YOU MADE IT SAFE, BUT NOT ALIVE

Описание: Track 1 — The Black Lantern Guild — “Those Who Never Burned”
You tell us how the sky once split,
how bells rang wrong, how cities shook.
You say you ended gods and crowns,
closed the wound the fire took.
We believe you.
But look at this.
The streets are straight.
The air is thin.
Every door closes softly.
Every voice fits in.
You made it safe.
You made it small.
We grew up under ceilings
we never saw installed.
Learned to lower our voices
before we knew why.
No one vanished.
No one burned.
No one screamed at dawn.
But no one shouted either.
You call this mercy.
We call it measured.
You say,
“You don’t know what fire costs.”
You’re right.
We don’t know the smoke.
We don’t know the names you lost.
But we know what it means
to live in a room
that never changes temperature.
We know what it means
to inherit caution
like it’s oxygen.
You ended the monsters.
Then you ended the scale.
Every story you tell
sounds like warning.
Every memory ends
in restraint.
We don’t want crowns.
We don’t want ruin.
We want space
that wasn’t carved for us
before we could stand.
You made it safe,
but not alive.
You built this so we wouldn’t burn.
But we were never asked
if we’d rather learn
how to hold it.
We stand in the bent street
because it feels like breathing.
We hum the melody
because it feels like height.
You look at us
like we’re courting disaster.
We look at you
like you’re afraid
of anything you can’t predict.
You survived something terrible.
We survived nothing.
Do you know how thin that feels?
No scars.
No heat.
Just a world
that never risks itself.
You made it safe,
but not alive.
And we are done
living inside
a room
that never
gets warmer.