Acoustics: Raw spoken intro/outro, driving 104 BPM bluegrass grit, banjo rolls, Martin acoustic guitar, upright bass, resonator slide, and soaring male-female duet harmonies (5:02). Produced with Song Writer Pro. Address in bio. [The Stale Waste] [ Short Intro - 4 bars: Male Vocals ] ...Look at the dust... we burned the maps and the medicine long before the sky ever turned. [ Verse 1: Intimate Vulnerable Male Vocals ] The glass vials shattered on the cold sterile tiles A fevered crowd burning all the patient files They set the medicine and the logic on fire And watched the smoke climbing up the village spire [ Pre-Chorus 1: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The world is tilting toward the burning sun The ending of the age has just begun [ Chorus 1: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] When the logic dies and every map is torn A desperate kind of faith is newly born Only iron laws and the heat of desert stone Leave the broken soul to walk away alone [ Verse 2: Intimate Emotional Female Vocals ] They cast the metal minds into the ocean deep And banished every ghost that would never sleep Now all the silicon is buried in the mud Paid for by the river of the human blood [ Pre-Chorus 2: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The world is tilting toward the burning sun The ending of the age has just begun [ Chorus 2: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] When the logic dies and every map is torn A desperate kind of faith is newly born Only iron laws and the heat of desert stone Leave the broken soul to walk away alone [Instrumental Break - Fingerpicked Acoustic Guitar Solo] [ Bridge 1: Dry Duet Vocals, Crisp Piano, Tight Rhythm ] She wears the crusty robes and the sun toasted skin A heartless shadow where the hope is getting thin With a tattered hat and a salty grain of sand She claims the wreckage of this hollowed out land [ Verse 3: Intimate Vulnerable Male Vocals ] The heavy clouds are weeping with a poison rain A twenty degree spike brings the killing pain Nuclear debris is drifting through the trees While a million people fall upon their knees [ Pre-Chorus 3: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The world is tilting toward the burning sun The ending of the age has just begun [ Chorus 3: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] When the logic dies and every map is torn A desperate kind of faith is newly born Only iron laws and the heat of desert stone Leave the broken soul to walk away alone [ Bridge 2: Dry Duet Vocals, Crisp Piano, Tight Rhythm ] Standing in the stagnant and the toxic breeze Watching as the planet falls to its disease She reflects upon the vanity and human sin Waiting for the final holy war to begin [ Verse 4: Intimate Emotional Female Vocals ] She hunts the shifting dunes for a weathered leather book With a cold authority and a hollow look The Bible is the weapon that she carries today To lead the hungry spirits on their dusty way [ Pre-Chorus 4: Building Emotional Tension, Passionate Female Vocals ] The world is tilting toward the burning sun The ending of the age has just begun [ Final Chorus: Upfront Duet, Clear Tight Vocal Harmonies ] When the logic dies and every map is torn A desperate kind of faith is newly born The artifact is found and the fires rise Underneath the weight of these heavy skies [ Outro: Upfront Dry Duet, Fading Emotional Resonance ] Walking through the grey and heavy ash Waiting for the thunder and the final crash Just a heavy silence in the middle of the night Underneath a heaven that is losing its light [Female spoken Dialogue with quiet reflective warmth] ...The air is finally still... maybe the storms are done for a little while.
