

Prompt / Lyrics
[INTRO] [Low, rumbling bass. The sound of wind over ash. A distant alarm, long since abandoned. A voice, fractured, barely there:] "They said it would save us. They said it would be light." [Silence. Then—the sound of ignition.] [VERSE 1] [A single, clean piano note. A voice, almost peaceful, remembering.] Before the fire, there was Coral A song beneath the stone They said it held the future A future we could own They built their towers to the sky Their harvesters to the core They said they knew what they were doing They said they knew what it was for We believed them We always believe them When they say they know the way We believed them Right up to the moment When the sky turned grey [CHORUS] [The track ignites. Distorted, overwhelming. Voices layered—screaming, praying, silent.] The Fires of Ibis took it all The towers, the towers, the towers fall The Coral burned from sea to sky And Rubicon learned how to die We lit the match, we struck the spark We built the pyre, we made the dark The Fires of Ibis, the Fires of Ibis A lesson written in the scar [VERSE 2] [A single voice, older, worn. Carla's voice, perhaps. Someone who was there.] I watched it from the edge The sky turned white, then red I heard them scream through the comms And then I heard nothing instead They said it was containment A sacrifice for the whole But you don't burn a planet To save a soul You burn it because you're afraid You burn it because you can You burn it because you looked at the fire And thought you could hold it in your hand [CHORUS] [More distorted. More desperate. The fire spreads.] The Fires of Ibis took it all The towers, the towers, the towers fall The Coral burned from sea to sky And Rubicon learned how to die We lit the match, we struck the spark We built the pyre, we made the dark The Fires of Ibis, the Fires of Ibis A lesson written in the scar [BRIDGE] [Track pulls back. Just wind. A single voice, hollow.] They say the Coral survived That it grew back from the ash That the fire only made it stronger That the burn was just a flash But I saw what it did I saw what it made I saw the bodies in the streets The children in the shade You don't come back from that Not really, not whole You just learn to carry the fire In a different kind of coal [FINAL VERSE] [The track builds again, but not to explosion. To something heavier. Something that doesn't end.] Fifty years later, they're back Drilling the same holes Reading the same old lies From the same old scrolls They say this time it's different That they've learned from before But I've seen the way they look at the Coral The same hunger, the same core You can't teach a wolf not to hunt You can't teach a fire not to burn You can only hope, when it comes again That you've learned what you should have learned [OUTRO] "They said it would save us.” “They lied.”
Tags
Ambient, Post-Industrial, Nerdcore
4:47
No
3/25/2026