[Intro]
[Piano reverses the three-note motif, climbing slowly from the bass.]

[Verse 1 - Elias, distant male tenor]
I stood where the river bent,
My final ticket in my hand.
Do not call me innocent.
I packed one bag. I nearly went.
The night before my engine failed,
I turned back home, but never told the tale.

[Chorus - Elias, distant male tenor]
I’m a soul too heavy to leave,
Held by the truth I made her believe.
Not every burden is born from deceit;
Some grow from words that never meet.
I’m a soul too heavy to leave—
Tell her the whole of me, then let her grieve.

[Verse 2 - Elias, distant male tenor]
I loved her badly for one hard year,
With silent rooms and borrowed fear.
I blamed her voice, I blamed the rent,
I blamed her for the life I spent.
But on Route Ten, I turned for home;
She deserves the truth I left alone.

[Pre-Chorus - Anubis, deep male baritone]
The scale sank low beneath his name,
Not only guilt, not only shame.
Love left unspoken gathers weight;
An unopened mouth can bar a gate.

[Chorus - Elias, distant male tenor]
I’m a soul too heavy to leave,
Held by the truth I made her believe.
Not every burden is born from deceit;
Some grow from words that never meet.
I’m a soul too heavy to leave—
Tell her the whole of me, then let her grieve.

[Instrumental Break]
[Cello and harmonium climb together while brush drums imitate a slow turning wheel.]

[Verse 3 - Anubis, deep male baritone]
I found Mara beside the chapel door,
The unpaid invoice on the floor.
I gave her the ticket, spoke his line,
Then left the judgment hers, not mine.
She did not faint. She did not pray.
She tore his coat seam straight away.
From the lining fell a house-front key—
The one he packed, then brought back secretly.

[Bridge - Mara, warm female contralto]
I knew he wished to run.
Do not make death erase the blame,
Or turn forgiveness into shame.
Tell him I’m angry. Tell him I ache.
Tell him the cup stays by the sink—
Not as a shrine. I need to think.

[Breakdown - Anubis, deep male baritone]
I carried her words down to the shore.
The scale rose once.
Then rose once more.
Elias wept without an eye—
Truth does not heal, but truth can untie.

[Final Chorus - Elias, distant male tenor]
I was a soul too heavy to leave,
Held by the half I made her believe.
Now love and anger finally meet;
The river loosens around my feet.
I was a soul too heavy to leave—
She heard the whole, and now she can grieve.

[Outro - Anubis, deep male baritone]
He steps into the current without disguise.
The three-note motif
Begins to rise.