[Teenage male voice]
[VERSE 1 – soft, intimate]
I lived among you, I broke and I bled,
Your sorrow was mine, every tear that you shed.
No noble heart was ever unknown,
Now I walk into shadow, alone but my own.
[VERSE 2 – airy, restrained]
I leave no heir, no crown, no name,
No song to hold me, no lasting flame.
My name will pass like a flash in the sky,
An echo fading as centuries fly.
[VERSE 3 – rising tension]
But you who knew me, remember this truth:
I spent my young years steering for you.
While the ship still fought, I stood on the mast,
When it went under — I sank with the past.
[VERSE 4 – warm, resolute]
One day, when thinking of nations in pain,
The honest will see I carried no chain.
The cloak on my spirit was not begged or torn,
It shone with the light of those I was born from.
[VERSE 5 – dark, ritualistic]
Let my friends gather deep in the night,
Burn my poor heart till it turns into light.
Give it back to the one who gave it to me —
This is the price of love, this is the fee.
[VERSE 6 – solo, fragile]
Let them drink to my ending, and drink to their scars,
If I am a ghost, I’ll appear from the dark.
But if God sets me free from the weight that I bear,
I won’t return — I’ll be nowhere, not there.
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[CHORUS – EPIC, HOPEFUL]
I swear to the living: don’t bury your fire,
Carry the torch of the mind and desire.
And when it is needed, go one by one,
Like stones thrown by heaven, until it is done.
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[VERSE 7 – restrained strength]
I leave just a handful who loved who I was,
A proud, restless heart under heaven’s harsh laws.
I served a hard purpose, accepted the cost,
And agreed to a coffin the world never mourned.
[VERSE 8 – ethereal]
Who else walks away without applause or acclaim?
Who else learns silence instead of a name?
To steer a boat filled with spirits and prayers,
Then vanish as softly as breath in the air.
[VERSE 9 – dark, prophetic]
Yet something remains — a force you can’t see,
Useless in life, but heavy when free.
After my death it will press on your skin,
Till the bread-eaters turn into angels within.
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[FINAL CHORUS – FULL ORCHESTRA+ choir]
I swear to the living: don’t bury your fire,
Carry the torch of the mind and desire.
And when it is needed, go one by one,
Like stones thrown by heaven, until it is done.
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[(Choir)]
I swear to the living: don’t bury your fire,
Carry the torch of the mind and desire.
And when it is needed, go one by one,
Like stones thrown by heaven, until it is done.
[Outro drums]
[Instrumental
ALEKSKENO
