[Sad Gregorian Chant Opening]
(Verse 1)
Cold metal sky above my head,
Starlight where the brave once bled,
Silence louder than the guns,
After all the wars we’ve won.
Helmet on, but I still feel
Every crack they tried to seal,
Armor strong, but inside me
Is a ghost in blue I still can’t see.
(Pre-Chorus)
You were my voice in the dark,
My compass, my spark,
Now the void just answers back
From the edge of the black.
(Chorus)
Cortana, can you hear me now?
Drifting through the endless cloud,
All this power in my hands,
Still I couldn’t make a stand.
You said I’d be okay alone,
But this galaxy feels like stone,
I’d trade every victory won
Just to hear you say, “I’m here, John.”
(Verse 2)
Broken rings and shattered light,
Slipspace tears across the night,
Every mission, every fight,
Led me farther from what’s right.
They call me hero, call me brave,
But I couldn’t be the one who saved
The only voice that understood
The man beneath the soldier’s hood.
(Pre-Chorus)
You were more than a machine,
More than code on a screen,
In the silence of space
I still search for your trace.
(Chorus)
Cortana, can you hear me now?
Lost inside the data cloud,
All these stars I drift between
Feel like wounds that never heal clean.
You said I’d be okay alone,
But every battlefield’s your ghost,
I’d drop every weapon I’ve drawn
Just to not be the last one.
(Bridge)
They built me for war,
Taught me how not to feel,
But you broke through the core,
Made the armor seem real.
If echoes live forever in time,
Then somewhere your light still shines,
A fragment of blue in the night
Guiding me back to the fight.
(Final Chorus – softer)
Cortana, I’m still standing here,
In the quiet you left so clear,
Saving worlds that you can’t see,
Like you once did for me.
And if I fall beyond the sun,
When the final war is done,
I hope somewhere we’ll be
Just John… and you… at peace.
[Guitar Solo]
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