00:11They told you the crown was earned in the dirt, but the dirt was never empty.
00:38The End
01:08In the house of the young one, the shrine never set
01:12Pictures of the golden arm glowing on the shelf
01:16Father said, watch him bleed for the glory, my son
01:20That's what real men do when the lights come on
01:24Fourteen years of prayers to the man on the field
01:28The prospect grew tall on the myths they revealed
01:31They said hard work and talent would open the gate
01:35But the gate was already chosen
01:40Long before fate
01:42They call him the greatest
01:46But greatness is so
01:50Not one in the sunlight
01:54But what in the cold
01:58Blood of the ones who came before
02:02Poured in the veins of the legend endures
02:06Sign on the line on the checkered floors
02:09And the horn one smiles as the crowd wants more
02:14Seven days in the compound where the air tasted
02:18To thick transfusions at midnight
02:20The gift they called it oxygen
02:23Of the previous king running red through his arm
02:28Alchemy shapes nested inside the storm
02:31Circle in square and triangle drawn
02:35The great work completed when the old one is gone
02:45The father of the rules walked halls of the tomb
02:49Long before the league ever claimed its first room
02:53Pig masks on the owners thrones on the grass
02:57Cheerleaders chanting while the contract is passed
03:01Same system that whispers in the island night
03:05Same ink that they use when the cameras go wide
03:09Entertainment, politics, the same bloodline call
03:12One arena, many stages, they owned them all
03:16The prospect stood on the pentagram field
03:20Pen in the hand of the one who had kneeled
03:24He saw the lineage stretching back through the years
03:28Every chosen one fed by the same ancient tears
03:32He could take the gift
03:35Become the new beast
03:39Don't break the chain
03:42And refuse the fees
03:46They call him the greatest
03:50But greatness is sold
03:54Not one in the sunlight
03:58But bought in the cold
04:02Blood of the ones who came before
04:05Poured in the veins
04:07So the legend endures
04:09A sign on the line
04:11On the checkered floors
04:13And the horn once smiles
04:15As the crowd once more
04:17The movie they made
04:20Was a confession in red
04:24They showed us the prize
04:28Then they tried to bury the dead
04:49Now you know why
04:51So never age the same
04:55While the torch always passes
04:58With a different flame
05:02The ones who know
05:06Already knew the name
05:10The truth was never hidden
05:14It was just wearing a helmet
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