[Theme — Quiet: Female vocal, near silence, single guitar note repeating] No name on the stone No stone at all Just the ground and the grass And the rain that will fall [Variation 1 — Add Layers: Acoustic guitar joins, then low cello] [Female vocal, same melody, slightly fuller] They buried him fast Before the story could cool Before the ink could dry On the version for the fools The ground took him in The way ground always does Without ceremony Without pause Without because [Variation 2: Piano enters, fuller texture] [Female vocal, expanding] But the story kept moving The way stories always do Long after the body Is finished with the truth They made him a legend They made him a lie They made him a poster They made him the kind of sky That people look up at When they want to believe That a man can be more Than the things that he'd grieve [Variation 3: Full band, strings implied, approaching climax] [Female vocal, powerful now] I knew him differently I knew him in the cold I knew him in the argument I knew him growing old Before he got the chance He was twenty-one and furious And twenty-one and scared And twenty-one and breathing And twenty-one and there [Climax: Full instrumentation, vocal at peak] No grave marker But the land remembers No grave marker But the wind keeps the time No grave marker And the myth keeps on burning While the boy underneath it Was only ever mine [Sudden Stop: Complete silence] [End]
