[Intro (Gregorian Chant – choir, distant and reverent)]
In aeternum regnant dracones…
Super terram et sanguinem…
(Dragons reign forever… over land and blood…)
[A sacred tone that feels like a truth carved into stone… until Donna enters.]
[Verse 1 – Isolde: (controlled, regal K-Pop vocal over low bass + choir pads)]
They ruled before your prayers had names
Before your kingdoms learned their claims
You call it fear, I call it law
A world held firm by ancient claw
You think in lives, in fleeting breath
They think in centuries beyond your death
So bow your pride, your fragile flame
History remembers only their name
[Verse 2 – Donna: (warmer voice, but sharp; percussion enters subtly)]
You call it law, I call it ash
Burned-out fields and a midnight crash
You speak like silence is something divine
But I’ve seen what it costs every time
Centuries don’t justify the fire
When it leaves a child in the wire
If your gods need screams to remain
Then I won’t call that sacred—I call it pain
[Pre-Chorus – Isolde: (chant-like, rising harmony)]
You cannot change what the sky has written…
You cannot break what the world has been…
[Pre-Chorus – Donna: (steadier, grounded beat enters)]
Then I’ll write back with every name I know
Every burned town in the undertow
If your truth demands we all kneel low
Then it’s a lie I refuse to know
[Chorus – Both: (K-Pop drop, Gregorian chant layered underneath)]
[Isolde:]
We are the crown of embers, eternal flame
Not gods to question, not beasts to tame
[Donna:]
Then I am the ash that refuses to bow
The world is not what you demand it now
[Together (clashing harmonies):]
Kneel in the echo of what we’ve done / or rise in the breaking of what we’ve become
[chant beneath]
Regnabit draco… / sed sanguis clamat…
(The dragon reigns… / but blood cries out…)
[Verse 3 – Isolde: (cooler, almost sorrowless conviction)]
You call it cruelty, I call it order
A world survives within their border
Without them, chaos takes its throne
You would not last in a world alone
[Verse 4 – Donna: (emotion rises, but controlled anger)]
No—what survives is what’s left behind
When power decides who gets to define
You don’t preserve, you preserve control
And call it destiny carved in the soul
I’ve buried names you’d never know
Because your “order” told it so
And if survival means we forget
Then I choose memory over regret
[Final Chorus – Full clash (choir + heavy K-Pop percussion + rising chant)]
[Isolde:]
We are the crown of embers, eternal flame
[Donna:]
And I am the voice you cannot reclaim
[Isolde:]
Kneel in the echo of what we’ve done
[Donna:]
Or stand in the truth that we’ve only begun
(chant swells into conflict)
Draco regnat… / sed vox humana surgit…
(The dragon reigns… / but the human voice rises…)
[Outro – overlapping collapse into chant]
[Isolde (fading):] They will be worshiped… as they must be…
[Donna (fading):] They will be answered… as they must be…
In tenebris… finis non scriptus est…
(In darkness… the ending is not yet written…)
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