Was an answer ever owed?

Metal, Dark Melodic Metal, Progressive Doom Metal

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[Intro | carry over the previous string tone | sparse piano | restrained tenor]
Was an answer ever owed?

[Leave space | one low guitar note]

[Verse 1 | measured low growl | no drums]
The jaw grows tight around a why
The tongue keeps searching for a cause
A thousand names for what occurs
And still the need beneath them gnaws

A reason offered, turned, inspected
Another question underneath
How far must explanation travel
Before the teeth release?

[Chorus | clear sorrowful tenor | piano and low strings]
Was an answer ever owed?
Was a promise ever made?
Does the need to know a reason
Give the need a claim?
Was an answer ever owed?

[Verse 2 | low growl | isolated guitar notes | widely spaced drum strikes]
The facts arrive without instructions
Desire supplies the missing terms
A pattern takes the shape of purpose
The frightened body briefly learns

But what would count as explanation?
What could make the searching cease?
Would any truth survive inspection
If it failed to offer peace?

[Chorus | restrained tenor | remove percussion | thinner piano]
Was an answer ever owed?
Was a promise ever made?
Does the need to know a reason
Give the need a claim?
Was an answer ever owed?

[Instrumental | piano develops a fragment of the album’s opening melody]
[Low guitar answers once, then falls silent]
[Strings enter individually | phrases remain incomplete]
[Let the pauses lengthen | no swell]

[Bridge | close low growl | one sustained cello note]
A cause can show how something happened
And leave the wanting just as raw
What turns the ache for understanding
Into a universal law?

[Exposed tenor]
Must what is true
Be bearable?
Must what is true
Explain it all?

[Silence]

[Final Chorus | quiet tenor | occasional piano notes | no vocal doubles]
Was an answer ever owed?
Was a promise ever made?
Does the need to know a reason
Give the need a claim?
Was an answer ever owed?

[Outro | tenor almost unaccompanied]
And if the answer came,
Who would explain
The answer?

[Voice ends | piano falls silent]

[Strings alone | reprise the album’s opening melody]
[Preserve its recognizable contour | subtly alter the final interval]
[Thin to two exposed bowed notes]
[Withhold the expected resolution | let the bow sound decay naturally]

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[Intro | carry over the previous string tone | sparse piano | restrained tenor] Was an answer ever owed? [Leave space | one low guitar note] [Verse 1 | measured low growl | no drums] The jaw grows tight around a why The tongue keeps searching for a cause A thousand names for what occurs And still the need beneath them gnaws A reason offered, turned, inspected Another question underneath How far must explanation travel Before the teeth release? [Chorus | clear sorrowful tenor | piano and low strings] Was an answer ever owed? Was a promise ever made? Does the need to know a reason Give the need a claim? Was an answer ever owed? [Verse 2 | low growl | isolated guitar notes | widely spaced drum strikes] The facts arrive without instructions Desire supplies the missing terms A pattern takes the shape of purpose The frightened body briefly learns But what would count as explanation? What could make the searching cease? Would any truth survive inspection If it failed to offer peace? [Chorus | restrained tenor | remove percussion | thinner piano] Was an answer ever owed? Was a promise ever made? Does the need to know a reason Give the need a claim? Was an answer ever owed? [Instrumental | piano develops a fragment of the album’s opening melody] [Low guitar answers once, then falls silent] [Strings enter individually | phrases remain incomplete] [Let the pauses lengthen | no swell] [Bridge | close low growl | one sustained cello note] A cause can show how something happened And leave the wanting just as raw What turns the ache for understanding Into a universal law? [Exposed tenor] Must what is true Be bearable? Must what is true Explain it all? [Silence] [Final Chorus | quiet tenor | occasional piano notes | no vocal doubles] Was an answer ever owed? Was a promise ever made? Does the need to know a reason Give the need a claim? Was an answer ever owed? [Outro | tenor almost unaccompanied] And if the answer came, Who would explain The answer? [Voice ends | piano falls silent] [Strings alone | reprise the album’s opening melody] [Preserve its recognizable contour | subtly alter the final interval] [Thin to two exposed bowed notes] [Withhold the expected resolution | let the bow sound decay naturally]

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