The Well Below the Kingdom (Remix)

[Intro — orchestral strings, sub-bass pulse, breakbeat enters slow] [B minor, sweeping, no vocals, 8 bars] [Verse 1 — intimate, third person] I have been here Before the stones were laid Before the kingdom Had a name to wear They came to me at dawn With empty vessels I filled them Without asking What they'd carry me into I did not choose The hands that found The other well The darker water Running underneath [Verse 2 — breakbeat thickens, strings swell] First it was the miller Then the children Then the ones who keep The sacred records Rewrote the records And called it The same The laughter changed its pitch And what had been a kingdom Became a kingdom Of a different kind [Build — drums intensify, strings climb] Only one well Remained untouched Only one mouth Still remembered What water used to taste like [Verse 3 — intimate, almost whispered] He came to me On a night When the moon Asked no questions He knelt The way men kneel When they have exhausted Every other posture He did not ask If I was clean He already knew He was not asking About the water [Orchestral crescendo — no vocals, 8 bars] [Strings explode, breakbeat fractures, sub-bass drops] [Verse 4] I felt him choose Not the madness But the ending Of a particular loneliness There is a weight To being the last clear eye In a kingdom Of beautiful fog He drank [Final movement — full orchestra, deliberate, heavy] And the kingdom was complete [computer-vocoder accents] Every mouth Speaking the same strange tongue Every eye Seeing the same magnificent lie [computer-vocoder accents ends] And no one noticed the problem Because the problem Had become the weather Had become the ground Had become the word For normal [Breakdown] I did not poison them I only showed them What was already underneath They chose Which story To believe was water [Outro — sub-bass fades] I am still here Below the stones Below the word for thirst Waiting For the ones Who will remember That they are thirsty Still here Still...