[Intro – Wind over ruins, distant low hum]
The demons stop.
Not dead.
Still.
Watching.
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[Verse 1 – Slow realization]
Ash settles where blades just sang,
Void-born corpses where they once sprang,
Silence louder than the clang —
Wrong.
They part.
Not in fear.
In obedience.
A path carved through broken stone,
Black sun pulsing like a throne,
At the end… a shape alone —
Waiting.
Armor cracked in the same design,
Scars aligned with scars of mine,
Flame in his chest — but not like mine —
Darker.
He lifts his head.
And I see my own eyes
Looking back.
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[Chorus 1 – Uneasy, heavy]
Through a thousand shadows walking,
Through a thousand voices talking,
Every step led to this haunting —
Reflection.
Not demon, not disguise,
Not some trick before my eyes,
But the answer to the lies —
Of what I could become.
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[Verse 2 – Confusion and tension]
He doesn’t move — just stands in still,
Black flame steady, cold and filled,
Like a version forged by will —
Alone.
I feel it then — the pull inside,
The echo where our flames collide,
Not enemy across divide —
But parallel.
Memories flicker in his stance,
Ghost of Darius in his glance,
Seris’ silver in the chance —
That this is real.
My hand tightens on the blade,
But hesitation floods the rage,
Because the look upon his face —
Isn’t hate.
It’s exhaustion.
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[Chorus 2 – Dark realization]
Through a thousand shadows deeper,
Through the silence he’s the keeper,
If I strike him — am I reaper —
Or savior?
The black sun hums above his head,
Not rage, not hunger, not pure dread,
But something worse instead —
Survival.
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[Bridge – Low, tense metal build]
(Guitars pulse low, restrained)
If you’re me —
Speak.
If you’re not —
Bleed.
Why do you look like grief?
Why do you look like
I already lost?
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[Chorus 3 – Final, ominous]
Through a thousand shadows led,
I found the path I might have tread,
A crown of void, a sky of dead —
And me beneath it.
Two suns burning out of phase,
Two lives forged in different ways,
If one must end this mirrored blaze —
Which one?
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[Outro – The first words]
He finally speaks.
“You shouldn’t have come.”
ShadowSing
