About this song
Trapped in a bubble where centuries pass in mere days, a Phyrexian sleeper agent carves away the parts of himself he no longer needs. He teaches his severed pieces how to crawl, how to kneel, and how to war. This is the price of perfection.
Lyrics
[Intro] [Verse 1] They grew me in a garden where the flesh is taught to lie, they gave me human features and a name to wear outside. I washed up on your shoreline and your brightest kept me well — the perfect, patient stranger, and the seed of something else. [Pre-Chorus] The golem tore my mask away and broke me where I stood, and time came down like shattered glass on scholar, stone and wood. [Chorus] Everything costs — I learned it in the dark: the price of every miracle is carved into my heart. Two drops for every shadow, and I never count the toll — everything costs, everything costs, and I would pay it all. [Verse 2] You lived a single evening. I lived a hundred years, alone inside a pocket where tomorrow disappears. No iron and no timber, no legion at my call — so I carved away the parts of me I didn't need at all, and taught my severed pieces how to crawl, and kneel, and war. [Pre-Chorus 2] Every dark word stitches sinew, every spell another bone — I went in wearing borrowed skin; I rise now in my own. [Chorus] Everything costs — I learned it in the dark: the price of every miracle is carved into my heart. Two drops for every shadow, and I never count the toll — everything costs, everything costs, and I would pay it all. [Bridge] He never called me son. He never needed to — I crowned myself in oil where no father's word came through. You broke the world to stop me, scattered time like shattered glass... and all you did was give me time. And time is all I ask. [Final Chorus] Everything costs — I learned it in the dark: the price of every miracle is carved into my heart. Two drops for every shadow, and I never count the toll — everything costs, everything costs, and I would pay it all. Everything costs — you learned it on that shore: you buried all your brightest when the hours went to war. So when the shadows come collecting, know I taught them what to do — everything costs, everything costs... I'll pay a little life for you. [Outro] Everything costs. What did it cost you?
