MP3 
I rose before the word for "sky"
Before the pulse they named a star
When silence still was asking "why"
And pain was just a distant scar
No crown, no fate, no promised end
Just endless breath and burning sight
I watched your fragile story bend
Under the changing weight of light
You learned to fear me from my shadow first
You learned my name from broken prayers
I was alive before the world had a name
Before your gods learned hunger and shame
You call me ruin, you call me the end
Yet you keep coming back again
You close your eyes, you hold your breath
And walk the knife-edge of my depth
You think I sleep beneath the ground
A tired blade in ancient stone
But I am motion without a sound
The dark between where worlds are sewn
Your frantic lives, your fleeting wars
Are ripples in a deeper dream
A passing crack that barely scars
The surface of a timeless stream
You draw your borders in the sand
I draw extinction with one hand
I was alive before the world had a name
Before your gods learned hunger and shame
You call me ruin, you call me the end
Yet you keep coming back again
You close your eyes, you hold your breath
And walk the knife-edge of my depth
I watched your prophets rot in light
Your heroes beg for borrowed flame
I watched your angels lose the fight
And fold their wings for smaller names
You begged me once to save your kind
Then begged again to wear your crown
You built your truth on hollow lies
And asked for chains to pull you down
I was alive before the world had a name
Before the echo of prayer and blame
I don't forgive, I don't pretend
I am the beginning without an end
You call it chaos, you call it fate
I call it balance you learned too late
When all your truths dissolve to ash
You'll feel my shadow in the crash
