About this song
Sorin Markov has lived for a thousand years, and he built an angel to guard the humans he feeds on — not out of love, but for balance. This is the ballad of Innistrad's oldest vampire planeswalker: the cold steward who bound the Eldrazi, made a god for the cattle, and would make every ruthless choice again.
Lyrics
[Intro] [Verse 1] I have outlived the language that they used to speak my name, watched the candles drown in cathedrals I helped raise. My grandsire taught me hunger, and the bloodline taught me time — a thousand years of evening, and the moon still answers mine. You call it cruelty, mortal? I have buried gentler kings. I learned what lasts, and love was never one of those things. [Pre-Chorus] So don't come to me for kindness. Come and learn the law: the dark must have its measure, and the dawn must have its draw. [Chorus] I built a god to guard the herd I feed upon, an angel for the cattle, a silver guardian dawn. Not for love, not for mercy — for the balance of it all, so the night would never starve, and the light would never fall. Remember this when you curse me: I am older than mercy, and balance is the only god I serve. [Verse 2] On Zendikar we bound them — three of us against the deep, the Eye, the hedron prison, the titans laid to sleep. An old ally came to warn me when the seals began to fray; I weighed her against the order, and I turned her grief away. I drink, and you grow weaker; I decide what you have left. I have set a kingdom's lifespan with the calm of a held breath. [Pre-Chorus] You think me a monster. I think myself a wall — the last thing left still standing when the hungers come to call. [Chorus] I built a god to guard the herd I feed upon, an angel for the cattle, a silver guardian dawn. Not for love, not for mercy — for the balance of it all, so the night would never starve, and the light would never fall. Remember this when you curse me: I am older than mercy, and balance is the only god I serve. [Bridge] She came back as the fire. She came back as the sky. Emrakul over Innistrad, and my angel cracked the lie. I do not ask forgiveness — that's a coin I never carried. But I have walked the ash of every promise I have buried. [Bridge build] And still I'd weigh it cold again, I'd choose the scale once more — for someone has to count the cost the merciful ignore. [Final Chorus] I built a god to guard the herd I feed upon, and watched her turn to judgment when my patience was gone. Not for love, not for mercy — for the balance of it all, I will stand against the morning, and I'll stand against the fall. Remember this when you curse me: I am older than mercy, and balance is the only god I serve. [Outro] A thousand years of evening. The moon still answers mine.
