[Intro - Slow, heavy rain. Distant bells. A single, crushing doom riff.]
(Ancient, hollow voice)
I have buried a thousand friends beneath the ancient trees...
They say that time is healing... but time is all I've known.
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[Verse 1 - Devastatingly slow]
I've buried a thousand friends beneath the ancient trees
I've sung their funeral hymns and felt the passing breeze
I've watched their children's children grow and fade away
While I remain upon this cliff—another endless day
The Gathering Hall was built when I was barely young
I watched them raise its timbers, heard the first songs sung
Now it's weathered, grey, like everything I touch
I've lived too long—I've stayed too long, it's too much
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[Pre-Chorus - Ethereal choir]
Time moves on... but I stay...
Everyone... fades away
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[Chorus - Crushing doom metal]
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! I'VE OUTLIVED EVERYONE I LOVE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! THE WORLD TURNS, AND I WATCH FROM ABOVE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! THEY CALL IT A GIFT—IT'S A CURSE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! I'VE BEEN SINGING THIS VERSE
Since the first...
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[Verse 2 - Building grief]
I loved a human once—her name was lost to time
She aged and withered in my arms, I watched her final climb
She smiled and said "Don't grieve—you'll love again, I know"
I haven't loved another since—that was a thousand years ago
I loved a Wyverian once, my own kind, she was fair
We had a century together—now her ghost is in the air
She haunts the places that we walked, the forests where we'd roam
I talk to her at night—she never answers, never comes home
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[Pre-Chorus 2]
Memories haunt my soul...
Time's cruel tide takes its toll
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[Chorus]
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! I'VE OUTLIVED EVERYONE I LOVE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! THE WORLD TURNS, AND I WATCH FROM ABOVE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! THEY CALL IT A GIFT—IT'S A CURSE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! I'VE BEEN SINGING THIS VERSE
Since the first...
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[Bridge - Spoken over piano]
(Whispered)
I am the last of my generation. The last to remember.
When I die... it will all be gone.
(Screamed)
BUT I CAN'T DIE! I JUST KEEP LIVING!
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[Verse 3 - Anguished]
I've watched empires rise and fall! I've watched the Guild expand!
I was there when Fatalis first rose! I was there when it fell!
I've watched history repeat itself—a never-ending hell!
The hunters come, the hunters go, they never understand
That immortality is not a gift—it's a command
To watch everyone you love turn to dust and stone
The elder's lament is that I walk this path alone!
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[Guitar Solo - Doom metal, weeping, infinite feedback]
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[Final Chorus - Massive, collapsing]
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! I'VE OUTLIVED EVERYONE I LOVE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! THE WORLD TURNS, AND I WATCH FROM ABOVE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! THEY CALL IT A GIFT—IT'S A CURSE!
THE ELDER'S LAMENT! I'VE BEEN SINGING THIS VERSE
Since the first... and I'll be singing it forever
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[Outro - Fading to silence]
(Whispered)
The rain falls on their graves again...
...I should be in one of them.
...but I'm still here.
always
AsheTheHyena
