Aurora Lyra · The Black Bond · Track 08 of 12

Both Can Be True

“both can be true / yes / yes / yes”

The book's moral spine rendered as five words traded in a black room — a duet that stops the war between two people without resolving the war they share.

Movement

Storm

Length

3:50

Scene

Ch. 24

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Full lyrics

“Both Can Be True”

Spoiler — Chapter 24. The Brennfall question. Read the book first if you want the reveal earned. Click to reveal lyrics.

Intro

instrumental, ~15s on fingerpicked acoustic guitar

Instrumental.

Verse 1

The barn at Brennfall is still standing

The roof beams are charred and the eastern wall is gone

You ordered the strike and the strike was correct

And the strike took my mother and the strike kept the city

Pre-Chorus

I had been told that one truth wins

I had been told that the larger truth pays for the smaller

I had been wrong, and I had been right

And I had been a thing built on the math that did not work

Chorus

first iteration: sparse, acoustic + voice + choir

Both can be true

Both can be true

And the wool stayed wool, and the smoke stayed in everything

Both can be true

Both can be true

The strike was right, and my mother is dead

Both can be true

Verse 2

You did not say it was only about the strike

I did not say it was only about the barn

We sat with the fire between us in the room

And neither of us was wrong to say nothing

Pre-Chorus

I had been told that one truth wins

I had been told that the larger truth pays for the smaller

I had been wrong, and I had been right

And I had been a thing built on the math that did not work

Chorus

second iteration: full strings join

Both can be true

Both can be true

The strike was right, and my mother is dead

Both can be true

Both can be true

You bear the cost, and I bear the grief

Both can be true

Bridge

brass enters

The doctrine permits

The doctrine does not absolve

The doctrine is a word, and the barn is a place

And both can be true

Final Chorus

third iteration: strummed acoustic + full strings + brass + choir

Both can be true

Both can be true

The strike was right, and my mother is dead

Both can be true

Both can be true

You bear the cost, and I bear the grief

Both can be true

And the wool stayed wool

Lyrics © Aurora Lyra. All rights reserved.

The scene

Ch. 24 · The five-word conversation about Brennfall. The book's moral architecture.

The line the track turns on

“both can be true / yes / yes / yes”

About the track

The book's moral spine rendered as five words traded in a black room — a duet that stops the war between two people without resolving the war they share.

The Black Bond is the first novel of The Skarn Reach, an Aurora Lyra romantasy. Every Aurora Lyra novel ships with a companion album — twelve original songs scored to the book’s emotional spine. This track is one of three in the Storm movement.

The crash, the dream-cross, the five-word conversation, the latched door. The four tracks that contain the book's pivot.

The Black Bond — Companion Album

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Twelve songs in three movements. Threshold. Storm. Cost. The album scored to the spine of The Black Bond.

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The Black Bond

She put him in a cage. Three years later, his dragon chose her.

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