a-hero-reforged

[00:01.21] I knew the weight of wire and flame,

[00:05.19] A steady hand, no need for fame

[00:10.24] I died in dust, no final stand

[00:15.55] Just wreckage sparked by my own hand

[00:20.33] The blast was mine, and mine to bear

[00:25.91] No hymns, no stars: just smoke and prayer

[00:31.22] But something reached beyond the zone,

[00:36.53] And stitched me back from ash and bone

[00:42.91] I wore the badge, I walked the beat,

[00:47.95] Kept ghosts from knocking on your street

[00:51.94] But fire crept in through every case,

[00:56.99] And burned the name behind my face

[01:02.83] I kept the law, but lost the thread

[01:07.34] Of a past I can't now retread

[01:15.31] He rose in flame, not born, but cast

[01:18.78] No warmth to give, no love to last

[01:24.61] He hunted threats in silence grim

[01:28.33] The man beneath? A silent hymn

[01:33.91] He lied to those who knew me best:

[01:37.89] "This man is dead." Time only for his quest

[01:41.08] The hound is gone, but I remain:

[01:47.99] A man's shade bound in feral frame.

[02:03.15] I am what's left when past is dust,

[02:09.25] A name survives, but only just

[02:13.24] It once wore stars and stripes with pride,

[02:18.28] Now flickers low, just set aside

[02:23.86] The fire did more than mark my skin

[02:27.31] It burned the man I might've been

[02:30.23] I guard the gate and walk the line

[02:33.16] Not man or myth, but both entwined

[02:40.05] I walk where shadows split and veer,

[02:43.23] Not bound by fame, glory, nor fear

[02:45.62] The hound is gone, the man has passed

[02:48.55] Yet something formed that still will last

[02:55.19] I move between what eyes can't see,

[02:58.91] A sentinel for powers that be

[03:01.56] No throne, no chain, just a man retold

[03:04.24] Boots on roads where truths unfold

[03:11.94] I keep the veil from slipping wide,

[03:14.86] The worlds apart, yet side by side

[03:17.25] And if you glimpse me through the haze

[03:19.91] Be still. I'm not for mortal praise