Jinu vs Gary De'Snake (Kpop Demon in Zootopia 2)

Tonight: a reckoning of ghosts and grudge

the Fallen Singer versus the Viper of the Lost District

I hid the scorch marks under sequins and silk

Rumi's lullaby a small light I kept beneath my ribs

Applause read like ledger lines I never learned to file

I stitched my smile over ash so no one saw what it did

They turned my breath into a contract I could not close

Wrote my name on pages that only collect and never show

If sorrow buys silence, then I've been bankrupt from the start

If penance is a language, I learned to speak it from the heart

I sing to carry what I cannot carry alone

I sing to name the faces the city left unknown

Rumi's whisper keeps me honest when the lights betray

I sing for the small rooms where the lost ones used to stay

They paved our maps and called it progress' hand

Agnes kept the lists; they sold the rest to land

They smoothed the alleys where our fathers used to stand

Left signatures in dust where our names should have been planned

You wear applause like armor; the armor hides a seam

You sing to keep a system whole while we vanish from the scene

If silence buries truth, then I will dig until it wakes

If history is stolen, I will take it back by any stakes

I strike to call the missing, pull the ledger into light

I move like winter's verdict: patient, certain, tight

Call me a viper if the world prefers the bite

I'll hiss until the erased return into the night

Rumi's name is candlelight I carry through the smoke

Her face the reason I still answer when the chorus calls

I broke my gilded mirror so the truth could find a crack

Kept my mother's letters folded in the pockets of my fall

Rumi hums beneath my ribs; her voice is why I stand and try

I count the nights I failed them, keep their faces in my eye

If my song can stitch a wound, I'll sing until the seam holds dry

Agnes' handwriting is a map I carry like a blade

I keep the erased names close; each one is a debt unpaid

If truth is tinder, I will strike the match until the lies are flayed