[genre: romani industrial forge-step] [mood: masochistic discipline, fire-lit trance] [dynamics: slow crush to sudden spark violence] [instruments: hammered cimbalom, anvil808, throat-drone, bare-knuckle hits, low male choir] [tempo: 95 half-time] [Shar vocal-style: smoke-ravaged possessive masochist] [verse 1] [music: anvil pulse alone, distant caravan creak] [Shar vocals: pleading, cracked] still soft spine under moon-anvil glow still raw bar shaking in the coals still tasting tomorrow’s scar still ducking the first phral swing still begging the night to fold me slow [pre-chorus] [music: texture drops to throat-drone and single spark] [Shar vocals: whispered zeugma] sparks kiss-iron, kiss-blood, kiss-bone quench comes only when hammer moans hit me true [chorus 1] [music: full choir entry, 808-anvil crush] [Shar vocals: snarling direct address] hit me true, čang on čang fold me harder, bahtalo šarko never lift the hammer from my back phral, swing till the red wheel sings never lift the hammer, let it bite bahtalo šarko, bahtalo šarko [verse 2] [music: plosive snare hits on split knuckles] [Shar vocals: chain escalation] blood oils the fold that makes me sharp sharp remembers every fist that missed missed means nasvalo, means džungalo scar scar drinks plum brandy, laughs, demands more [chorus 2] [music: brighter vowels, rising heat] [Shar vocals: epizeuxis mania] hit me true, hit me true, hit me true fold me harder till the moon goes blind never lift the hammer from my mouth phral, slam till my spine learns the song never lift the hammer, let it live bahtalo šarko, bahtalo šarko [bridge] [music: sudden softness, solo voice over distant fire] [Shar vocals: hypophora, intimate terror] what if the quench never comes what if the night keeps the fire what if the edge stays hungry what if the hammer grows tired first tired means I stay soft forever soft means Luludji’s Lament on my tongue so swing, rom baro, swing fold me harder than Manfri ever took [final chorus] [music: maximum texture, register leap] [Shar vocals: ecstatic, falsetto cracks] hit me true, hit me true, hit me true fold me harder, let the bellows roar never lift the hammer, let it stay phral, bite till the caravan burns down never lift the hammer, I am the blade bahtalo šarko, bahtalo šarko [coda] [music: single anvil strike into silence] [Shar vocals: exhausted whisper] hammer falls bahtalo
