[Intro ]– {whispered over clean guitar}:
They know me by a username...
Mitochondrial DNA.
They think it's just a name.
They have no idea...
I've been carrying survival
Long before they learned
How to weaponize a screen.
[Verse 1]
I remember smoke against the sky... The thunder of horses... Children hidden while the old ones died...
Mother to daughter... Heartbeat to heartbeat... I carried the fire that refused to disappear.
I stitched together broken flesh... Held the pulse through every test... Generation after generation... One command remained...
SURVIVE!
[Pre-Chorus]
No wolves...
No soldiers...
No arrows flying through the night...
Just strangers...
Throwing stones...
From behind a glowing light.
[Chorus]
You searched the blood...
You searched the bone...
You called her damaged...
You called her wrong...
But mitochondrial...
Never forgets...
I was only trying...
Trying...
To keep her alive.
[Verse 2]
Every rumor...
Every lie...
Every knock that shattered sleep...
Every whisper...
Every name...
Every scar too deep to see...
The alarms never stopped...
So neither could I...
Every cell cried out...
DANGER!
Again...
Again...
Again...
[Breakdown]{spoken over crushing guitars}:
I know famine.
I know conquest.
I know exile.
I know survival.
What I don't understand...
Is a species...
That feeds on one of its own...
Then blames the blood...
For remembering.
[Final Chorus]
You searched the blood...
But never your own...
You hunted the survivor...
And crowned yourselves whole...
Mitochondrial...
Still remembers...
Every woman...
Who refused...
To disappear.
[Outro ]{whispered}:
They called me...
Mitochondrial DNA.
Not because I was broken...
Because I remembered...
How to survive...
