Was The Price Worth It? | Villain Song [Commission]

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This piece explores the idea of guidance taken to its most extreme conclusion, where instruction is not an act of kindness but a binding agreement. It presents mastery as something earned through erosion rather than encouragement, where comfort is deliberately withheld so that only focus remains. Growth here is slow, deliberate, and isolating, shaped by patience that borders on indifference.

The world of the narrative treats potential as raw material rather than something sacred. Limits are portrayed as flexible not because they are gently expanded, but because they are worn down through repetition, endurance, and surrender. What emerges on the other side is not simply skill, but a transformation that replaces uncertainty with inevitability.

At its core, the message questions whether absolute capability is worth the unseen costs required to obtain it. It frames ambition as a door willingly opened, where the consequences are never hidden but rarely understood until it is too late. The work asks whether becoming more than what you were requires giving up parts of yourself you once believed essential.

Lyrics:

[Intro]
I open the gate by inches never wider than the will you bring.
Step gently pupil the floor remembers every falter.

[Verse 1]
I have sat through epochs watching novices chase their scattered threads,
My hands guiding patterns they cannot yet sense humming under the weave.
Those who reach this hall arrive already carved by longing’s edge
But I refine the grain coax form from the stubborn unfinished belief.
Your name becomes a texture a resonance I train to ring true
The corridor bends around your steps asking what you are willing to lose.

[Pre Chorus]
And when you tremble thinking effort should be mercy
I remind you mastery is not kindness it is cost.

[Chorus 1]
Was the price worth it when the lesson rewrote you
When the hours stole your softness made your focus cut clean
Was the price worth it when the threshold consumed you
And you learned the shape of power is never what it seems
You asked for possibility I offered what was due
Was the price worth it now that the price is you

[Verse 2]
In this chamber time folds neatly disciplined as breath in winter air
I have trained constellations and architects of uncharted thought alike.
No single craft defines me I instruct the art beneath all arts
Where instinct sharpens into intuition and intuition ascends to strike.
You will feel your limits liquefy a tension stretching toward the unreal
But to sculpt the infinite student you must surrender what you hoped to keep.

[Pre Chorus]
And when you wonder why devotion tastes like silence
Understand perfection has always dined on doubt.

[Chorus 2]
Was the price worth it when the lesson rewrote you
When the hours stole your softness made your focus cut clean
Was the price worth it when the threshold consumed you
And you learned the shape of power is never what it seems
You asked for possibility I offered what was due
Was the price worth it now that the price is you

[Instrumental Break]
[Detuned piano arpeggios melt into sub bass pulses choral whispers trace half remembered drills.
Tempo fractures briefly into ritual electronica before returning to the patient swing.]

[Interlude]
Let go of the notion that I change you.
I only unveil what you hid from yourself.
Every prodigy walks out wearing the truth
They begged me never to reveal.

[Bridge]
I have taught immortals and I have taught the desperate
Each swore their offering was measured and fair.
Yet when the teaching finally blooms within them
They find the cost sewn through every fiber laid bare.
Do not curse the guide who shepherded your ascent
You opened the contract the moment you sought more.

[Chorus 3]
Was the price worth it when the lesson rewrote you
When the hours stole your softness made your focus cut clean
Was the price worth it when the threshold consumed you
And you learned the shape of power is never what it seems
You asked for possibility I offered what was due
Was the price worth it now that the price is you

[Outro]
[Glass harmonics bloom like a slow exhale]
Walk forward prodigy your mastery has consequences.
But so does refusing to rise.

[Final Flourish]
[One resonant woodwind note steady unwavering]
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