The First Curse and the Final Blade

Verse I (slow, ominous)
Before the age of tempered steel, before the sacred flame,
There stirred a hunger in the dark that bore no mortal name.
No breath it drew, no heart it beat, yet death obeyed its call,
And from its will the curse was born—the eldest sin of all.

⸻

Verse II
It walked among the sons of men with hollow, crimson gaze,
And those it touched were left undone, unbound from mortal days.
A plague of night, a whispered doom that spread from vein to vein,
For death no longer claimed its due, and life became a chain.

⸻

Pre-Chorus
No prayer could halt its creeping hand,
No sword could make it yield the land—

⸻

Chorus (heavy, fearful)
Beware the first of shadows,
The father of the damned,
From blood it weaves its kingdom
With cold, unyielding hand.
No dawn could break its dominion,
No light could pierce its reign,
For where the first curse lingers,
All life is bound in chains.

⸻

Verse III (shift begins—still dark, but moving)
Yet from the ash of broken lives, where hope had long since died,
There rose a will that would not bend, nor turn its gaze aside.
A soul once marked by mortal grief, now tempered into steel,
Who walked the path no man should tread, yet swore the curse to kill.

⸻

Pre-Chorus (Variant)
Through blood and flame, through endless night,
He bore the weight, he claimed the fight—

⸻

Chorus (Shifted Meaning)
Behold the end of shadows,
The breaker of the damned,
He tore apart their kingdom
With scarred and bleeding hands.
Where none could stand before it,
He faced the endless night,
And struck the first of curses
To bring the world its light.

⸻

Bridge (quiet, uncertain)
What man can walk through death itself
And not be changed within?
What soul can bear the weight of night
And not be marked by sin?

⸻

Final Chorus (Reverent, but unresolved)
Sing of the fallen hunter,
The last to bear the flame,
He cast down death’s beginning
And vanished with its name.
If light was bought through sacrifice
No living soul can see,
Then pray the cost was worth the dawn…
And what it came to be.

Orchestral with an all male choir.