[INTRO: 70 BPM feel, D minor, distant wind] [SOLO PIANO: sparse, dark] [ALPINE HORN: distant low drone] [DEEP MALE BASS-BARITONE: intimate, almost whispered] I heard a voice beneath the stone, A sound the mountain called its own. No name. No face. No words to say. Only an echo far away. [DISTANT YODEL: haunting, wordless] Yo-de-lay... Yo-de-lay-ee-oo... [VERSE 1: deep restrained vocal, piano + sub-bass] I climbed where frozen rivers sleep, Where roots of ancient mountains reach. The higher that I tried to go, The deeper came the voice below. It called— [YODELER: distant] Yo-de-lay-ee... [BARITONE] I answered— [LOW VOCAL] I am here. [SUB-BASS RISE] [PRE-CHORUS: drums enter slowly] One voice becomes another. One echo becomes a roar. The mountain was not calling me— [BARITONE: rising power] It was calling us all. [DROP: 105 BPM, 8-string guitars + dubstep bass] [CHORUS: huge melodic metal] WAKE THE MOUNTAIN! SHAKE THE STONE! [YODEL CHOIR] Yo-de-lay-ee-OOO! CALL THE THUNDER! BRING IT HOME! [YODEL CHOIR] Holadi-EE! Holadi-OO! [BARITONE: sustained] IF THE WORLD WILL NOT HEAR US— [ALL] WE'LL MAKE THE MOUNTAIN SING! [DUBSTEP BASS DROP] WUB—WUB—GRRRAAAH! [GUITAR mirrors bass rhythm] [VERSE 2: industrial groove] Iron wakes beneath our feet. Ancient rhythm. Modern beat. A thousand years inside one breath, Beauty dancing next to death. [BARITONE] I hear the old world— [YODELER] Yo-de-lay-HEE! [BARITONE] Inside the new. [DUBSTEP VOCAL CHOP: rhythmic yodel fragments] YO-YO-DE-DE-LAY-LAY-HEE! [PRE-DROP: everything strips away] [DEEP BARITONE: a cappella] Listen. [SILENCE] [YODELER: pure sustained note] Yoooo-de-lay-EEEE— [SUB-BASS gradually follows yodel pitch] [BARITONE] Now... Break it. [YÖDELCORE DROP: enormous half-time] [YODEL] YO! [GUITAR + BASS] CHUG-WUB! [YODEL] DE! [GUITAR + BASS] CHUG-WUB! [YODEL] LAY! [ALL] CHUG-CHUG-WUB! [YODEL: rapid register flips] YO-DE-LAY-EE-YO-DE-LAY-OO! [DUBSTEP BASS copies exact yodel contour] [8-STRING GUITAR copies both] [POLYRHYTHMIC BREAKDOWN] [BARITONE] LOWER. [SUB-BASS drops octave] [BARITONE] HEAVIER. [HALF-TIME BREAKDOWN] [BARITONE: monstrous sustained clean note] WAKE— [YODEL CHOIR rises behind him] [BARITONE] THE— [DOUBLE KICK ENTERS] [BARITONE] MOUNTAIN! [FINAL CHORUS: key rises whole step, full choir] WAKE THE MOUNTAIN! SHAKE THE STONE! [YODEL CHOIR] YO-DE-LAY-EE-OOO! CALL THE THUNDER! BRING IT HOME! We are the echo, We are the sound, Old as the heavens, Heavy as the ground! [BARITONE + YODELER: counterpoint] If the world will not hear us— [ALL] WE'LL MAKE THE MOUNTAIN SING! [FINAL DROP: dubstep + metalcore + yodel simultaneously] [YODEL CHOIR] HOLADI-EE! HOLADI-OO! YO-DE-LAY-EE-OOO! [BARITONE: underneath, descending] Sing. Sing. Sing. [INSTRUMENTS abruptly stop] [PIANO returns] [DISTANT YODELER] Yo-de-lay-ee... [DEEP BARITONE: whisper] It answered. [ALPINE HORN] [END]
