[Verse 1]
I saw the weakness in their creed
The Clave dressed their doubt as piety
They call it balance, I call disease
A tainted bloodline left to bleed
I marked my flesh with runes divine
Carved by stele and angel sign
Not born to kneel, nor coexist
But to erase what should not exist
[Chorus]
Children of Morgenstern born in fire
Fed by the Clave’s betrayed desires
The Mortal Cup lies within reach
To purify the Shadowhunter race
With runes engraved and seraph steel
I make the Nephilim bloodline whole
Let wolf and warlock kingdoms burn
The pure through angel fire return
[Verse 2]
Clary, your mother kept you from this world
Buried the truth in stories untold
Angel fire sleeping in your soul
Power she feared to let you know
You draw runes no law can bind
A gift the Clave has feared through time
Leave the Institute, come stand with me
Become the fate they’ll never see
[Pre-Chorus]
You say evil, I say necessity
Morgenstern’s your identity
You call it darkness, I call fate
Even angels learn too late
[Chorus]
Children of Morgenstern born in fire
Fed by the Clave’s betrayed desires
The Mortal Cup lies within reach
To purify the Shadowhunter race
With runes engraved and seraph steel
I make the Nephilim bloodline whole
Let wolf and warlock kingdoms burn
The pure through angel fire return
[Verse 3]
Jace, I turned Wayland to Morgenstern
And watched my children’s love be torn
To love is to destroy, I showed
What weakness costs, what power holds
I fed you angel blood in youth
To make your living flesh a truth
No common Shadowhunter was my son
I made you more than mortal ones
With runes cut bright by stele fire
I forged you toward a father’s desire
Your seraph blades sang before you knew
The angel in your veins burned through
You needed proof of what I told
[Refrain]
The falcon I gave you, trained for obedience
You turned it to love, so I showed you why
A weapon made gentle forgets to obey
So I killed what you cherished that day
Love makes it weaker, easy to break
Mercy is nothing a king can’t forsake
[Bridge]
I have seen what angels made
Marked in fire, we do not obey
The Mortal Instruments bend beneath my hand
To remake this broken land
They call it balance, I call decay
I was chosen to unmake
No love survives where power endures
Only the bloodline that remains pure
Raziel, witness what I become
[Final Chorus]
Children of Morgenstern born in fire
Fed by the Clave’s betrayed desires
The Mortal Cup lies within reach
To purify the Shadowhunter race
With runes engraved and seraph steel
I make the Nephilim bloodline whole
Let wolf and warlock kingdoms burn
The pure through angel fire return
[Outro]
Clary, come see
Jonathan, remember me
The Mortal Cup is waiting
The blood will answer
Blood does not forget
You were never meant to be free
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