[Intro: Analog Acoustic Folk] (Strummed acoustic guitar, heavy floor tom beat) (Clean, low male chanting) In the boiling dark, where the engines weep. In the Boiler Shafts, where the dead men sleep. Stone and flesh, bound by the chain. A shared century of soot and pain. [Verse 1: Building Progressive Metal] (Distorted guitars enter, matching the acoustic melody) (Female clean vocals, reverbed) The screen flickers green, a hundred years old A story of fire that the Spire never told I see the Sapiens hands on the scorching wheel I see the Dwarven shoulders bracing the steel They sealed the doors, left them all to burn But the dirt always finds a way to return. [Pre-Chorus: Tempo Accelerates, Blast Beats Begin] (Harsh screams) Blood on the parchment! Mud on the floor! The first integrated strike in a corporate war! My mother said hide it, she called it a glitch But my blood is the spark in the Aethelgard ditch! [Chorus: Massive Triumphant Blackgaze] (Wall of sound, shimmering tremolo guitars, epic atmosphere) (Soaring clean vocals overlaying harsh screams) Echoes of the Mud Pacts ringing in my veins! We are not the broken, we are the ones who break the chains! An offense against the stone is an offense against the flesh! Tear away the shame and let the timeline start afresh! I am the descendant! I am the living breath! The hybrid evolution rising from the depths of death! [Outro: Fading Acoustic and Tremolo Picking] We stop dying in the dark. We take the sky.
