[Intro]
[Three unaccompanied voices sing the former typewriter motif; cello and clean guitar answer without percussion.]

[Verse 1]
[Narrator]
The morning finds the chamber scarred,
The doors unsealed, the windows barred.
Red folders cover every chair,
A broken stamp lies waiting there.
The judge returns the scale in two;
A metalworker threads it through.
It does not hang as once before—
But both brass pans can move once more.

[Instrumental Refrain]
[Three voices hum the title over the repaired-scale bell.]

[Verse 2]
[Narrator]
The workers take their desks again,
Some find their names, some find a stain.
Some chairs remain forever bare;
No chorus brings the missing there.
The lawyers face the claims they made,
The records show the parts they played.
Yet down one hall, behind one door,
A fresh blank binder waits for more.

[Chorus]
[Ensemble]
No king above the law,
No hand beyond review.
No oath belongs to one man
When the oath belongs to you.

[Post-Chorus]
[Citizens]
Mend the scale and clear the hall;
Let every witness through.
No king above the law—
Let the republic answer true.

[Bridge]
[Citizens]
A republic is not saved one night,
Nor guarded only in the fight.
It lives in meetings people dread,
In budgets red and records spread.
It lives when judges name the line,
When clerks preserve the date and time.
It lives when citizens withdraw
Their worship from the man to law.

[Instrumental Break]
[Clean guitar restates melodies from Tracks 1, 6 and 13 as the repaired-scale bell sounds on alternating sides.]

[Final Chorus]
[Ensemble]
No king above the law,
No order past review.
No branch may claim the whole republic,
No crown can make that true.

[Final Post-Chorus]
[Citizens]
Hold the scale and guard the hall;
Let every voice come through.
No king above the law—
The law must answer you.

[Coda]
[Together]
No king above the law,
No matter what name he knew.
No plan is dead while fear survives;
No freedom stays brand-new.
Reed the page and watch the hand
That signs what power will do.
No king above the law—
And no republic without you.

[Outro]
[Narrator]
The lights go out in Washington.
The repaired scale continues moving.

One pan rises.
One pan falls.

Neither remains above the other.

No king.
No master.
No throne above the law.
