[Intro - Minutes of low-end rumble. Sub-bass that shakes organs. Distant scraping.]
[Ancient, echoing whisper]
Before the mountains... there was the serpent...
Before the valleys... there was the coil...
Listen...
[Verse 1 - So slow it's barely moving. One chord. Minutes long.]
I... am... the... mountain... you... climb...
My... spine... the... peaks... that... scrape... the... sky...
You... think... you... stand... on... solid... ground...
You... stand... on... me...
[Pre-Chorus - Building, still glacial]
Scale... by... scale...
Year... by... year...
Hunter... by... hunter...
Disappear...
[Chorus - Crushing, monolithic]
DALAMADUR! COIL OF THE WORLD!
DALAMADUR! FLAGS UNFURLED!
DALAMADUR! MOUNTAINS ARE MY SKIN!
DALAMADUR! THE SERPENT'S DANCE BEGINS!
[Verse 2 - Still impossibly slow]
My... shed... skin... becomes... the... cliffs...
My... bones... the... caves... you... mine... for... gifts...
Raph... no... to... es... they... worship... me...
Be... fore... they... knew... to... pray...
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Meteor... breath...
Hunters... death...
Rumbling... beneath...
Holding... breath...
[Chorus]
DALAMADUR! COIL OF THE WORLD!
DALAMADUR! FLAGS UNFURLED!
DALAMADUR! MOUNTAINS ARE MY SKIN!
DALAMADUR! THE SERPENT'S DANCE BEGINS!
[Bridge - Spoken over infinite feedback]
They count my segments... twenty... thirty... forty...
They think numbers mean they understand...
[Long pause]
...the snake has no end.
[Even longer pause]
...and no beginning.
[Band returns, heavier]
I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN HERE.
I WILL ALWAYS BE HERE.
YOU ARE JUST...
[Whisper]
...passing through.
[Guitar Solo - One note. Held for two minutes. Maximum feedback.]
[Breakdown - The slowest possible tempo]
LEFT... (COIL...)
RIGHT... (SQUEEZE...)
TIGHTER... (PLEASE...)
BREATHING... CEASE...
METEOR... (RAIN...)
HUNTERS... (SLAIN...)
FOREVER... (REIGN...)
DALAMADUR... REMAINS...
[Final Chorus - The weight of continents]
DALAMADUR! (DALAMADUR!)
COIL OF THE WORLD! (COIL OF THE WORLD!)
DALAMADUR! (DALAMADUR!)
FLAGS UNFURLED! (FLAGS UNFURLED!)
DALAMADUR! (DALAMADUR!)
MOUNTAINS ARE MY SKIN! (ARE MY SKIN!)
DALAMADUR! (DALAMADUR!)
THE SERPENT'S DANCE—
[Outro - Fading to nothing over several minutes]
[Whispered, barely audible]
...never... ends...
[One minute of silence]
...never... began...
[Two minutes of low rumble]
...I am... the mountain...
[Rumble fades]
...you... climb...
[Final sound - A single scale falling. It takes thirty seconds to hit the ground.]
AsheTheHyena
