Before Their Time

[Verse 1 (Isolde – calm, foreboding)]
I have watched the years like a patient flame,
Watched men grow bold, watched them change the game.
Steel and thunder in fragile hands,
Reaching for power they don’t understand.
Two of our kind have already fallen,
Silenced by those we once called nothing.

[Pre-Chorus (rising urgency)]
They are not the same as the world we knew,
They have learned… and they will come for you.

[Chorus (Call & Response Chant Begins)]
[Isolde (Call):]
Wake, oh wake, before your time,
The world is shifting out of its rhyme—

[Chant (Response – layered):]
Vorath… Vorath… Drak’thal un rae…
(Awaken… awaken… rise before time…)
[Isolde (Call):]
Thirty years, sixty more—no longer safe to wait,

[Chant (Response):]
Mor’kai… vel nor… thrae…
(We hear… we stir… we rise…)
[Isolde (Call):]
The children of men now challenge fate—
[Chant (Response, building):]
Sel’veth… nor… thrae…
(They wake… we rise…)

[Verse 2 (Isolde – more commanding now)]
I walked among them, unseen, unknown,
Watched them build what we overthrew.
Fire in powder, death in their aim,
No longer prey in a hunter’s game.
If you sleep, you will not rise—
They will find you where you lie.

[Pre-Chorus (stronger warning)]
This is the hour the old world breaks,
And only the waking power takes.
[Chorus (Full Ritual, stronger)]
[Isolde (Call):]
Wake, oh wake, before your time,
The age of silence is out of line—
[Full Chant (Response – louder, layered voices):]
Vorath… Vorath… Drak’thal un rae…
(Awaken… awaken… rise before time…)
[Isolde (Call):]
No more waiting in shadowed graves,
[Angmar (Response – deep):]
Krae… thal… vak…
(We break… we rise… we take…)
[Isolde (Call):]
The world belongs to those who wake—
[Slyvern (Response – whispering):]
Sel… nor… veth…
(They sleep… they fall… unseen…)

[Bridge (Low, intense, truth revealed)]
Two have fallen—remember their flame,
Brought to silence, brought to shame.
Not by gods, nor ancient hand,
But by the will of mortal man.
If you rise, you rise to war,
Not the world that was before.

[Final Chorus (All voices, full power)]
[Isolde (Commanding):]
Rise, Angmar—let the black mist fall!
Rise, Slyvern—let the silence call!
[All Voices (Chant – overwhelming):]
Vorath… Vorath… Drak’thal un rae…
(Awaken… awaken… rise before time…)

[Dragons (Final Response):]
Krae… Nor… Thrae…
(We rise… we claim… we are…)

Dark cinematic folk ritual; female lead, call-response chant, deep drums, low choir, whispers, rising tension, epic.