned to reign Before she gave us pain She was once a true love of mine A maker’s soul in a cursed design If she still weeps beneath that roar Tell her I loved her before [Chorus] She was once a true love of mine Before the void made her divine Before the End became a grave Before she made us slaves She was once a true love of mine Not just a terror in the sky If there is mercy past the roar Let her remember before [Outro] Are you bound for the broken End? Pearl and dust and chorus vine Carry my grief to the one above She had been a love of mine
