[Duet: Witness male and Fire female] [Atmosphere: ancient furnace, metallic resonance] [Energy: restrained to apocalyptic] [Male baritone lead] [Soaring female harmony] [Intro | low strings | amplifier resonance | metallic impacts | female vocal sustain] [Witness] Don't get me started. [Verse 1 | Witness | processional drums | restrained baritone | distant female harmony] [Witness] We've always had a hungry gaze, Envious of the fortune favored, Soon we conquered fire, Ravaging her beloved secrets, Once our forges gave birth to bronze, The human race was doomed... [Refrain | Witness lead | Fire title line | widening guitars | controlled build] [Witness] We called our hunger mastery, And fed the forge what earth concealed; The hand that thought to govern fire Was first to learn it would not yield. [Fire] Don't get me started... [Verse 2 | Witness | heavier guitar pulse | rising female countermelody | low strings] [Witness] Now in this cycle entombed, Blind to each sunrise that dawns, Dishonest of all our regrets, We provoke each other's ire, Food is no longer savored, And we rebuild only to raze... [Refrain | Witness lead | Fire title line | stacked dual harmony | increased intensity] [Witness] We called our hunger mastery, And fed the forge what earth concealed; The hand that thought to govern fire Now bears a brand that will not heal. [Fire] Don't get me started... (I warned you before the first blade cooled) [Instrumental | descending baritone guitars | rising female vocal | metallic percussion | furnace swell] [Bridge | Fire | soaring female lead | exposed prophecy | orchestral tension | low male harmony] [Fire] [Intimate] Long ago, forgotten by time, Fire whispered, don't get me started, I will consume you, and all who follow, Your sons will wallow in death, [Defiant] Your daughters will beg for that sweet taste, I will laugh, and continue to grow... [Instrumental Build | low string ostinato | cymbal ascent | guitar feedback | sustained female lead] [Final Verse | Witness | Fire harmonies | full band | grave recognition] [Witness] Once all the world is ash, maybe we will know, The cost of our souls we sold in haste, The last man will know peace with his final breath, Once every metal and glass edifice is hollow, And the stain of humanity has departed, The world can rest in the rust, the moss, the rime... [Final Refrain | Both | interlocking dual leads | massive guitar wall | controlled release] [Witness] We gave her iron, glass, and oil, Then drew her through the earth in veins. [Fire] You gave me engines, wars, and wires; Now none who started me remain. [Witness] The hand that claimed the forge as throne Has left the furnace to its own. [Fire] You got me started. [Both] And I continue to grow... [Breakdown | drums receding | low strings exposed | guitar feedback contracting] [Outro | Witness lead | high female sustain | instruments receding | final resonance] [Witness] The world can rest at the edge of human time...
