[Intro: distant wind, faint radio-like prayers, solitary clean guitar] At first I thought they were sleeping Gods disappear sometimes A century A decade A night We have different definitions Of being gone [Pause] Then Vaelune stopped answering. [Verse 1: low clean vocal, sparse instrumentation] The moon still crossed the heavens Silver spilling on the sea Tides still climbed the empty shoreline But she wouldn't speak to me I called beneath her oldest temple Used the name she gave me first Nothing moved behind the moonlight Nothing answered from the dark Then Velkara's storms went silent Not the thunder Just her voice Lightning still divided heaven But there was nobody behind it [Pre-Chorus: slow drums entering] One by one The heavens kept working One by one The gods went still [Chorus: huge, mournful melodic metalcore] I MAY BE THE LAST GOD AWAKE The last voice left behind the sky The last one hearing mortal prayers Still asking gods to stay alive The moon still turns The stars still burn The dead still cross where rivers wait But nobody answers anymore I MAY BE THE LAST GOD AWAKE [Verse 2: guitars deepen] Orun's clocks kept moving Though I never heard him count Morvane's gates still opened But he never once came out Aestra's final star kept burning Cold and distant overhead Serathiel's scales stayed balanced With no judge beside them Kaelor's banners turned to dust His throne remained untouched Solvar's fire crossed the morning But the sunrise felt like machinery [Pre-Chorus 2] Their power didn't vanish Their places didn't break The universe remembered what to do After the gods stopped waking [Chorus] I MAY BE THE LAST GOD AWAKE The last voice left behind the sky The last one hearing mortal prayers Still asking gods to stay alive The moon still turns The stars still burn The dead still cross where rivers wait But nobody answers anymore I MAY BE THE LAST GOD AWAKE [Interlude: layers of distant whispered prayers] [Voices, overlapping] Vaelune... Aestra... Serathiel... Morvane... Please.. Someone... Anyone... [Gradually all voices converge] Fenrir. Fenrir. Fenrir. [Low Fenrir vocal] No. Don't do that. [Verse 3: intimate, unsettled] Their prayers began arriving At temples that were never mine Sailors asking me for moonlight Dying men requesting time Judges asking me for answers Children begging storms to end People asking where their gods went Like I hadn't asked the same I tried directing every prayer Toward the throne where it belonged They returned to me unopened [Pause] Every single one [Instrumental swell] That was when I understood The heavens weren't empty They were waiting And somehow I was the only one Still saying anything [Bridge: piano, low cello, almost spoken] I went back to the hall Ten thrones Nine silent Mine still warm [Pause] And beneath the floor The place where the eleventh should have been Was silent too For once That frightened me more [Low choir enters] Because whatever happened Didn't only take the gods We remembered [Pause] It took something We tried to forget [Breakdown: enormous, slow, desperate] [Harsh vocal] VAELUNE! NO ANSWER SOLVAR! NO FLAME MORVANE! NOTHING BUT AN EMPTY FUCKING NAME [Gang vocals] WHERE DID YOU GO? [Harsh vocal] ORUN KAELOR AESTRA SPEAK SERATHIEL VELKARA NYTHRA ANSWER ME [Silence] [Fenrir, clean] ...Please. [Long silence] [Final movement begins softly] [Verse 4: exhausted clean vocal] For the first time in eternity I stopped calling Sat beneath the empty heavens And listened instead No prophecy No revelation No ancient voice returned Just billions of living hearts Still beating beneath me [Pause] Maybe that was enough [Final Chorus: starts restrained, becomes colossal] IF I AM THE LAST GOD AWAKE Then I will stay awake tonight If there is nobody left to answer I will keep one voice alive Let the moon still turn Let the stars still burn Let every frightened prayer arrive I don't know where the others went I don't know if they'll return But until somebody answers me I WILL ANSWER THEM [Choir rises] Not because I'm king Not because I'm chosen Not because the heavens Belong to me [Harsh backing vocal] THEY DON'T [Clean lead] But someone has to remain When the silence comes [Final Chorus reprise: full band] I AM THE LAST GOD AWAKE Or maybe only the last one here The last fool shouting into heaven Waiting for a voice to reappear Ten thrones One flame One god who refuses to look away If morning comes And I'm still alone Then I'll be here AWAKE [Outro: instrumentation gradually disappears until only clean guitar remains] [Low clean vocal] The moon rose this morning Without Vaelune The sun followed Without Solvar Time moved The dead passed on The storm came and went Everything worked [Long pause] Everything Except us [Very distant whisper] Fenrir... [Fenrir] Vaelune? [Silence] [Another whisper, impossible to identify] No. [Final Chorus reprise: full band] I AM THE LAST GOD AWAKE Or maybe only the last one here The last fool shouting into heaven Waiting for a voice to reappear Ten thrones One flame One god who refuses to look away If morning comes And I'm still alone Then I'll be here AWAKE [Outro: instrumentation gradually disappears until only clean guitar remains] [Low clean vocal] The moon rose this morning Without Vaelune The sun followed Without Solvar Time moved The dead passed on The storm came and went Everything worked [Long pause] Everything Except us [Very distant whisper] Fenrir... [Fenrir] Vaelune? [Silence] [Another whisper, impossible to identify] No.
