[Intro – heavy marching percussion and dark atmospheric pads building tension, faint choral whispers of the dead] Verse 1 [Ominous undead male voice, deep and commanding over heavy percussion and dark pads] They came at dawn with golden fire and hymns upon their breath Thinking light would burn the shadow and return us all to death We met them at the broken ridge where the old stones still stand The living and the veil-touched, blade to blade and hand to hand I feel no fear, no racing heart — only cold and steady will The dead move with me like a tide that death itself cannot still They scream their holy names and raise their banners to the sky While we answer with the silence of the ones who chose to die Chorus [Ominous undead male voice with layered choral voices of the dead marching behind him] Dawn’s edge burns And the veil is torn in two Dawn’s edge burns We are many, they are few They fight for light that blinds them We fight because we must At dawn’s edge something ancient wakes And turns their gold to dust Verse 2 [Ominous undead male voice, heavier with growing intensity] I watch a living brother fall and feel the old ache rise Another soul I could not save beneath these empty skies But even as he drops the dead reach out and pull him near And in their arms he finds a place where he no longer has to fear The Solara lines begin to break, their hymns turn into screams They see the faces of the fallen walking through their dreams I raise my blade and call the names of every soul I lead And feel them answer in my blood like roots beneath a seed Chorus [Ominous undead male voice with layered choral voices of the dead marching behind him] Dawn’s edge burns And the veil is torn in two Dawn’s edge burns We are many, they are few They fight for light that blinds them We fight because we must At dawn’s edge something ancient wakes And turns their gold to dust Bridge [Ominous undead male voice, more intimate yet still commanding with layered dead voices responding] [Layered voices] We are with you… We do not break… We remember… [His voice] Then stand with me Until the last of them awakes. Final Chorus [Ominous undead male voice, powerful and resonant with full choral layers and intense percussion] Dawn’s edge burns And the veil is torn in two Dawn’s edge burns We are many, they are few They came to purge the shadow But the shadow learned to fight At dawn’s edge we remember What it means to own the night [Outro – heavy percussion fading with distant choral echoes and a single clear undead voice saying “We do not break…”]
