Verse 1
Mr Tesla
Burning bright
Hold your torch
Against the night
Cold rooms
One bare chair
Ideas humming
Everywhere
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Verse 2
You walked alone
Street by street
Talking truth
They couldn’t keep
You saw power
In thin air
They saw risk
And walked elsewhere
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Chorus
Too soon
Too far
Too clear
By far
I showed the road
They took the car
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Verse 3
They shook your hand
They took your plans
Closed their books
Counted their gains
When the money
Stopped its flow
So did friends
You thought you knew
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Bridge (very plain, very human)
You weren’t easy
You weren’t kind
You pushed too hard
You crossed their lines
But every light
That fills this place
Once lived first
Inside your mind
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Final Verse (quiet, resolved)
The lights came on
Years too late
I’d already
Left the gate
No anger
No regret
I did the work
They didn’t get
Michael Forty