You Can’t Kill the Spark
The story in the song
Eight Transformers. One dying world. "You Can’t Kill the Spark" gives Autobots and Decepticons their own voices, then brings them together in a defiant chorus for Cybertron. A cross-continuity tribute, not a canonical alliance.
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Lyrics
Two armies. One dying world.
Listen to what refuses to die.
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
Optimus Prime - get the children clear.
Let the guns turn on me. I am here.
I will not trade their world for mine,
Or call a cage a grand design.
The strong don't make the helpless kneel.
I put that promise into steel.
Megatron - my cannon casts the vote.
No king will put a chain around my throat.
You call it conquest. I call it coming home.
I will not beg for what I mean to own.
Let Prime protect the weak behind his wall -
Our world will rise,
though other worlds must fall!
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
Rip the armor apart!
Cybertron, through the fire and the fall,
One home still calls to us all.
We wear different colors; we carry the scars,
The world that we lost
isn't lost in our hearts.
Change the shape, but not who we are -
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
Bumblebee - small frame, stubborn streak.
Don't confuse the smallest with the weak.
One frightened hand
is knocking on my door;
That's all the reason I've been fighting for.
Climb in. Hold tight. We're not done yet.
I'm the little one you won't forget.
Arcee - don't tell me
what the dead would say.
I hear their names each time I walk away.
I've made a blade of every sleepless night,
But grief won't get to choose
the ones I fight.
Stand at my shoulder, not behind my gun.
I've lost enough. I won't lose everyone.
Soundwave. Every channel bends to me.
You cannot hide inside a frequency.
Laserbeak above; claws on the ground.
Your plans are mine
before you make a sound.
Others chase the throne; I hold the key.
Loyalty is not a chain to me.
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
Rip the armor apart!
Cybertron, through the fire and the fall,
One home still calls to us all.
We wear different colors; we carry the scars,
The world that we lost
isn't lost in our hearts.
Change the shape, but not who we are -
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
Starscream - keep your throne.
I'll take the sky.
Kings should know
that crowns don't teach them how to fly.
I kneel so you forget to watch my hands;
One little push can change
who gives commands.
Keep laughing while I circle overhead -
Your crown will fit me better
when you're dead!
Jazz - give me the backbeat, give me room.
I won't let Earth become another tomb.
I found a song worth saving in its streets,
A thousand fragile hearts that keep the beat.
You fight for flags?
I fight for nights like this -
A crowd, a groove,
a world the missiles miss.
Me Grimlock! No chain! No cage!
You hurt friends - you wake my rage!
You build big wall. Me break it down.
You wave big sword. Me melt your crown.
No master here. No throne to please.
Me choose to fight. Not on my knees!
I will not let you make them kneel!
I will not let you make us weak!
Two flags above a broken world -
One name beneath the steel!
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
Rip the armor apart!
Cybertron, through the fire and the fall,
One home still calls to us all.
We wear different colors; we carry the scars,
The world that we lost
isn't lost in our hearts.
Change the shape, but not who we are -
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
TRANSFORMERS!
YOU CAN'T KILL THE SPARK!
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