[Verse 1 | Rising Tension | Chest-Led Belt | Chugging Guitar + Toms]
I woke where a dead star split the morning in two,
Iron rain on the roof turned the heavens to blue.
A stranger pressed my birthmark into cold marble stone,
Then carved out every letter till the mark was unknown.
The road had iron mileposts pointing straight to the grave,
Yet each time I broke the pattern, the same omen came.
[Pre-Chorus | Building Pressure | Tight Throat Cry | Rising Chords + Cymbal Swells]
There's a door in the wall where no doorway should be,
A voice under floorboards keeps calling to me.
Three knocks from below make the whole house shake,
And a hand without fingers keeps turning the latch.
[Chorus | Explosive Lift | Full Belt | Power Chords + Crash Accents]
I am the man behind the sun,
The unseen hand when day is done,
I forge the blaze, I name the scar,
I walk where no man's footsteps are.
When the black tide climbs the stone,
And the old crowns crack from their seat,
I'll meet the gate, I'll face the fall,
No hand can seal what I recall.
[Verse 2 | Driving Force | Grit-Toned Belt | Galloping Riff + Floor Toms]
A golden road cut through a field of midnight rain,
Led past a ruined kingdom where the dead kings spoke my name.
A thousand faces sank beneath one frozen sky,
Each wore my eyes for one brief breath, then vanished from sight.
The hero bore a broken crown, the jailer held the key,
And deep within the turning wheel, another self looked back at me.
[Pre-Chorus | Building Pressure | Tight Throat Cry | Rising Chords + Cymbal Swells]
There's a hymn beneath the silence, a beat behind the wall,
Something scratches three times whenever moonbeams fall.
It says I never crossed this threshold, never drew this breath,
Yet every scar upon my hands remembers what comes next.
[Chorus | Explosive Lift | Full Belt | Power Chords + Crash Accents]
I am the man behind the sun,
The unseen hand when day is done,
I forge the blaze, I name the scar,
I walk where no man's footsteps are.
When the black tide climbs the stone,
And the old crowns crack from their seat,
I'll meet the gate, I'll face the fall,
No hand can seal what I recall.
[Bridge | Ritual Climax | Open-Throat Shout | Bell Tolls + Marching Drums]
Strike the bell, break the seal,
Turn the wheel, make it kneel.
Call my name, cross the line,
Take what's mine, make it mine.
The lake keeps every face it sees,
The tower counts beneath the seas.
The tale has teeth, the ink can bleed,
And every hand that writes must heed.
[Guitar Solo | Blazing Climax | Wordless Belt | Twin-Leads + Double-Kick Drive]
[Chorus | Maximum Force | Full Belt + Gang Response | Power Chords + Crash Accents]
I am the man behind the sun,
The last command when all is done,
I wrote the wound, I shaped the scar,
Now every gate knows where you are.
Let the black tide climb the walls,
Let the buried thunder call,
If there is no road, I'll make one—
I'll tear the veil
And become the sun.