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ILLIUM - NIHIL MANET

V6

[INTRO] What remains... when everything changes? [Silence] [Male] Nihil manet. (Nothing remains.) Nothing remains. [Atmospheric Rise] [VERSE] Quod erat, (What once was,) iam non est. (is no more.) Tempus fugit. (Time flies.) Omnia mutantur. (Everything changes.) Loci mutantur. (Places change.) Nos mutamur. (We change.) [Pause] Nothing remains. (Nothing remains.) [PRE-DROP] The places change. The faces change. The years disappear. [Pause] And so do I. [Silence] [DROP I - BRUTAL TEAROUT] NIHIL! (NOTHING!) MANET! (REMAINS!) NIHIL! (NOTHING!) MANET! (REMAINS!) MUTATUR! (CHANGES!) [BREAK - Child - Female, Young, Whispered] Nothing remains. [Male Baritone - Quiet] But I remember. [VERSE II - Male Baritone, Dark, Aggressive] Memoria manet. (Memory remains.) Sed mutatur. (But it changes.) Vita transit. (Life passes.) Tempus rapit. (Time carries [everything] away.) Vox evanescit. (The voice fades away.) Imago frangitur. (The image breaks.) Sed vestigium (But a trace) manet. (remains.) [PRE-DROP II - Male Baritone, Building] We lose the moment. We lose the place. We lose the person we used to be. [Pause] But something remains. [Silence] [DROP II - EXTREME TEAROUT] NIHIL MANET! (NOTHING REMAINS!) NIHIL MANET! (NOTHING REMAINS!) OMNIA MUTANTUR! (EVERYTHING CHANGES!) [Instrumental Tearout Section] [BREAK II - Child - Female, Young, Whispered] Is everything lost? [Long Pause] [Male Baritone - Very Quiet] No. [BUILD - Choir Rising] Nothing remains the same. (Nothing remains the same.) [FINAL PRE-DROP - Male Baritone, Deep] I thought nothing remained. [Pause] I was wrong. [Long Silence] Nothing remains the same. (Nothing remains the same.) [FINAL DROP - MASSIVE BRUTAL TEAROUT + MALE CHOIR] NIHIL MANET! (NOTHING REMAINS!) OMNIA MUTANTUR! (EVERYTHING CHANGES!) NIHIL MANET! (NOTHING REMAINS!) SED ALIQUID NASCITUR! (BUT SOMETHING IS BORN!) [Chopped Vocal] NIHIL MANET! OMNIA MUTANTUR! [FINAL IMPACT] SED ALIQUID NASCITUR! (BUT SOMETHING IS BORN!) [Silence] [OUTRO - Male Baritone, Distant] Nothing remains. [Pause] But something is born.