[Intro, Atmospheric Clean Guitar Building Slowly, No Percussion Yet, Vocal Absent] [Verse 1, Full Band Enters, Clean Melodic Vocal, Calm Even as the Riffing Turns Technical and Aggressive] You bragged of every hunt, unequaled, unbending, You bragged the earth was yours, unrivaled, unending. I measured every step, patient, unhurried, I gathered every thought, silent, unworried. Pride makes a giant blind to what's beneath him, Pride never sees the small thing sent to teach him. [Chorus, Full Band, First Pass, Vocal Stays Clean and Level Under the Heaviest Riffing] PRIDE'S STING Comes from somewhere smaller than expecting, Comes from somewhere colder than protecting, PRIDE'S STING Never in the beast. Always in the boasting. [Verse 2, Blast Beats Enter Here, Vocal Still Calm and Unhurried, Deliberate Mismatch] I moved through shadow, calm and collected, I found the moment that you'd never expected. One motion, quiet, precisely delivered, One moment, and every legend shivered. You called yourself immortal in your story, I ended it. That's all there is to glory. [Chorus, Same Words, Same Calm Vocal, Instrumental at Its Most Violent] PRIDE'S STING Comes from somewhere smaller than expecting, Comes from somewhere colder than protecting, PRIDE'S STING Never in the beast. Always in the boasting. [Bridge, Hushed, Nearly Whispered, Instruments Thin Almost to Silence] "They'll hang us both as lights, never together." "They'll call us both eternal, tethered to forever." I don't share your sky. I only share your ending. We rise the same night, worlds apart, never blending. [Instrumental, Tension Building Back to Full Technical Weight] [Verse 3, After the Instrumental, Full Weight Returns, Vocal Still Calm] I feel my body harden into burning, I feel the small thing all the sky is learning. They named it glory: granted and undying, I named it distance: constant, never lying. I'll hang here nightly, small, and unforgiven, A warning pinned to every sky that's given. [Final Chorus, One Word Moves, Vocal Still Perfectly Calm] PRIDE'S THE THING That climbs the ledge and never notices, That laughs at warning, calls it promises, PRIDE'S THE THING That outlived every hunter, and it teaches. [Outro, Guitar Fading to a Single Ringing Note, Vocal Barely Above a Whisper] (barely audible, spoken) "They put us both in the sky. Just never on the same night. Probably for the best."
