Музыкальный трибьют хоррору Cronos: The New Dawn. Песня построена как таймлуп: три куплета — три прохождения с разными концовками. От милосердия к убийству, и наконец — к попытке разорвать петлю времени.
Синт-рок баллада о том, что даже вырвавшись из замкнутого круга, мы рискуем создать его заново.
(Verse 1)
A voice called out, the Collective called,
"Go save the past," my orders to fulfill.
Through future-rust and stories left untold,
I harvest Essences against their will.
My mission: bring them to the Terminal's core,
To save the minds all lost within the Change.
But in the 80s, I find something more...
The Warden’s secret, twisted and deranged.
The monster in the station... it was her.
The one he loved, now shackled to her pain.
I fight him, but his pleading words occur,
I spare him. He escapes the time-loop chain.
He jumps back to the past to save his bride,
But he’s the sickness, she is infected now.
He takes her Essence, nothing left inside.
He built this trap. This loop. He made the vow.
[Chorus]
Oh, the spiral turns, the signal finds
A memory that's buried in the past.
The Change awaits, it twists and binds,
A shadow that was ever-meant to last.
We run the maze, we live the pain,
This future's built upon a broken tool...
[Verse 2]
I wake again. The pod is cold and white.
The path ahead feels worn beneath my feet.
These flickering visions, shadows in the light,
A thousand memories I can't defeat.
I've seen this all. I've heard these ghostly pleas.
The brother's wail, the factory's decay.
I know the Warden's hollow memories,
I know the twisted lines he's going to say.
We fight again, but now I understand.
Your mercy is the poison, not the cure.
I raise my weapon, steady in my hand,
This micro-loop of yours will not endure.
This time I shoot him. Free. The cycle's done.
My personal torment, finally at an end.
But in the void, the Collective watch has just begun.
The macro-loop is still too strong to bend.
[Chorus]
Oh, the spiral turns, the signal finds
A memory that's buried in the past.
The Change awaits, it twists and binds,
A shadow that was ever-meant to last.
We run the maze, we live the pain,
I've just been playing someone else's fool...
[Verse 3]
A hundred times I’ve woken to this call.
I am not Traveler. I am not her soul.
I am the memory that survived the fall.
I am the warning that will make us whole.
I know your moves before your servos whine,
I know the tragic love you hold so deep.
I will not choose your mercy or decline,
A different promise is the one I'll keep.
I see the third path, burning like a star:
Begin anew. The option I have earned.
I step into the past, to where you are...
My other self, the one who hasn't learned.
I reach my hand out. You reach out for me.
Two Weronikas break the endless rhyme.
We walk away. We leave the loop. We're free.
A brand new start, outside the bounds of time.
[Chorus]
Oh, the spiral turns, the signal finds
A memory that's buried in the past.
The Change awaits, it twists and binds,
A shadow that was ever-meant to last.
We run the maze, we live the pain,
But now we're here to write a different rule...
[Outro]
We're free... but... I see their plan now.
The Collective, yes, they were wrong.
To save them... we have to fix it.
We have to guide them, all of them.
Unite them.
Such is our calling now.
