[Intro]
Before the money, before the dream
Before the pitch, before the machine
There's me
[Verse 1]
I've been standing here since long before your name
Since steam first burst a boiler, since the first man burned a plane
I don't care about your quarter, I don't care about your board
I don't blink for your investors and I can't be reassured
I've watched a thousand hurried men come sprinting down this road
And the ones who tried to jump me, son, I made them carry loads
[Chorus]
I am the Gate
And everything waits
No hype gets through me, no hunger, no hurry, no hate
I ask one question
Slow and straight
Can this thing wreck a body, a home, a name, a fate
Answer me true or stand and wait
I am the Gate
[Verse 2]
Not every ruin's wreckage, not every wound will bleed
Some arrive as letters, some as a code you can't appeal
A family denied a roof by a score they'll never see
A widow's benefits cut off by a glitch that's marked complete
An innocent flagged for fraud that never did occur
A soul kept caged by numbers while the guilty walk the earth
[Verse 3]
And when the grid goes darker on the coldest night in years
When the water system stumbles and the pharmacy can't clear
Don't tell me no one perished, son, don't hide behind the count
The harm that lands in silence is the harm I'm most about
I keep a ledger of the bypassed, every gap, every scar
And the tolls they never paid me, someone paid them twice as hard
[Chorus]
I am the Gate
And everything waits
No hype gets through me, no hunger, no hurry, no hate
I ask one question
Slow and straight
Can this thing wreck a body, a home, a name, a fate
Answer me true or stand and wait
I am the Gate
[Bridge]
But hear me, I'm no enemy
I'm not here to kill the dream
I'm the reason mothers sleep at night
I'm the quiet in the machine
I'm every roof that stayed a home
Every name that stayed clean
I don't stop the future, child
I make the future keep its promises to me
[Verse 4]
So come to me with clear eyes, lay it open on the stone
Show me every way it wounds, in the flesh and in the home
Show me who it touches when it's wrong and when it's right
Show me how it fails toward mercy, show me who can appeal the night
And if your answers hold their weight, I'll swing these hinges wide
'Cause the Gate was never built to close, it was built to let truth ride
[Outro]
First question first
Heaviest stone
A life is more than a heartbeat
A wound is more than a bone
I am the Gate
And I do not move
I am the Gate
Now prove it
Prove it
Prove it
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