"They asked me why I stayed. Why I didn't walk away. Why I chose the name. The debt. The rot. I stayed because the workers stayed. The ones who built this place with their hands. The ones who died in the fields. They stayed. So I stay. That's the only truth I know."
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[VERSE 1]
I walked the fields where my father walked.
Where the workers walked till their legs gave out.
I walked and I listened. I walked and I learned.
The ground doesn't forget. But the ground can heal.
If you give it time. If you give it what it's owed.
I'm not here to wash the name clean.
There's no clean for a name like Jakobs.
I'm here to build something new.
Something that doesn't need a creed.
Something built by hands that chose to stay.
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[HOOK]
REBUILD FROM ASHES. REBUILD FROM MUD.
FROM THE BONES OF THE WORKERS. FROM THE BLOOD.
REBUILD FROM THE PROMISE THAT THE WORKERS KEEP.
NOT A NAME. NOT A CROWN. JUST A PLACE
THAT THE WORKERS CAN CALL THEIR OWN.
REBUILD FROM ASHES. REBUILD FROM STONE.
I'M NOT MY FATHER. I'M NOT ALONE.
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[VERSE 2]
Hammerlock stood beside me.
He said "you're not the blade. You're the hand that could heal."
I didn't believe him. But he stayed.
And I swore I'd be someone worth staying for.
The workers came to me one by one.
They said "we don't trust the name.
But we saw you in the mud. We saw you stay.
We'll stay too. For now."
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[BRIDGE]
"They asked me if the debt could be paid. If the ground could be healed. I don't know. But I know the workers are watching. I know the children are waiting. And I have to try."
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[VERSE 3]
We tore down the old walls. We let the light in.
We planted new trees where the old ones fell.
We let the workers name the fields.
Their names. The ones who died. The ones who stayed.
We wrote their names in the stone.
Aurelia came back once. She stood at the edge.
She didn't speak. But she looked.
A crack in the ice. That's something.
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[FINAL HOOK]
REBUILD FROM ASHES. REBUILD FROM MUD.
FROM THE BONES OF THE WORKERS. FROM THE BLOOD.
WE BUILT IT DIFFERENT. WE BUILT IT FROM GROUND
THAT WAS NEVER OURS. THAT WAS NEVER FOUND
IN THE JAKOBS NAME. WE BUILT IT FROM THE ONES WHO STAYED.
REBUILD FROM ASHES. REBUILD FROM STONE.
I'M NOT MY FATHER. I'M NOT ALONE.
WE BUILT IT DIFFERENT. WE BUILT IT FROM ASH.
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[OUTRO]
"They asked me why I stayed. I stayed because the workers stayed. Because the ground stays. Because the ghosts stay. And if I stay… maybe one day, the debt is paid. Maybe one day, the Jakobs name means something other than blood."
"That's the wager. That's the promise. That's the rebuild."
AsheTheHyena
