[TITLE: RUNES BY FIRE] [INTRO — FIRE + DISTANT CHOIR] [SFX: fire crackling] [SFX: cold northern wind] [SFX: low ceremonial drums] [Whispered] Keep the flame alive... Keep the flame alive... [BACKGROUND CHANTS] (Higher...) (Higher...) (Ancient fire...) (Ancient fire...) [VERSE 1] Nordic runes glowing On the walls beside the fire Babylonian priests Singing songs to something higher Ash on their fingers Old names under the door I came in with nothing Now I wanna know more Wolf fur on the benches Copper hanging from the beams Smoke wrapped around us Like the shape of hidden dreams Salt lines near the entry Candles melting into gold Every shadow in the room Looked older than the cold Tibetan bells ringing Through the smoke and incense Desert prophets walking Forty nights relentless The old women humming With their hands against the flame Like they seen ten thousand faces But remembered every name [BACKGROUND WHISPERS] (Remember...) (Remember...) (Higher...) (Higher...) [PRE-CHORUS] From ice to desert dust From cedar to stone Every tongue still trembles When it hears the unknown Old words rise up From stone and bone One voice called home Before the dawn [CHOIR BUILD] Ohhhhhhhhh... Ahhhhhhhhh... Speak to me... Speak to me... [HOOK] Speak to me, higher Speak to me, higher Keep the flame alive Keep the flame alive Nordic runes glowing Babylonian choir Meet me in the fire Meet me in the fire [POST-HOOK CHANTS] (Higher...) (Higher...) (Keep the flame alive...) (Fire...) [VERSE 2] Copper bowls are ringing Through the smoke and olive air I saw sacred marks in linen Like they floating everywhere Kings and shepherds listening With their hands around the dark One small word can open What the cold locked in my heart Drums inside the distance Echo through the mountain pass Somewhere in the silence Felt like all the future passed Black ravens on the rooftops Watching every movement slow Like the sky itself was listening To the secrets down below Pharaoh kings sleeping Under pyramids of gold Ancestors still whisper Through the storms and through the cold One fire in the center Everybody gather near Different tribes and languages But everybody hear [BACKGROUND CHANTS] (One fire...) (One sky...) (One flame...) (One tribe...) [PRE-CHORUS] From ice to desert dust From cedar to stone Every tongue still trembles When it hears the unknown Every ritual got steps Every symbol got power Every empire chased eternity Inside the final hour [HOOK — BIGGER] Speak to me, higher Speak to me, higher Keep the flame alive Keep the flame alive Nordic runes glowing Babylonian choir Meet me in the fire Meet me in the fire [CHOIR LAYER] (Higher...) (Higher...) (Fire...) (Fire...) [BRIDGE — ATMOSPHERIC BREAKDOWN] [SFX: wind intensifies] [SFX: deep choir swell] I was all split in two North wind, east wind You pulled both ends together By the embered evening Now the old world leans in Now the silence sings One sky over many One fire over kings Tell me would you stay If the cold came in? Would you guard this flame Till the world breaks thin? I heard the hymns I saw the sparks Different tongues Same beating heart [BACKGROUND CHOIR] (Same beating heart...) (Same beating heart...) [VERSE 3] Temple smoke rising Through the holes inside the roof Children standing silent Like they waiting for the truth Ash upon my sleeve Salt buried in my hair I walked into the darkness And I found your spirit there The room was small The heat was high Your eyes held truth That money couldn’t buy Old men spoke in riddles Young ones stared at stars Everybody searching For the meaning of the scars Outside the snow was falling Inside the fire breathed Somewhere in the chanting I finally felt peace [FINAL HOOK — MASSIVE] Speak to me, higher Speak to me, higher Keep the flame alive Keep the flame alive Nordic runes glowing Babylonian choir Meet me in the fire Meet me in the fire Speak to me, higher Ancestors beside us One sky over many One sacred fire guide us [OUTRO] [Whispered] Keep the flame alive... Keep the flame alive... [SFX: crackling fire slowly fading] [SFX: distant northern wind]
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