Expanded Lyrics
[Intro – deep drones, fractured choir]
(Scar ignites… Monument calls…)
[Verse 1 – Kael, heavy and raw]
I feel the current in my skin,
Every life the Monument pinned.
Seraph shadows, Choir in white,
Lucienne’s eyes like burning night.
Chains of memory pull me near,
Marrow screams: “End it here!”
Every choice a shattered flame,
Every path repeats my name.
[Chorus – massive, anthemic, apocalyptic]
ASCEND OR COLLAPSE, BLOOD OR FLAME,
EVERY SOUL CALLS OUT MY NAME.
I am the scar, I am the cost,
I am the vessel of all who were lost.
ASCEND OR COLLAPSE, CHOIR OR VOID,
EVERY FUTURE WILL BE DESTROYED.
If I must burn, then let me rise,
A god reborn in shattered skies.
[Verse 2 – Lucienne (female, soaring, torn)]
Kael, my love, don’t turn away,
The Monument begs you to stay.
If you ascend, the world is whole,
If you collapse, we lose control.
[Kael, answering, desperate]
If wholeness means a gilded cage,
Then burn the choir, erase the stage.
I’ll bleed the scar, I’ll break the chains,
Let the Monument choke on pain.
[Bridge – cinematic surge, overlapping voices]
(Marrow: Burn it down!
Lucienne: Become divine!
Choir: Ascend… ascend…
Kael: The choice is mine!)
[Final Chorus – world-ending crescendo]
ASCEND OR COLLAPSE, SCAR IGNITE,
EVERY STAR IS BORN FROM NIGHT.
If I must fall, then let me reign,
A crown of fire, a throne of pain.
ASCEND OR COLLAPSE, NOW DECIDE,
EVERY SOUL STANDS BY MY SIDE.
I am the scar, I am the flame,
The Monument dies — or takes my name.
[Outro – collapsing drones, final whisper]
(The scar decides…)