For the Fire

(Intro – sparse, hesitant acoustic guitar arpeggios, very slow, minor key. Voice low and vulnerable, close to the mic) Verse 1 Wake from the silence, dry what remains Tonight we vanish, tonight we fade Close your eyes, don’t look behind Before the world wakes up and comes to claim what’s mine Verse 2 Take only the breathing, leave nothing loud Before their footsteps echo through the crowd Before the hell we know splits open wide And we become ashes with nowhere left to hide (Bridge 1 – still quiet, but a soft swell of strings or mellotron creeps in) Breathe… keep on breathing Don’t lose the courage now Breathe… keep on breathing I can’t do this without you somehow Verse 3 We run to the edge of everything we knew Where names don’t matter and no one follows through Tonight we turn into what no one understands A spark that disappears and takes the world in its hands (Bridge 2 – tension rises: subtle drums enter, clean guitar begins to distort) What if silence is the only way out? What if fire is the only thing left to hold? Don’t let go… don’t let go now Before the daylight kills us slow (Climax / Explosion – full band erupts: heavy fuzz bass, chaotic drums, walls of distorted guitars, Thom-like raw and desperate vocals. Everything feels like it’s breaking apart) Final Verse (repeated, growing louder and more unhinged) Wake from the silence… dry what remains… Tonight we vanish… tonight we fade… Tonight we vanish… tonight we fade… (Outro – distortion collapses into feedback, looping guitars and a lonely piano returning to the opening figure, fading into near-silence. Last line barely whispered) And now we are one… in what has no name.