Seventy Kilometers of Nothing
[Intro: church organ drone, icy wind sounds, chorus-drenched bassline] (Seventy kilometers of ice... nowhere left to turn...) [Verse 1: Baritone Vocals, spoken word, deep, melancholic, low energy] I turned my back on the colony... turned my back on the sea... Werner Herzog's camera lens can't capture what is inside me... A lonely black dot crossing the infinite white space... Walking towards the mountains... leaving the human race... [Pre-Chorus: rising bassline, filter sweep, rhythmic drum machine] No food upon the peak... no love at the end of the line... Just the cold elegance of the mountain's grand design... The others huddle together in terror of the dark... I EMBRACE THE ABYSS AND LEAVE A LONELY MARK! [Chorus: explosive release, full band, weeping synth pads, wide stereo] [Male Baritone, anthemic, passionate delivery] I'm walking to the mountains... seventy kilometers of nothing! Left behind the burnout of the species... left the silly race... A nihilist penguin marching into outer space... I'm walking to the mountains... and I'm never coming back! [Verse 2: post-punk rhythm, driving bass, conversational delivery] L'Amour Toujours plays softly on an organ in the snow... The White House made a meme of me, but what do they really know? I'm not crazy... I just understood the game... When the system burns you out, you step outside the frame... Step by step across the frozen, empty plain... My silent walk is the only answer to the pain... [Bridge: sudden break, organ solo, heavy delay guitar] [Whisper] (Symphony of void... the cold embraces me...) (Seventy kilometers... the mountain sets me free...) [Guitar Solo: distorted electric guitar with chorus and heavy delay] [Chorus: maximum energy, soaring baritone, full band] I'm walking to the mountains... seventy kilometers of nothing! Left behind the burnout of the species... left the silly race... A nihilist penguin marching into outer space... I'm walking to the mountains... AND I'M NEVER COMING BACK! [Outro: fading church organ, footsteps on snow, echo delay] (Walking... walking... into the white...) [End]
