[Instrumental Intro, massive fuzz guitar riff, heavy stomping beat] [Half-Chorus] No drums are beating for the ground we cleared, We found the terror that we always feared. [Instrumental Break, dirty heavy riffing] [Verse 1, driving mid-tempo groove] Down from the ridge with a chill in my bones, The frost on the heather, the wind in the stones. Smoke on the horizon, the thatch in a blaze, We ran from the terror of shortening days. [Chorus, huge cymbals and wailing vocal] No drums are beating for the ground we cleared, We found the terror that we always feared. The fire's out and the rain is cold, And this is all that the hills will hold. [Instrumental Interlude, thick bass and heavy drum stomp] [Verse 2] We hunted them down through the gully and fern, With nowhere to hide and nowhere to return. Then heaven broke open in thunder and hail, And drowned out the blood on the old border trail. [Chorus] No drums are beating for the ground we cleared, We found the terror that we always feared. The fire's out and the rain is cold, And this is all that the hills will hold. [Instrumental Solo, soaring blues guitar] [Bridge, building tension, sparse drums] There is no going back to the years we have known, To the peace that we built in the shadow of stone. Let the strength of the quiet flow back through my hands, When we turn from the gale that broke over these lands. [Verse 3, aggressive return to full heavy groove] We carried our dead through the drench of the dawn, Not a cheer in the ranks for the ground we had won. The price was too heavy, the sorrow too deep, While the rain beats a drum where the fallen now sleep. [Half-Volume Drop, stripped back, moody bass only] No drums are beating for the ground we cleared, We found the terror that we always feared... [Instrumental Build, exploding into massive final riff] [Chorus, max energy] No drums are beating for the ground we cleared, We found the terror that we always feared. The fire's out and the rain is cold, And this is all that the hills will hold. [Outro, heavy guitar chords ringing out to fade]
