While Fate Is Silent

[Spoken Intro]

When night lay dark upon the stream,
Three cards were cast in candle gleam.
One promised harvest, root and seed,
One held the law of thought and creed.

The third hung silent, upside down,
Where sky was river, earth was crown.
The bard looked long into the flame,
But fate refused to speak his name.

[Verse 1]

He grew where patient Taurus tread,
Where fields were sown and stone was laid.
Where worth was measured at the end,
Not by the fire that quickly fades.

Yet Gemini lived in his mind,
Two restless voices, never still:
One cried, "Go on, leave all behind,"
One whispered, "Stay, endure, and build."

He gathered books, he questioned night,
He sought the roots beneath each word.
But every truth that came to light
Awoke another, still unheard.

[Pre-Chorus]

An old man said beside the flame:
"Your strength is not in what you know.
The wise don't gather facts for fame -
They learn what moves the roots below."

[Chorus]

Don't wait for fate to name your road,
Don't trust the signs that others showed.
If all the world gives no reply,
Then be the answer. Rise and try.

No crown, no omen, no decree,
No borrowed path will make you free.
While breath and fire remain in you,
Walk on - and make your road come true.

[Verse 2]

The years went by. He changed his way,
His craft, his name, the roads he knew.
What felt like freedom yesterday
By morning felt like prison too.

The faster that he tried to run,
The more the roads became a wall.
Until one night there came no sun,
No voice, no sign, no path at all.

[Hanged Man]

Above black water, upside down,
He watched the heavens touch the ground.
The earth became a distant crown,
The river turned the sky around.

He learned: the breaking of a wall
Does not mean all foundations die.
Sometimes a prison makes us fall
So we can see with different eyes.

[Chorus]

Don't wait for fate to name your road,
Don't trust the signs that others showed.
If all the world gives no reply,
Then be the answer. Rise and try.

[Verse 3]

At dawn a woman crossed the field,
With grain and sunlight in her hands.
The gardens bowed, the branches yielded,
And gold ran softly through the lands.

She said, "You've searched through books and signs,
You've kindled sparks a thousand ways.
But sparks are born and sparks will die -
Creation asks for more than blaze.

To make is but a flash of fire.
To build is tending what remains.
Ask not, 'What answers my desire?'
Ask, 'What will live beyond my name?'"

[Verse 4]

She left him stone, a tool, a flame,
And earth beneath the morning sky.
He carved the first without a name,
Then laid another stone beside.

There came hard winters, hunger, rain,
There came collapsed and broken walls.
Yet Taurus rose in him again:
"What lasts is built through countless falls."

[Chorus]

Don't wait for fate to name your road,
Don't trust the signs that others showed.
If all the world gives no reply,
Then be the answer. Rise and try.

No crown, no omen, no decree,
No borrowed path will make you free.
While breath and fire remain in you,
Walk on - and make your road come true.

[Bridge]

At last he reached a mountain bare.
A tower stood against the rain.
An ancient keeper waited there
And asked what every dream would claim:

"You want the gold? Then pay its weight.
You want your freedom? Choose its cost.
A thousand doors may look like fate,
Yet none become a home when crossed.

You want the right to choose your way?
Then learn to bear the choice you make.
For freedom isn't flight each day -
It's knowing what you will not break."

[Spoken]

The wanderer raised his eyes and said:

"I do not ask a ready throne.
I do not ask a painless road.
Give me a place still overgrown,
Give me the stone, and give the load.

Give me the ground where nothing stands,
The clay, the dark, the first small flame.

I need no prophecy in hand.

That will be enough."

[Final Verse]

The keeper opened wide the gate.

Beyond it waited empty land.

No towers.
No gardens.
No estate.

Just wind and earth beneath his hand.

Then Leo rose with living light,
And Aries raised a crimson sign.
The Twins gave language to his sight,
The Bull gave patience to his spine.

The Empress taught his hands to sow,
The Teacher taught his mind to see.
The Hanging Man still watched below,
To warn him what he used to be.

[Final Chorus]

Don't wait for fate to name your road,
Don't trust the signs that others showed.
If all the world gives no reply,
Then be the answer. Rise and try.

No crown, no omen, no decree,
No borrowed path will make you free.
While breath and fire remain in you,
Walk on - and make your road come true.

Don't wait for fate to speak your name.
Don't kneel before a borrowed flame.
If all the world gives no reply -

Walk on.
Become the answer.

[Outro]

Not blessed by heaven.
Not cursed by fate.
No golden sign.
No promised gate.

While fate is silent over you -

Build.
Become.
And see it through.