[(Single, clean yodel – held for 16 seconds, slowly decaying)]
"Yoooooooo... del... lay..."
[(First power chord – rings for 12 seconds before the next.)]
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[VERSE 1 (Guitars enter – glacial, downtuned to B. Drums: one cymbal crash per measure.)]
[(Growled, then answered by a clean yodel echo)]
The cheese wheel froze to the mountainside—
Yodel... [(echo: yodel...)]
My breath escaped in a frost-white tide—
Yodel... [(echo: yodel...)]
The goats all knelt in the crystal snow—
Yodel... [(echo: yodel...)]
They knew what I was too slow to know—
YOOOO-DEL-LAY... HOOOO...
[(Guitar feedback swells for 30 seconds.)]
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[CHORUS 1 (Slower – if that's possible. Each syllable is a funeral bell.)]
YOOOO... DEL... LAY... HEE...
[(Pause – 4 seconds of silence)]
...THE CREVASSE CALLS MY NAME...
YOOOO... DEL... LAY... HAAAA...
[(Pause – drums: one single bass drum thud)]
...THE SUMMIT FEASTS ON SHAME...
YI... DEL... LAY... HOOO...
[(Guitar sustains a single note for 22 seconds.)]
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[VERSE 2 (Even lower – sub-bass frequencies. Yodeler now weeping between notes.)]
I carved my will into glacier ice—
...yodel...
But the thaw came once, it came twice—
...yodel...
My wife's last words? "Milk the goats."
...yodel...
Now I yodel through a frozen throat—
YOOOO-DEL-LAY... GOOOOOOOD...
[(Why? Because He didn't answer.)]
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[BRIDGE (The "butter" section – acoustic guitar, lonely, like a dying campfire.)]
[(Spoken, not sung:)]
"Goodbye, Buttercup. Goodbye, Clover.
I'll see you both when the permafrost thaws...
...or never."
[(One clean, heartbreaking yodel:)]
"Yiiiii... del... lay... home..."
[(Returns to distortion – heavier than before.)]
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[FINAL CHORUS (Full band – but each chord lasts an eternity. Yodeler now screaming.)]
YOOOO–DEL–LAY–HELL–BOUND!
[(Tom fill – 6 seconds)]
YOOOO–DEL–LAY–THE–GROUND!
[(Cymbal wash – fades to nothing)]
YIIIII... DEL... LAY...
[(Whisper:)] "...butter..."
[(Single piano note – F# – rings out.)]
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[ OUTRO (1:30 – just wind, and that same cowbell, slower now.)]
[(Faint, distant yodel – as if from the crevasse itself)]
"Yoooo... del... lay..."
[(Longer pause.)]
[(Even fainter:)]
"...help..."
[(One final cowbell strike.)]
DING...
AsheTheHyena
