Song That Erased The Dwemer

Deep under stone where the old wheels turn, Brass hearts ticking while the cold lamps burn Someone left a question in the gears Someone left a question in the gears “What sound erased a thousand years?” Ash on the air over Red Mountain’s crown War drums still echo but the dwarves are gone now Kagrenac, chief tonal architect, apart Standing alone at Lorkhan’s stolen heart Wrote in numbers, metal, steam and rhyme Tuned every soul to a lattice of time One last equation carved in living ore Then silence rang where cities roared before It’s just a note, a perfect tone A line of code in spoken stone Strike it wrong, you’ll never know If you were here a breath ago Sing me the song that erased the Dwemer Chord that turned their name to “never” The beat that folded them out of the page The pulse that slipped them out of the age Hold that note at the edge of zero World goes blank and forgets its heroes But stop your hand before it falls together On the song that erased the Dwemer They say their minds touched the godhead’s dream Saw all of Mundus as a scripted scheme CHIM in a heartbeat they couldn’t bear To be both real and fiction standing there Some whisper brass towers walked like kings Numidium built on unbound strings Their souls the skin of a walking throne A marching question of brass and stone Some say Oblivion swallowed the clan Save one craftsman, Yagrum Bagarn Lost between realms when the switch was thrown Woke to find he was last, alone So was it math, or faith, or fear That tuned their song and pulled them clear? We hear the echo but never the source Only the tremor that rewrote the course Sing me the song that erased the Dwemer, that turned their myths to embers The beat that bled their lines from the scroll The drop that zero-summed a people whole Hold that note at the edge of zero World goes strange and forgets its heroes But stop your hand before it falls together On the song that erased the Dwemer Hermaeus whispers in ink and slime “All answers cost you more than time” Azura’s star just coldly gleams Guarding the seam of forgotten dreams Scholars in Markarth write and burn Argue which theory takes its turn Scrolls in their towers and tomes too Come for the question but leave it undone Deep in the ruins, the pistons sigh Calipers counting the ways to die You find a resonator humming low Playing a pattern you’ll never know Dwemer, Dwemer, where did you go? We were the question, we were the note Dwemer, Dwemer, what did you hear? We tuned the world and we disappeared Dwemer, Dwemer, under the ash We are the glitch in your Elder Scroll’s crash Don’t sing it through, don’t finish the line Some mysteries are the spine of time Sing me the song that erased the Dwemer Let choirs rise and tremors tremor But mute the strike that would make it real Leave just the shiver you half can feel We want the echo, not the answer The unresolved chord, the halted dancer Play it forever, but end it never Just before the note that erases Dwemer So when you stand where their forges slept And hear that hum in the mountain’s chest Hum back a question into the air “Did you escape, or were you never there?”