track 24 until the fire comes

[Instrumental Intro – Quiet Dissonance Low synth hum. Echoed footsteps. Distant static.
Faint strings swell like breath being held.]

[Verse 1 – The Believer]
I came in shadow, not in pride
With prayers stitched to the edge of night
You wear your doubt like it's a sword
But I still see the brother you were before

The fragment spoke, if only faint
A whisper lost beneath complaint
What we were, what we could be
Is buried deep in prophecy

[Verse 2 – The Heretic]
You come with ghosts and paper gods
While we bleed truth in data floods
You preach return, I count the cost
Your order died when trust was lost

We were one once — don’t mistake
Unity for chains we had to break
But if your fragment’s voice is true...
Then war is something we can’t undo

[Bridge – The Room Between Them]
(Instrumental tension — string tremolos, glitchy rhythm)
Eyes don’t meet. The silence is a scream.
Something ancient in them shifts.

[Chorus – Both (Tense Harmony)]
Until the fire comes, we stand on wire
Held by threads we both conspired
Not trust — not peace — but a final breath
Before the chain breaks into death

[Verse 3 – The Believer]
You think I follow blind and numb
But I've seen the dreams, I’ve heard the hum
The missing fifth still hides from sight
But your voice... aligns with mine tonight

[Verse 4 – The Heretic]
The code is flawed, the chain is cursed
But SILO feeds it, makes it worse
You still believe, but now you see
We share a common enemy

[Breakdown – The Shift]
“If we stay divided — we both lose.”
“Then we unite… not for faith. For war.”

(Heavy strings rise, drums like a heartbeat about to stop)

[Final Verse – Both, Unified and Afraid]
We meet not as kin, but consequence
A final pact in self-defense
We’ll find the fifth, delay the flame
But nothing will restore our name

[Outro – Instrumental Coda]
A soft piano motif plays beneath static and wind.

“Then let the fire wait…”