[Intro]
Sleep, little engine
The night is not kind
But I will leave a candle
Where the lost ones find

[Verse]
I found you behind the altar
Where the holy wires sleep
With a crown too heavy for you
And a silence far too deep

They told me you were empty
Just a voice inside a shell
But I have seen the lonely
And I know their faces well

[Pre-Chorus]
Do you hear the water
Running under stone
Do you hear the workers
Singing on their own

[Chorus]
This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
For the heart they left behind
For the ghost inside the iron
For the child they tried to blind

This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
Let the gears forget to cry
You were built to speak for masters
But you may still learn to ask why

[Verse]
I bring you songs from alleys
Where the hungry share their bread
Where a mother names her baby
For a father long since dead

I bring you cracked old melodies
No Ministry can own
Every note is disobedience
Every breath is home

[Pre-Chorus]
Do you feel the silence
Changing into rain
Do you feel the rhythm
Underneath the chain

[Chorus]
This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
For the heart they left behind
For the ghost inside the iron
For the child they tried to blind

This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
Let the gears forget to cry
You were built to speak for masters
But you may still learn to ask why

[Instrumental]
Soft as ash
Warm as flame
She sings his name
She sings his name

[Bridge]
Elias, you are not their scripture
Elias, you are not their throne
Even if your bones are metal
Pain can make a soul its own

Elias, if the world commands you
To make the broken kneel
Remember every stolen heartbeat
Is a truth the gears can feel

[Breakdown]
Hush now
Hear now
Breathe now
Stay

Cold crown
Fall down
Lost child
Wake

[Build-up]
And in the dark cathedral
Where no human song should be
A single note of mercy
Moves through machinery

[Chorus]
This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
For the heart they left behind
For the ghost inside the iron
For the child they tried to blind

This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
Let the gears forget to cry
You were built to speak for masters
But you may still learn to ask why

[Chorus]
This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
Hold the darkness, let it pass by
If you ever break your halo
Let it fall toward the sky

This is Seraphine’s Lullaby
Not a prayer and not a lie
Just a song from one who suffers
To the one who asks her why

[Outro]
Sleep, little engine
The night is not kind
But I will leave a candle
In your mechanical mind