Dau of the Mad Star [DOMS: ACT: 4 SONG: TBD]

[INTRO — VOID ADDRESS] [INSTRUMENTATION: Near-silence. Low sub-drone fades in slowly, almost imperceptible. No rhythm. Occasional glassy harmonic shimmer.] [SHEOGORATH — male baritone, close-mic, calm, intimate, coaxing] You finally glimpse it, Bearing Dau down? That whisper delusion, Creeps into your rest, Mother, father, brother, Char fate, tine-thing, By what under-stands your whole world! [SECTION I — EROSION OF LINEAGE] [INSTRUMENTATION: Low sustained strings enter, gently bending pitch downward over time.] [SHEOGORATH — unhurried, explanatory] Feels lighter the longer, The generation stone ground, Grind down to pebble, To grit, to just scrape-scuttle sound! [SECTION II — FALSE GENEALOGY] [INSTRUMENTATION: A faint doubled harmonic appears, slightly detuned.] [SHEOGORATH — faint amusement, dismissive warmth] Farahi! Father of such non-descript feature, Kin-twin! Whose name's mere deflect off your own, Mommy! Hasamsi Shame teacher, who birthed you, razed you. [SECTION III — CLAIM OF AUTHORITY] [INSTRUMENTATION: Drone thickens subtly. A low pulse almost suggests a heartbeat, but never resolves into rhythm.] [SHEOGORATH — intimate, confessional] Oh, ash-child! Permit me restore a truth long-since taken, False-Hasamsi, False-Masiashi, False-Farahi! [SECTION IV — RECONSTRUCTION OF THE PAST] [INSTRUMENTATION: Soft bowed vibraphone or glass harmonic punctuates phrase endings.] [SHEOGORATH — precise, surgical diction] Each faithful fact-sim, familiar stitch ins, Conjured was mater, of existent dread, Insinuate father, of duty-play pretend, Brother, who was you, given a place Allowed you the mis-chance, sight mirror-caste face. [SECTION V — PITY AS MOTIVE] [INSTRUMENTATION: Low breath sounds or bass woodwind textures swell beneath lines.] [SHEOGORATH — almost tender] Scared ewe in darkness, on rot para-dox fed, I Pitied your waiting, I Saw kindred mince mind, I Decided at once then, Aye, that Dau would be mine. [SECTION VI — AUTHORSHIP DECLARED] [INSTRUMENTATION: Drone briefly drops out, leaving voice exposed, then returns heavier.] [SHEOGORATH — assured, possessive] And filled out what was when, as lost all your wrest. Hollow prints fading, Un-lines un-set, Untethered as ever--, from tribe-hard--, tripartite-- test. [SECTION VII — DEFINITION OF “DAU”] [INSTRUMENTATION: A soft harmonic triad blooms, unresolved.] [SHEOGORATH — almost affectionate] Dau as in daughter, Dau as in two, Dau as in me, as I am to you... [SECTION VIII — ECSTATIC CLAIM] [INSTRUMENTATION: Slight rise in harmonic density; no increase in tempo.] [SHEOGORATH — reveling, lyrical] What ruse, what farce, what masks we have worn! Dau how I love you! How I savor each form! Of shade is off-cast you, Bearing star doom, Chaos abstracted, born of my womb! [SECTION IX — IDENTITY DOUBT] [INSTRUMENTATION: Detuned toy-piano or harpsichord accent appears once, then vanishes.] [SHEOGORATH — teasing, knowing] You must have wondered Dau-ter, Who of you two was true, Ashima, ma-see-ah, was he or was you? [SECTION X — RELATIVISM OF TRUTH] [INSTRUMENTATION: Harmonics drift laterally in stereo field.] [SHEOGORATH — cool, dismissive of sentiment] Lies as easily rhyme, Truth cares not for beauty, Nor surety of stride! Cares only for presence, Mortal, abstract, divine, Matters not either, Nor if tethers to space or to time, [SECTION XI — COSMIC FRAME] [INSTRUMENTATION: Low brass or reed enters quietly, sustained.] [SHEOGORATH — declarative] Dau of the Mad Star! Who returns to the fold! To crucible forged her, Where first phrased your role! Vivec! A city! A god! A fool! [SECTION XII — FINAL INSTRUCTION] [INSTRUMENTATION: All elements pull back slightly, leaving voice dominant.] [SHEOGORATH — calm, inevitable] Ashimasi! Why becomes you? To bear, to bide, to rule? Bear Dau, as meaning, Conduct its course, Hurl it as I did, Welcome home child... [OUTRO — FALSE RESOLUTION] [INSTRUMENTATION: Drone resolves downward into a warm, static chord. No cadence. No release.] [FX: Breath. Silence held slightly too long.]