[Intro — The song opens with a lonely, crystalline Koto melody playing a traditional-sounding folk riff. Suddenly, a massive "sub-drop" hits, and the guitars enter with a chugging, syncopated rhythm that mirrors the Koto’s melody]
[Verse 1 - Clean/Ethereal Vocals]
Silver wings, heavy with the dust of the slain
I carry the cost of the gods in my veins
A debt paid in ichor, a price set in gold
For a throne in the clouds that is brittle and cold.
[Koto flourishes between vocal lines]
[Pre-Chorus - Building Tension, Screams begin]
The sky is a prison!
The nectar is poison!
I looked in your eyes and I felt the descent
A heartbeat of clay that the heavens won't rent!
[Chorus - Melodic Anime Style, High Energy]
Fall with me, through the shattering glass of the stars!
Forbidden fire, burning through these ancient scars!
The Aesir will howl as the Valkyrie dies,
But I’d trade my immortality for one look in your eyes!
Love is the treason, the vengeance is mine!
[Verse 2 - Aggressive, Screamed/Gritty vocals]
[Heavy blast beats on the drums]
They demand a sacrifice!
They hunger for the souls of the brave!
But who guards the guardian?
Who saves the one who cannot be saved?
Your mortality is a fever—and I am burning up!
[Breakdown - The music stops for a split second. A glitchy, distorted Koto lick plays, then the heaviest riff of the song hits—slow, sludge-like, and crushing]
CROWN OF THORNS!
THRONE OF LIES!
[Low guttural scream]
LET THE HEAVENS BURN!
[The Koto plays a frantic, high-pitched melody over the rhythmic "chugs" of the guitar]
I AM NO LONGER YOUR BLADE!
[Bridge] - Atmospheric/Spoken Word
[Music thins out to just the Koto and a pulsing synth bass]
The gods don't understand the weight of a single human breath.
They call it a fall.
I call it... waking up.
[Final Chorus - Max Volume, Full orchestral backing, soaring vocals, double-time drums]
Fall with me, through the shattering glass of the stars!
Forbidden fire, burning through these ancient scars!
The Aesir will howl as the Valkyrie dies,
But I’d trade my immortality for one look in your eyes!
[Outro, metal fades out abruptly, leaving only the synthetic Koto playing the opening melody, but this time it sounds slightly out of tune and "broken." A final whispered line]
"I’m human now."
[Instrumental break - downtuned bass and guitar play in drop D tuning, heavy, fast paced and off-time drums thunder]
NOW!
Atlantica
