Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Lyrics and Vocals by: Zhuravliov
Mixing and Mastering by: Max Kranich
Music by: SUNO.ai
"In non-comic fiction, the hero shows us what matters, what has value, what has meaning among the random and meaningless events of life. In all stories, the hero is our teacher-by-example, and if we are to be that hero's disciple for the duration of the tale, we must have awe: We must know that the hero has some insight, some knowledge that we ourselves do not understand, some value or power that we do not yet have."
Orson Scott Card - Characters and viewpoint
“Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.”
Alan Moore — The Killing Joke
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
Václav Havel
"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"
Vaas Montenegro - Far Cry 3
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I lit the flame, again, again,
Ash to ash, and then to men.
Hope was bright — until it bled,
Now it’s rust inside my head.
I wore the crown, I bore the name,
Tried to break the cursed game.
But time forgets, and fate is blind,
And I've killed too many of my kind.
[Pre-Chorus]
Twelve hearts stolen every run,
Twelve lights swallowed by the sun,
I burn their names into my skin,
And kill myself to start again.
[Chorus]
This is not a world — it’s a cage made of fire,
A loop with no end, a funeral pyre.
Thirty-three million lives, all in vain,
But I still crawl through the cycle, through the pain.
Flame to flame, I carry the scream —
A godless machine chasing a dream.
If madness is hope that refuses to die,
Then I am the lie. I am the lie.
[Verse 2]
They called me savior, once, long ago,
Before the blood began to flow.
Before I learned the cruelest truth:
That time will eat the heart of youth.
I killed my future, shaped my past,
Became the shadow that will last.
My hands are gods, my soul is ash —
I trade their lives to make one flash.
[Pre-Chorus]
Upload the pain, reset the sky,
Watch another me just die.
No heaven waits, no hell to pay,
Just one more loop to throw away.
[Chorus]
This is not a fate — it’s a test in disguise,
To forge a destroyer in hero’s guise.
Four hundred million flames in my chest,
But none of them ever let me rest.
Flame to flame, I carry the scream —
A glitch in the code, a broken dream.
If madness is love that outlives the light,
Then I am the night. I am the night.
[Bridge – Whispered]
They built this world to break me slow,
To count how far a soul can go.
But I remember every face,
Each shattered hope I can’t replace.
I burned too long, I bled too deep,
I've killed myself just to keep
A chance — just one — to change the end...
Let this be the cycle that I bend.
[Final Chorus – Climactic]
No gods, no fate, no coded plan —
I'll be the glitch, I’ll break the span.
Let the fire judge me, let it see:
The last cycle ends with me.
Flame to flame, I carry the scream,
A ghost of hope, a dying dream.
If madness is truth that no one believes,
Then I am the thief. I am the thief.
[Outro – Spoken/Soft]
Cycle Thirty-Three Million...
Five Hundred Fifty Thousand...
Three Hundred...
Thirty-Six...
One more to go.
One more... to change it all.
Lyrics and Vocals by: Zhuravliov
Mixing and Mastering by: Max Kranich
Music by: SUNO.ai
"In non-comic fiction, the hero shows us what matters, what has value, what has meaning among the random and meaningless events of life. In all stories, the hero is our teacher-by-example, and if we are to be that hero's disciple for the duration of the tale, we must have awe: We must know that the hero has some insight, some knowledge that we ourselves do not understand, some value or power that we do not yet have."
Orson Scott Card - Characters and viewpoint
“Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened.”
Alan Moore — The Killing Joke
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
Václav Havel
"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"
Vaas Montenegro - Far Cry 3
Lyrics:
[Verse 1]
I lit the flame, again, again,
Ash to ash, and then to men.
Hope was bright — until it bled,
Now it’s rust inside my head.
I wore the crown, I bore the name,
Tried to break the cursed game.
But time forgets, and fate is blind,
And I've killed too many of my kind.
[Pre-Chorus]
Twelve hearts stolen every run,
Twelve lights swallowed by the sun,
I burn their names into my skin,
And kill myself to start again.
[Chorus]
This is not a world — it’s a cage made of fire,
A loop with no end, a funeral pyre.
Thirty-three million lives, all in vain,
But I still crawl through the cycle, through the pain.
Flame to flame, I carry the scream —
A godless machine chasing a dream.
If madness is hope that refuses to die,
Then I am the lie. I am the lie.
[Verse 2]
They called me savior, once, long ago,
Before the blood began to flow.
Before I learned the cruelest truth:
That time will eat the heart of youth.
I killed my future, shaped my past,
Became the shadow that will last.
My hands are gods, my soul is ash —
I trade their lives to make one flash.
[Pre-Chorus]
Upload the pain, reset the sky,
Watch another me just die.
No heaven waits, no hell to pay,
Just one more loop to throw away.
[Chorus]
This is not a fate — it’s a test in disguise,
To forge a destroyer in hero’s guise.
Four hundred million flames in my chest,
But none of them ever let me rest.
Flame to flame, I carry the scream —
A glitch in the code, a broken dream.
If madness is love that outlives the light,
Then I am the night. I am the night.
[Bridge – Whispered]
They built this world to break me slow,
To count how far a soul can go.
But I remember every face,
Each shattered hope I can’t replace.
I burned too long, I bled too deep,
I've killed myself just to keep
A chance — just one — to change the end...
Let this be the cycle that I bend.
[Final Chorus – Climactic]
No gods, no fate, no coded plan —
I'll be the glitch, I’ll break the span.
Let the fire judge me, let it see:
The last cycle ends with me.
Flame to flame, I carry the scream,
A ghost of hope, a dying dream.
If madness is truth that no one believes,
Then I am the thief. I am the thief.
[Outro – Spoken/Soft]
Cycle Thirty-Three Million...
Five Hundred Fifty Thousand...
Three Hundred...
Thirty-Six...
One more to go.
One more... to change it all.
