Two Stars, One Shadow

I kept a light inside the wound A green fire under broken moons I kept a blade where a heart should be Now two tomorrows are calling me I was the silence in the hall The shape that made the guilty crawl I wore the night, I served the pain A nameless ghost with a murdered name But in the dark, you gave me breath A fragile star I could not protect Now every future breaks the same And both of them are calling, "Father, say my name" I was the mercy you buried deep The prayer you swore you would never keep When Orokin gold became a cage I held our dawn against the rage Do not become what hunted you Do not make love a weapon too A child is not a debt to pay He is the light you carry through the grey Orion burns like a hunter's cry Sirius shines with a wounded sky One road asks me to disappear One road begs you to stay right here Two stars, one shadow Split across the Void Two names, one echo In a father's voice If the heavens want a sacrifice Let them take the war from me Two stars, one shadow I will not let the future bleed Jade light, guide me home Through the dark he walks alone But I am not alone They come with thunder from the ice With shattered ships and borrowed lives Each one reaches for my hand To drag me back through a dying land Then choose the love, not the blame Do not divide them by a name The shadow ends where mercy starts A father is a shelter, not a scar I cannot save them with a sword You can still become the door Not every ghost must disappear Not every child inherits fear Two stars, one shadow Split across the Void Two names, one echo In a father's voice If the heavens want a sacrifice Let them take the war from me Two stars, one shadow I will not let the future bleed What am I, if I am not the blade? The hand that lifts them from the grave What am I, if I cannot atone? The voice that tells them they are not alone What if one future turns to ash? Then hold the light until it passes No more blood for the stars above No more sons condemned by love Sirius, Orion - hear me now Through jade and shadow, I call you out Break the cycle, break the chain No child should be born to pay Break the cycle, break the chain No child should be born to pay Two stars, one shadow We are not destroyed Two names, one echo Stronger than the Void If the heavens want a sacrifice Let them take the war from me Two stars, one shadow I will not let the future bleed Two stars, one shadow Burning through the night Two names, one promise I will bring you back to light Sleep where the dark cannot follow Rise where the light learns my name Two stars, one shadow We choose tomorrow from the flame