- - - - - -- - - - - - - - - - - - The Harmonic Guild - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - [Intro] [solo concert grand piano, slow minor progression] [dark strings swell, distant city ambience, vinyl crackle] Yeah... The city don't sleep... It just closes its eyes and counts its sins. [Verse 1] [male low voice, calm but intimidating] I came from a place where the cold had a name Where every handshake came attached to a game Where mothers prayed while the sirens sang And young hearts learned what the streets explained I watched brothers turn ghosts for a piece of the crown Watched kings get buried while the rumors went round Everybody got a story they refuse to confess Everybody got a suit hiding holes in their chest I know men with diamonds that can't sleep at night Men with power still afraid of the light 'Cause the mirror don't care what you own or control It only shows the damage buried deep in your soul [Hard drums enter] [heavy snare, dark wobble bass] I learned the code from the ones before me The ones who disappeared and left warnings for me Never trust a smile when the room gets quiet Never count your blessings around those who deny it The city raised me with a fist and a lesson Taught me every favor comes with an obsession A debt ain't money, a debt is a chain And everybody wants a piece of your name [Hook] [haunting choir, orchestral piano] Tell me who survives when the smoke clears out When the wolves stop talking and the kings fall down When the gold turns dust and the stories get old What's left of a man when he loses control? I seen heaven in faces that lived through hell I seen demons in suits that were hiding well Everybody got secrets they carry alone Everybody builds a kingdom over a broken home [Verse 2] [piano darker, drums heavier] I had conversations with the voice in my head About the roads I walked and the things that I said About the lines crossed and the bridges burned About the pages of life that can never be turned They say revenge is a dish best served cold But nobody tells you what it does to your soul You win every battle, you still might lose The hardest war is the one you choose I seen loyalty bought, I seen trust get sold Seen young men become what they hated the most Chasing a vision that was never their own Building a palace just to sit there alone The streets got a language, I learned every word Between every silence and every unheard A thousand voices telling me who I should be But none of them know what it cost to be me [Bridge] [orchestra rises, piano solo underneath] No angels here... No villains clear... Just people trying to survive With the weight of the years. [Final Chorus] [full cinematic orchestra, crushing drums] Tell me who survives when the smoke clears out When the names fade away and the lights burn out When the world forgets everything you achieved What remains when there's nothing left to believe? I don't need forgiveness from a world full of lies I just need the truth when I look in my eyes A man is not measured by the throne that he owns But the war he endured when he stood there alone [Outro] [piano fading, distant sirens] The city remembers... Even when nobody speaks. [Instrumental Plays To Fade]