00:02In the sterile white, where the monitors beep, something ancient stirs beneath the sheets.
00:33She woke with fire crawling under her skin, a stinger of shadow ripped free from within.
00:41Medics in masks, a man of the cloth, tried to hold back the storm, but the storm broke off.
00:48She tore out the lines, climbed into the night, drove through the neon looking for light.
00:56Tried to wash every mark in the spinning foam, but the tail came back and the glass turned to stone.
01:03She said, I'll clean myself, I'll burn it all down, but the city just watched as she tore through the
01:10town.
01:11Watch it burn, watch it burn, every headline, every line they learned.
01:25Read between the letters, they never printed true.
01:32Something older than the stages were in you.
01:40Another queen once danced with her own black disease, chained to a mirror that refused to release.
01:48She hugged the darkness, kissed it on the mouth, and when the lights came up, the shadow was still out.
01:56The old dark horse rode, pyramids of gold, sang of beasts in cages while the story was sold.
02:03They all wear the same invisible crown, till the moment the water finally pulls them down.
02:11One tried the car wash, one tried the fight, one tried the throne room, none of them got it right.
02:18Watch it burn, watch it burn, watch it burn, every contract written in the dark they earn.
02:32They merge with the machine, they sell what can't be bought, but the only thing that frees is the fire
02:39they fight.
02:42They put the magazine on the corner stand, a face half human, half metal, hand in hand.
02:56Don't believe everything you hear, the screen replied, while the scorpion laughed and the city died.
03:05They thought the stage was the highest they could climb, but the highest place is the lowest every time.
03:13Until the holy water hits the burning skin, and the thing that owned them finally gives end.
03:27Watch it burn, watch it burn.
03:33Not the city, not the fame, not the name they earn.
03:37The only fire that saves is the one that turns the darkness out.
03:45And the light returns, she rose from the water clean, and for the first time, the tale was gone.
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