[Intro - Minutes of silence. Distant wind. Ice cracking. A single, deep bell toll.]
[Ancient, whispered]
In the Iceshard Cliffs... where nothing should survive...
The mountain breathes... and the mountain is... alive.
[Verse 1 - Slow as glaciers, heavy as frozen oceans]
I am the cold that never ends
The silence that your corpse sends
When you wander where you shouldn't be
In lands that don't want you to see
My ridge organs scrape the sky
Frosted crystals, frozen cry
They think I'm just a leviathan
Until my breath becomes their pan
[Pre-Chorus - Building pressure, like ice forming]
Cold... cold... cold... COLD...
Feel my story start unfold
Cold... cold... cold... COLD...
Centuries of hunters... MOLD
[Chorus - Crushing weight, guttural vocals]
JIN DAHAAD! COLD BEYOND COLD!
JIN DAHAAD! MOUNTAINS UNFOLD!
JIN DAHAAD! RIDGE ORGANS FREEZE THE AIR!
JIN DAHAAD! EVERY BREATH IS YOUR DESPAIR!
[Verse 2 - Still glacial, but with creeping dread]
They followed me to the frozen peak
Thought they were strong, thought they were sleek
I let them climb, I let them try
I watched their hope freeze in their eye
Then I moved—the mountain shook
Every hunter's final look
Was at a wall of ice and snow
They'll never know... they'll never know
[Bridge - Funeral pace, clean guitar over crushing riffs]
[Spoken, barely above whisper]
The Ancient Civilization built walls to keep me out...
They're gone now.
[Long pause]
I'm not.
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Cold... cold... cold... COLD...
See my story still unfold
Cold... cold... cold... COLD...
Every hunter... growing old...
[Chorus - Even heavier]
JIN DAHAAD! COLD BEYOND COLD!
JIN DAHAAD! MOUNTAINS UNFOLD!
JIN DAHAAD! RIDGE ORGANS FREEZE THE AIR!
JIN DAHAAD! EVERY BREATH IS YOUR DESPAIR!
[Guitar Solo - Slow, mournful, icy harmonics]
[Breakdown - Absolute zero]
[Guttural, every word a struggle]
ICE... (BREATH)
WIND... (DEATH)
STONE... (CHEST)
COLD... (CHEST)
NOTHING... (MOVES)
NOTHING... (GROWS)
NOTHING... (LIVES)
WHERE... MY... COLD... GOES...
[Final Chorus - Triumphant doom]
JIN DAHAAD! (JIN DAHAAD!)
COLD BEYOND COLD! (COLD BEYOND COLD!)
JIN DAHAAD! (JIN DAHAAD!)
MOUNTAINS UNFOLD! (MOUNTAINS UNFOLD!)
JIN DAHAAD! (JIN DAHAAD!)
RIDGE ORGANS FREEZE THE SKY!
JIN DAHAAD! (JIN DAHAAD!)
WATCH YOUR HUNTER SPIRIT—
[Sudden stop]
[Outro - Wind. Silence. Cracking ice.]
[Whispered, fading]
They built walls...
They built weapons...
They built hopes...
[Long pause]
...I built this mountain.
[Final sound - Ice sheet collapsing, then nothing]
AsheTheHyena
