[Movement I, The Push, Present Tense, Tight Mechanical Riffing Locked to a Driving Pulse] My shoulder braces, unrelenting The granite answers, unrepenting Each grain of dust I've memorized Each crack a scar I've mythologized The hill repeats what my legs have learned Every step relearning what's already burned I've named this weight in half a hundred fashions Before the names, I still had human passions [Chorus, Heavy and Grounded, First Pass] ONE MORE STEP FOREVER Every summit just a new beginning Every muscle worn from winning Somewhere far away, fate's grinning ONE MORE STEP FOREVER Never nearer, never thinning [Movement II, The Memory, Music Pulls Back to a Narrower, More Melodic Register] I bound the god of death, my finest treason Let mortal life outlast its given season I begged the queen of shadows for a reason To cross once more before my final season I promised Persephone I would return Then spurned that promise, glad to yearn I lived my fill before the reckoning Hermes dragged me down, unbeckoning [Chorus, Same Words, Now Carrying the Weight of What Just Happened] ONE MORE STEP FOREVER Every summit just a new beginning Every muscle worn from winning Somewhere far away, fate's grinning ONE MORE STEP FOREVER Never nearer, never thinning [Movement III, The Ascent, Guitar Opens Into Layered Synth and Clean Arpeggios, Vocal Turns Soaring] If the stars can climb without arriving Then my climbing is its own surviving The tide is never promised a horizon I was never promised a decision If time itself repeats its own beginning Then I am only time, forever spinning I am not pushing something bound to plummet I have become the mountain and the summit [Controlled Instrumental Passage, Ascent's Peak, Guitar and Synth Interlocking, Not Indulgent] [Chorus, Same Words, Now Almost Willing] ONE MORE STEP FOREVER Every summit just a new beginning Every muscle worn from winning Somewhere far away, fate's grinning ONE MORE STEP FOREVER Never nearer, never thinning [Movement IV, The Fall, Sudden Drop Back to the Mechanical Push] One breath at the peak Then gravity speaks The boulder remembers the hill And so, again, will I [Final Chorus, One Word Moves] ONE MORE STEP, HOWEVER Every summit just a new beginning Every muscle worn from winning Somewhere far away, fate's grinning ONE MORE STEP, HOWEVER Never nearer, never thinning [Loop, Music and Lyric Return Exactly to the Opening, Fading Mid-Phrase Rather Than Resolving] My shoulder braces, unrelenting The granite answers, unre—
