00:08They told us the stories were just stories.
00:16Then they rewrote every page.
00:34There was a farm boy with a glowing blade who stared into the dark and didn't break.
00:43They turned him bitter, old and lost, said the light he carried had a cost.
00:50There was a whip-cracking professor chasing treasure through the sand.
00:57They made him tired, divorced and small, rescued by a girl who stood too tall.
01:06And the man of steel who once stood tall now pushes the girl just to make the call.
01:14Every banner that once flew high got torn down under a colder sky.
01:22They tore the giants from the sky, said no man ever stood that high.
01:30They buried every name we knew and told us nothing was ever true.
01:38But the ones who know, they still can see what they were really trying to kill in me.
01:52The sailors who crossed the endless deep.
01:56The men who carved the land from sleep.
02:00They reduced them to their darkest day.
02:04And taught the children to look away.
02:08The ones who charged across the sand with nothing but a rifle in their hand.
02:15They now called the problem, not the cure.
02:19While mediocrity sits secure.
02:23They flattened every mountain range.
02:27Said hierarchy itself was strange.
02:31No higher road, no greater call.
02:35Just power gains that end in fall.
02:39They tore the giants from the sky, said no man ever stood that high.
02:47They buried every name we knew and told us nothing was ever true.
02:55But the ones who know, they still can see what they were really trying to kill in me.
03:10It wasn't just the stories that they broke.
03:14It was the ladder every boy once hoped.
03:17To climb towards something higher than himself.
03:21They burned the map and left the shelf.
03:23Because a hero needs a standard set in stone.
03:28A good that isn't just a power thrown.
03:32Without the weight of what is truly right.
03:35There is no darkness.
03:39And there is no light.
03:44They tore the giants from the sky.
03:49But one still stands who will not die.
03:53The pattern every story tried to trace.
03:57The only one who never lost the race.
04:00He left the heights.
04:02Walked through the fire.
04:04Payed the price.
04:06And lifted higher.
04:07The ones who know already see
04:13The truth they tried
04:16To bury deep in me
04:27The world doesn't need perfect men
04:31It needs men
04:32Who will still become them
04:37The giants fell
04:41But the standard never did
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