The War You Couldn't See

You prayed for peace while I was holding back a god They thought the silence meant the danger passed I learned his voice by living in the glass Three hundred years with thunder in my head Keeping one empire of hunger unfed So when I came back harder It wasn't for a throne The war you couldn't see Was tearing through the dark in front of me Call me broken, call me changed But not the one who looked away The war you couldn't see I wore it like a scar so you could breathe If peace stays blind Then peace will burn before it wakes Leviathan lights, my stolen name returned A mask, a bond, a past that still burned Foundry fire and every warning torn They wanted calm I came back carrying storm If I sound like ruin It's because I heard it speak The war you couldn't see Was already at the throat of everything Call me fallen, call me lost I paid the shape of that cost The war you couldn't see I dragged it into light so you'd believe If peace stays blind Then peace will burn before it wakes Split me to light, split me to wrath Both of them know what follows that If I become the wound you fear At least the dark one stops here The war you couldn't see Had already put its hands around your dreams Call me monster if you must I chose the fire instead of trust The war you couldn't see I brought it home so you would finally believe If peace stays blind Then peace will burn before it wakes