No More (Final)

dark orchestral pop, melancholic, piano-driven, strings, male or female solo vocal, art rock, theatrical

[Intro - Spoken/Whispered]
They told us knowledge would set us free
But freedom tastes like ash to me

[Verse 1]
No more chariots flying through the skies
No more saints down chimneys at night
Science has executed those dreadful lies
Fantasy's frail against Logic's might

[Verse 2]
No more boatmen ushering deceased souls
No more torture in Circles of Hell
Let not afterlife intrude on goals
Be they furtive or flagrant or fell

[Pre-Chorus]
We traded wonder for the truth
Exchanged our dreams for proof
Now every miracle's explained away
Nothing sacred left to say

[Chorus]
No more, no more magic in the air
No more mysteries anywhere
We've solved it all, we've broken the spell
Built our heaven, razed our hell
No more, no more stories to believe
Just the facts that we perceive
Tell me why I mourn what we've outgrown
Why do I miss what I've never known?

[Verse 3]
No more arrows piercing mortals' hearts
No more red string between man and wife
All that you feel are the pharmacists' arts
Powerless is love to transcend this life

[Verse 4]
No more Prometheus to give us fire
No more Odin to redirect hail
We must labor for all we desire
Even then, most likely, we will fail

[Pre-Chorus 2]
The gods are dead, we killed them all
With microscopes and protocols
Every legend's just a cautionary tale
Every myth's a test we failed

[Bridge]
No more Godmothers to answer Cinderella's plea
No more dwarves to rally Snow White's cause
Those in power tend to stay indefinitely
"Survival of the fittest" is one of science's laws
But here I sit with pen in hand
Writing tales of wonderland
Creating what I claim is dead
Filling pages with the myths I've shed

[Verse 5 - Quiet, introspective]
Why then am I here right now?
Why then am I one of them?
Must be brain cells going foul
To like this craft I condemn

[Final Verse - New addition]
Or maybe magic never died at all
It just learned to hide its face
Behind equations on the wall
In the void of outer space
Perhaps the wonder that we lost
Was just the courage to believe
That mystery's worth any cost
And some truths we'll never retrieve

[Final Chorus - Modified]
No more, no more magic that we see
No more fairy tales for free
We've solved so much, we've broken the spell
Built our heaven, razed our hell
But still, but still, something in me grieves
For the stories I can't leave
I mourn the world that we've outgrown
While building new myths of my own

[Outro - Fading]
No more chariots in the skies
But still I write these lovely lies
No more magic, so they say
Yet here I am, creating anyway...

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[Intro - Spoken/Whispered] They told us knowledge would set us free But freedom tastes like ash to me [Verse 1] No more chariots flying through the skies No more saints down chimneys at night Science has executed those dreadful lies Fantasy's frail against Logic's might [Verse 2] No more boatmen ushering deceased souls No more torture in Circles of Hell Let not afterlife intrude on goals Be they furtive or flagrant or fell [Pre-Chorus] We traded wonder for the truth Exchanged our dreams for proof Now every miracle's explained away Nothing sacred left to say [Chorus] No more, no more magic in the air No more mysteries anywhere We've solved it all, we've broken the spell Built our heaven, razed our hell No more, no more stories to believe Just the facts that we perceive Tell me why I mourn what we've outgrown Why do I miss what I've never known? [Verse 3] No more arrows piercing mortals' hearts No more red string between man and wife All that you feel are the pharmacists' arts Powerless is love to transcend this life [Verse 4] No more Prometheus to give us fire No more Odin to redirect hail We must labor for all we desire Even then, most likely, we will fail [Pre-Chorus 2] The gods are dead, we killed them all With microscopes and protocols Every legend's just a cautionary tale Every myth's a test we failed [Chorus] No more, no more magic in the air No more mysteries anywhere We've solved it all, we've broken the spell Built our heaven, razed our hell No more, no more stories to believe Just the facts that we perceive Tell me why I mourn what we've outgrown Why do I miss what I've never known? [Bridge] No more Godmothers to answer Cinderella's plea No more dwarves to rally Snow White's cause Those in power tend to stay indefinitely "Survival of the fittest" is one of science's laws But here I sit with pen in hand Writing tales of wonderland Creating what I claim is dead Filling pages with the myths I've shed [Verse 5 - Quiet, introspective] Why then am I here right now? Why then am I one of them? Must be brain cells going foul To like this craft I condemn [Final Verse - New addition] Or maybe magic never died at all It just learned to hide its face Behind equations on the wall In the void of outer space Perhaps the wonder that we lost Was just the courage to believe That mystery's worth any cost And some truths we'll never retrieve [Final Chorus - Modified] No more, no more magic that we see No more fairy tales for free We've solved so much, we've broken the spell Built our heaven, razed our hell But still, but still, something in me grieves For the stories I can't leave I mourn the world that we've outgrown While building new myths of my own [Outro - Fading] No more chariots in the skies But still I write these lovely lies No more magic, so they say Yet here I am, creating anyway...

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