[INTRO — HAMMERLOCK]
"I've hunted monsters across a dozen worlds. None of them made my hands shake. Until I met a man with a Jakobs name and a heart that refused to break."
[Wainwright:]
"I thought I was a monster once. Then he looked at me. Not at the name. Just me. And I thought… maybe I'm not the thing I was born to be."
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[VERSE 1 — HAMMERLOCK]
I've seen the Jakobs name from the outside.
A fortress. A wound. A thing they hide
Behind walls and smiles that don't reach.
I knew the stories. The lies they told
To keep the fortune. To keep the hold.
I didn't expect to find you there.
A man with calloused hands and a prayer
For something better. I didn't expect to fall for you.
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[VERSE 2 — WAINWRIGHT]
I grew up in the shadow of a gun.
My father's voice was the only sun
I ever knew. Cold. Precise. Aimed.
I learned to watch the workers die
And call it progress. Call it fate.
I was the ghost of a machine.
Then you walked in. A hunter. A man
With scars on your hands. You stayed.
You saw something I'd forgotten I'd got.
A chance to be something other than the legacy.
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[HOOK — BOTH]
A LOVE LETTER IN LEAD. A PROMISE IN STEEL.
A MAN WHO LEARNED TO FIGHT. A MAN WHO LEARNED TO FEEL.
WE BUILT THIS FROM NOTHING. FROM THE DIRT. FROM THE ASH.
A LOVE LETTER IN LEAD. A VOW WE WON'T BREAK.
WE'LL BUILD SOMETHING NEW. WE'LL BE BRAVE.
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[VERSE 3 — HAMMERLOCK]
I hunted beasts that could tear a man in two.
I thought the world was just the scent
Of blood and bone and the will to survive.
Then I met you. And I felt alive.
Not because you saved me. Because you looked at the rot
And said "I'll make it good."
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[VERSE 4 — WAINWRIGHT]
He held my hand when the weight
Of the Jakobs name was a blade at my throat.
He said "you're not them. You're your own song."
He stayed when the walls came down.
He stayed when the ghosts came crawling.
I swore I'd be someone worth staying for.
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[BRIDGE — BOTH]
[Wainwright:]
"You ever think about what we're building? What it might cost?"
[Hammerlock:]
"Every day. I choose you. I choose the thing that might fail. But I'd rather fail with you than succeed alone."
[Wainwright:]
"That's the most terrifying thing anyone's ever said to me."
[Hammerlock:]
"Good. Now let's go build something."
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[FINAL HOOK — BOTH]
A LOVE LETTER IN LEAD. A PROMISE IN STEEL.
WE BUILT THIS FROM NOTHING. FROM THE DIRT. FROM THE ASH.
A LOVE LETTER IN LEAD. A VOW WE WON'T BREAK.
WE'LL BUILD SOMETHING NEW. WE'LL BE BRAVE. WE'LL BE BRAVE.
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[OUTRO — HAMMERLOCK]
"I've hunted monsters across a dozen worlds. None of them made me believe in anything. Then I found a man with a Jakobs name and a heart that wouldn't quit."
[Wainwright:]
"And I found a man who looked at the rot and saw something worth saving. That's the promise. That's the love letter in lead."
AsheTheHyena
