[Intro - low cello, sparse dark piano, faint pulse] [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY - close and clear] We called thee Father through the years, through birth and burial, blood and tears. We gave the dark thy holy name, and waited still. No answer came. [Distant Male Choir Only] Silentium Dei... [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY] We heard thy prophets speak for thee. Thy priests declared what none could see. Kings wore thy blessing. Wars thy sign. But every voice was mortal thine. [Low bass enters] [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY - restrained] So speak now, if thou hast a word. No borrowed tongue shall now be heard. No book. No priest. No prophet's claim. Only thee, and only thy name. [Long pause] [One distant bell] [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY] No thunder stirred. No veil was torn. No voice arose before the morn. The candles sank. The shadows grew. The silence stayed as silence knew. [Distant Male Choir Only - very soft] Silentium... [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY] We called thee Mercy. Silence still. We called thee Love. No answering will. We called thee Judge. The chamber bare. We called thee God— and waited there. [Instrumental - cello and piano only] [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY - very close] If hidden still when called by name, what separates thy voice from flame, from wind, from grief, from mortal fear— from all we feel when none is here? [Music nearly disappears] [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY] One final time, without disguise: no sacred smoke, no borrowed eyes. If thou art there, then answer prayer. [Long silence] [MALE SOLO LEAD ONLY - softly] The throne stands high. The chamber bare. We called thy name. [Pause] And none was there. [One low cello note] [Distant Male Choir Only] Silentium Dei. [Silence]
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