[Intro]
[Crowd roar fades in]
Circle of fire
Ash in the air
Name’s on the banners
You sure you prepared? (hey!)
[Verse 1]
Step in the ring, I’m the warlock war-chief
Black flame crown, teeth full of spell-ink
You just paint sparks in the air like a street trick
I bend comets out their orbit, that’s real drift
I carved runes in my bones till they bled dust
Turned fear into fuel, turned rust into raw flux
You wave wands, weak palms, call that craft?
I cough in your cauldron and crack your staff
I stitched storms to my skin in the wastelands
Taught time how to crawl in my bare hands
You learned cute charms from a tower with a glass roof
I learned curses from the things that outlast truth
[Chorus]
This is spell-slinger showdown
Crowd screaming, “who’s next?” (who’s next?)
You brought stage tricks
I brought end times to the set
I’m the warlock, world-break
You’re a footnote, foot fake
When the smoke clears from this battlefield
Only my name stays
[Verse 2]
Oh, you the sorceress supreme? That’s a tall tale
Only crown that you wear is a small fail
Your “ancient tongue” just a choir of soft wails
My glossolalia makes galaxies frost pale
You lace potions like perfume, that’s cute
I lace plagues in a phrase, that’s brute
Your light show’s bright till my night grows teeth
I extinguish constellations when I grind my teeth
You riding dragons?
I raised your dragon from a fossil
Wrote wrath in its marrow
Made its fire gospel
You chant pretty patterns, tracing sigils like lace
I brand sigils in the sky, tear a scar in space
You got teachers, tutors, scrolls in stacks
I burned my mentors alive, then I wore their wrath
[Chorus]
This is spell-slinger showdown
Crowd screaming, “who’s next?” (who’s next?)
You brought stage tricks
I brought end times to the set
I’m the warlock, world-break
You’re a footnote, foot fake
When the smoke clears from this battlefield
Only my name stays
[Bridge]
[Music drops to halftime chug, drums pounding]
You call that a curse?
That’s a greeting (that’s a greeting)
You call that light?
That’s just fleeting
You call that power?
That’s a party game
I call one word
Erase your name
[Breakdown]
[Band cuts, crowd clap rhythm]
WAR-LOCK
(crowd: WAR-LOCK)
WAR-LOCK
(crowd: WAR-LOCK)
[Chorus]
This is spell-slinger showdown
Crowd screaming, “who’s next?” (who’s next?)
You brought stage tricks
I brought end times to the set
I’m the warlock, world-break
You’re a footnote, foot fake
When the smoke clears from this battlefield
Only my name stays