What If It All Works Out? Rebuild 1.0

[INTRO — low Irish war drum pulse, dark drone, distant bowed strings] [clean reverbed electric guitar slowly picking] [Lead Vocal — intimate, weary Irish phrasing] [Male Singer - TriGem] What if... [pause] [Female Singer - Samantha] What if all this worry Was only ghosts in the fog, lad? [soft female harmony drifting behind] [Female Singer - Samantha] In the fog... [low bass note swells] [VERSE 1 — restrained grunge guitar, deep tom pulse] [Male Singer - TriGem] I wake before the mornin’ With a storm behind my eyes Every little silence Feels like somethin’ about to die I carry every heartbreak Before it even comes Spendin’ all me days preparin’ For damage not yet done [soft harmony underneath] [Male Singer - TriGem] Ah now... There’s got to be more than this [guitar tension rises] [PRE-CHORUS — toms widening slowly] [Female Singer - Samantha] Maybe fear’s just old thunder Still rattlin’ through the bones [Male Singer - TriGem] Maybe the soul remembers peace Even when the mind says no [CHORUS — massive Irish grunge lift] WHAT IF IT ALL WORKS OUT?! What if the dark rolls off somehow?! What if the weight we’ve carried all these years Finally leaves us now?! [haunting female vocal soaring] [Female Singer - Samantha] What if the heart keeps singin’ Even after hope burns out?! [Male Singer - TriGem] What if imagination knows What the world keeps drownin’ out?! [distorted guitar swell] [INTERLUDE — dark Celtic textures] [ebow guitar drones] [mournful tin whistle] [low harmony chanting] Ohhhhhhh... [VERSE 2 — heavier guitars, emotional intensity building] [Male Singer - TriGem] Reality keeps barkin’ Bills Pressure Time Loss Like we’re all meant to break our backs Just carryin’ the cross [Female Singer - Samantha] But imagination... Ah, imagination still whispers [Male Singer - TriGem] Through the static and the sorrow [Female Singer - Samantha] Sayin’ maybe life’s not punishin’ us Maybe we just forgot tomorrow [deep tom fills] [PRE-CHORUS 2 — emotional lift] [Male Singer - TriGem] I spent years expectin’ collapse Before the day could even begin Meanwhile life kept knockin’ softly Tryin’ to let the light back in [CHORUS 2 — larger and more emotional] [Male Singer - TriGem] WHAT IF IT ALL WORKS OUT?! [Duet - TriGem and Samantha] Even after all this pain?! Even after all the sleepless nights Spent drownin’ in the rain?! [female harmony soaring high] What if the scars ain’t failure? What if they’re proof we survived? What if the soul keeps crawlin’ upward Because it still believes in life?! [huge distorted Celtic guitar swell] [BRIDGE — stripped nearly bare] [clean guitar and distant drone only] [Male Singer - TriGem] [Vocal nearly breaking] How many beautiful moments Did I lose to fear? [Female Singer - Samantha] How many times Did love stand right before me— [Male Singer - TriGem] And I disappeared? [long silence] [Female Singer - Samantha] Ah love... You’re still here [FINAL BUILD — drums and guitars climbing continuously] [layered vocals rising] Breathe now... Just breathe... [Female Singer - Samantha] You don’t have to carry tomorrow on yer back tonight [bagpipes swelling low beneath guitars] [Male Singer - TriGem] The rivers still run The stars still burn And somehow this old world Keeps turnin’ [FINAL CHORUS — overwhelming Celtic grunge catharsis] WHAT IF IT ALL WORKS OUT?! [Duet - TriGem and Samantha] What if we’re stronger than sorrow?! What if the heart was made to survive Every broken tomorrow?! [huge layered harmonies] What if hope survives the wreckage?! What if love outlives the fear?! What if the reason we keep singin’ Is because we’re still bloody here?! [guitars roaring] STILL HERE! STILL HERE! WHAT IF IT ALL WORKS OUT?! [OUTRO — distorted guitars fading into mournful whistle and drone] [wordless female harmony] Ohhhhhhh... [soft whispered vocal] [Male Singer - TriGem] Maybe it does... [last guitar harmonic fading into silence]