[Intro] Strike the iron. Strike the iron. Strike the iron. Strike the iron. [Verse I] The towers fallen, the roads erased No names remain in the ash and waste A wounded sky turns in its sleep While gray clouds churn and shadows creep The black beast stands where the cities died With open claws and a ruined pride The air remembers the final breath While everything else forgets its death! [Pre-Chorus] The head rises high to a sky without light The ancient bells toll for the end of the fight (Whispered, intimate) Nothing is left... ...not even the fire. [Chorus] THE DEAD BELLS RING! THE IRON TIDES COLLIDE! THE WORLD SHUDDERS UNDER THE BEAST'S WIDE STRIDE! Open the claw! Close the dark! Leave no memory! Leave no mark! Ash turns to shadow, shadow to dream Underneath the stars where the new worlds gleam! [Verse II] (Percussion strips back to a heavy, pounding floor tom beat and deep sub-bass) The sword crashes down and the dry earth splits An ancient fault where the darkness sits Older than memory, deeper than stone The monster wakes on its iron throne Varuna’s gift for a second chance— The light takes pity on the final dance The world shudders once... and understands It slips away through the beast's black hands. [Chorus] THE DEAD BELLS RING! THE IRON TIDES COLLIDE! THE WORLD SHUDDERS UNDER THE BEAST'S WIDE STRIDE! Open the claw! Close the dark! Leave no memory! Leave no mark! Ash turns to shadow, shadow to dream Underneath the stars where the new worlds gleam! [Bridge] The claws close around the silence... Around the end... Around the final breath... (Low male staccato chant builds rapidly, speeding up) The dead world vanished. The dead world vanished. Ash became shadow. Shadow became dream. (Soprano choir swells upward into a cinematic peak) THE DREAM BECAME OUR WORLD! [Outro] Beneath now familiar stars— The beast no longer stands alone! (Staccato Chant): The new bells ring! (Choral Echo): His new bells ring! (Staccato Chant): The new bells ring! (Choral Echo): His new bells ring! (Staccato Chant): The new bells ring! (Choral Echo): His new bells ring! (Full Chorus / Chanting together): THE NEW BELLS RING! HIS NEW BELLS RING!
