**Verse 1**
There's a pillar rising in the back of my head
Names of the living, victories of the dead
Tomorrow's granite pressing on my chest
Every decision already confessed

Hitch, you were north when the sky went black
Now we're divided by a widening crack
Your shadow falls across her flame
And time pulls tight like a loaded frame

**Pre-Chorus**
You say you don't know who she is
Say something's shattered in all of this
But what if Tau Turbulence is the seam
Between the tyrant and the dream?

**Chorus**
Don't make me choose between blood and the spark
Don't make me turn my friend to dark
If I squeeze this trigger, it won't be rage
It's defiance scratched on a prisoned page
I'm not fighting for what I can prove
I'm fighting for the right to move
God help me stall the future's thrill
Long enough to bend its will

**Verse 2**
You think she's fallen, think she's sold
But maybe she's braver than we're told
Walking straight into Tau's wild sea
Where cause and consequence disagree

I see the fracture behind your stare
A world reduced to us-or-they despair
But every monument, cold and proud
Was raised by fear made hard and loud

**Pre-Chorus**
You want her clean, defined, declared
No hidden hand, no edges spared
But certainty's the cruelest lie
It builds the throne before the cry

**Chorus**
Don't make me choose between hope and you
Don't make me fire on something true
It isn't a secret if you tell someone
So I'm begging you-just trust this one
I don't know if she'll change the tide
I only know what happens if we hide
From fragile doubt, our last defense
Against their stone-born permanence

**Bridge**
We were boys before the fracture line
Before the future crossed the spine
Before belief became a gun
And prophecy had just begun

If I stand down, you'll take her aim
If you stop her, we seal the name
Of a king unborn yet somehow crowned
By every soul that kneels to sound

**Breakdown**
I don't know if she's the cure
I don't know what will endure
I don't know if I've gone blind
Or if this shot redraws the line

**Final Chorus**
Forgive me if I cross this seam
Forgive this borrowed, breaking dream
I choose the storm over despair
Over chiselled fate and frozen prayer
If I pull this trigger, let it be
For one more breath of maybe
One more chance the script is wrong
One more unwritten song

**Outro**
Hitch... don't let me see
Your name in stone inside of me.