[Full gang vocal. Floor-tom avalanche. Distorted piano stab on “AVALANCHE.” Backup screams in the holes.] Hand gettin’ heavy -Scrch!- Cracks in the levee -Crch!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! [Verse 2] [Cleaner midrange vocal, almost spoken. fire crackle under the mix. A single Buster-steel scrape as percussion.] [Em] Had it all figured out, and man was it a bore [C] A universe of doubt now seemed like such a chore [G] Take a care what you desire—play with truth, play in fire [D] Try to kill the pain, blondie—now you’d be insane That’s what the old man meant when it’s all hopeless and bent Chasin’ wind and strikin’ stones—gettin’ home you find your bones Nibelheim still smolders in a borrowed set of eyes Zack in the rain at the edge of the Midgar rise [Em] Cells in the marrow, Reunion in the blood [C] A puppet learns the strings and calls the hunger “love” [G] Banora apples rot where honor used to grow [D] Degradation hums—every hero’s just a ghost on loan Angeal’s wing, Genesis’ verse, a SOLDIER built to break Cloud wears a dead man’s dream and prays it isn’t fake White materia sleepin’ in a flower-girl’s hand Holy in the water—will the Planet understand? [Chorus] Hand gettin’ heavy -Scrch!- Cracks in the levee -Crch!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! So a world is just what dreams were had To a fuckin’ few who then seemed mad (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for da AVALANCHE! [Outro] -The Planet keeps the names- -The stream don’t forget- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for da AVALANCHE! [Outro] -The Planet keeps the names- -The stream don’t forget- [Drums open. Choir swells like Lifestream surfacing through grate-steam.] Save it—now it’s eruptin’ Stop—go back—you gotta do somethin’ We’re fucked, stranded, sucked up in a mako rain Crashin’ out in a burning plane Get up off your ass—time to act long past Stop tryin’ to stack, it’s time to attack Fuckin’ pull the trigger—start small, get bigger Mama don’t care -Weapon risin’!- She got a million to spare [Chorus] [Full gang vocal. Floor-tom avalanche. Distorted piano stab on “AVALANCHE.” Backup screams in the holes.] Hand gettin’ heavy -Scrch!- Cracks in the levee -Crch!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! [Verse 2] [Cleaner midrange vocal, almost spoken. fire crackle under the mix. A single Buster-steel scrape as percussion.] [Em] Had it all figured out, and man was it a bore [C] A universe of doubt now seemed like such a chore [G] Take a care what you desire—play with truth, play in fire [D] Try to kill the pain, blondie—now you’d be insane That’s what the old man meant when it’s all hopeless and bent Chasin’ wind and strikin’ stones—gettin’ home you find your bones Nibelheim still smolders in a borrowed set of eyes Zack in the rain at the edge of the Midgar rise [Em] Cells in the marrow, Reunion in the blood [C] A puppet learns the strings and calls the hunger “love” [G] Banora apples rot where honor used to grow [D] Degradation hums—every hero’s just a ghost on loan Angeal’s wing, Genesis’ verse, a SOLDIER built to break Cloud wears a dead man’s dream and prays it isn’t fake White materia sleepin’ in a flower-girl’s hand Holy in the water—will the Planet understand? [Chorus] Hand gettin’ heavy -Scrch!- Cracks in the levee -Crch!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! [Bridge] [Breakdown. Drop to kick + reactor thrum. Choir splits: one side lament, chant. string cluster. Then sudden wide stereo.] The thing to come is what’s always been A ghostly parade of where and when A song sung now is a tale tomorrow A story then becomes a soul to borrow Sister Ray aimed at the scar in the north Cid lights a rocket just to spit the heavens off Wutai keeps a blade for a war they already lost Cosmo Canyon kneels and counts what the green has cost Gi in the canyon singin’ songs that hate the stream Hand gettin’ heavy -Scrch!- Cracks in the levee -Crch!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! [Verse 2] [Cleaner midrange vocal, almost spoken. fire crackle under the mix. A single Buster-steel scrape as percussion.] [Em] Had it all figured out, and man was it a bore [C] A universe of doubt now seemed like such a chore [G] Take a care what you desire—play with truth, play in fire [D] Try to kill the pain, blondie—now you’d be insane That’s what the old man meant when it’s all hopeless and bent Chasin’ wind and strikin’ stones—gettin’ home you find your bones Nibelheim still smolders in a borrowed set of eyes Zack in the rain at the edge of the Midgar rise [Em] Cells in the marrow, Reunion in the blood [C] A puppet learns the strings and calls the hunger “love” [G] Banora apples rot where honor used to grow [D] Degradation hums—every hero’s just a ghost on loan Angeal’s wing, Genesis’ verse, a SOLDIER built to break Cloud wears a dead man’s dream and prays it isn’t fake White materia sleepin’ in a flower-girl’s hand Holy in the water—will the Planet understand? [Chorus] Hand gettin’ heavy -Scrch!- Cracks in the levee -Crch!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) Ready for AVALANCHE! [Bridge] [Breakdown. Drop to kick + reactor thrum. Choir splits: one side lament, chant. string cluster. Then sudden wide stereo.] The thing to come is what’s always been A ghostly parade of where and when A song sung now is a tale tomorrow A story then becomes a soul to borrow -Whispers at the rails—fate wearin’ a hood- -Stamp in the gutter where a child once stood- Geostigma rain on a city that won’t kneel Kadaj wants a Mother the Planet won’t heal Deepground under Midgar, Tsviets in the dark Omega in the mantle, Chaos for a heart Vincent in the coffin with a scientist’s sin Lucrecia’s lullaby still pullin’ him in Sister Ray aimed at the scar in the north Cid lights a rocket just to spit the heavens off Wutai keeps a blade for a war they already lost Cosmo Canyon kneels and counts what the green has cost Gi in the canyon singin’ songs that hate the stream Remnants in the church still chasin’ Aerith’s dream [build] Weapon in the water—Ruby, Emerald, bone Planet throws her children when you mine her for a throne Pull the Black from the Temple, watch the sky come down If Holy doesn’t answer, then we burn this whole town [Final Chorus / Stomp] [Double gang. All previous SFX stacked. Last refrain slams to half-time then detonates.] Hand gettin’ heavy -Scrch!- Cracks in the levee -Crch!- (Ready for AVALANCHE!) (I) Feel it buildin’ Green in the ceilin’ Dreams they dyin’ -Mako!- Lifestream cryin’ -Psycho!-
0/500