Monologue of a Soul
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Through Thousand Lives › Act I › Vultures of Sorrow and Phantoms of Life
The poor mother and child offer their last coins; the moneylender reaches out; the Soul witnesses from the right. The fragile cottage, the last coins, and the first vulture-shadows and phantoms gathering above. The man in the black shell — the moneylender hardened into part of the darkness, vultures circling. The gaze — the Soul meets his eyes, and the first spark cracks the steel he confined. The flicker breaks through — light cuts through the armor as the vultures and phantoms begin to fall. The ledger and the massed phantoms — a human being sealed inside a black shell.
I “Vultures of sorrow, they circle the cries,”

We weren’t born of fire —
we were born of light.

Act I · The Fall and the Witness

Vultures of Sorrow
and Phantoms of Life

A Soul Remembering Light.

This song reveals the forces that feed on human sorrow.

After the private freezing of Ice of Love, the Soul witnesses a wider form of darkness: not only one betrayal, but a system of fear, control, poverty, and spiritual decay. The vultures are the forces that circle pain. The phantoms are the hollow lives left behind when people trade grace for control and call illusion real.

The central figure is a moneylender who has lived in darkness so long that he has become part of it. He is not a simple villain — he is a human being sealed inside a black shell. When he meets the heroine’s gaze, something inside him cracks. A flicker of light breaks through the armor, and the vultures and phantoms begin to fall. This is not a battle won by rage. It is a soul remembering light.

What this song is really about

This song is built on something real. There are people who make their living buying up the homes of the bankrupt and putting families out onto the street — and feel perfectly fine doing it. How can a person do this, and still believe they are a good human being?

It is a song about a deep disappointment in people — about how easily we forget that truth, mercy, and grace exist at all. And yet it does not end in judgment. It ends in the moment even a soul sealed in darkness remembers the light it was made from.

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The Opera · Part One
Prologue
01The Duality of Being 02When Stars Stop Flying
Act I — The Fall and the Witness
03The Silence Ruled 04Broken Promise 05Kings and Queens of Loss 06Oblivion 07Ice of Love 08Vultures of Sorrow and Phantoms of Life
Act II — The Fire and the Trial
··The fire will awaken in August 2026
Lyrics
Verse I
Let me tell you what haunts the blackest of nights—
The ones with no mercy, no meaning, no right.
Vultures of sorrow, they circle the cries,
Phantoms of life with the coldest blue eyes.
They built their own prisons, forgot they could feel,
Traded grace for control, called illusion “real.”
No love, no light—just the echo of pain,
Feeding off shadows, again and again.
Pre-Chorus
But in silence, a spark starts to rise,
Cracks the steel in the soul they confined.
Chorus
And the vultures fall, the phantoms break—
Light cuts through what fear once made.
From the shadows, the soul takes flight,
Claiming back its birthright: light.
Let them crawl to the corners of night—
We weren’t born of fire, we were born of light.
Verse II
They smiled with no meaning, just echoes and dust,
Turned hearts into stone and love into rust.
Wandered the jungles of madness and lies,
Drunk on control, deaf to the cries.
But one storm-kissed morning—or a midnight unseen,
A flicker breaks in, fierce and clean.
Straight to the core, it tears down the lies—
That flicker’s a rebel, a blaze in disguise.
Pre-Chorus
And what was once chained starts to rise,
A soul reawakened with radiant light.
Chorus
Yeah, the vultures fall, the phantoms flee—
Truth dismantles their fantasy.
From the silence, we shine so bright,
Not with rage, but sacred light.
Let ’em fade in the echo of fright—
We are not fire. We are light.
Bridge
Raise your glow, little flicker of soul,
You were born to restore what they stole.
They can’t dim what was made to ignite—
You are healing. You are hope. You are light.
Final Chorus — Full Power
Now the vultures fall, and the phantoms flee,
Truth explodes through eternity.
From the ruins, we rise in grace—
Not to destroy, but to reclaim space.
Let the night remember this fight:
We are light. We are light. We. Are. Light.
Final Verse — Whispered, Stripped Back
And there—
In the stillness, in breath barely heard,
A second light flickers, no need for a word.
Two souls once broken, now softly ignite,
No longer alone—
They carry the night…
with light.
Within the Journey Act I closes not with victory, but with a soul remembering light.
The mirror of this awakening returns in Light Shone Through (Act II, coming).