[Intro — sparse guitar, ]
[Verse 1 — low clean vocal]
Unhurried, turning, carried ever on,
Our captive flesh contends with blackened air.
The lunar frost constricts the mortal lungs.
From eastern skies, the morn unfurls its wings,
And leaves but bareness.
[Pre-Chorus — rising tension]
We are the last—
Alive, mere crumbs of some galactic wreck.
[Chorus — broad clean vocal; growled last line]
The oldest light arrives and arrives;
Goes on, and on;
Keeps coming—still the same.
But mortality will not relent.
[Verse 2 — harsh vocal]
Before the sun attains its destined height,
A star erupted; sundered fragments burned,
And breathed into the cold its inward fire.
No dawn arose to grace the fields;
The flame consumed the distant worlds;
Its wake extinguished every final gleam.
[Pre-Chorus — rising tension]
We are the last—
Alive, mere crumbs of some galactic wreck.
[Chorus — broad clean vocal; growled last line]
The oldest light arrives and arrives;
Goes on, and on;
Keeps coming—still the same.
But mortality will not relent.
[Bridge — growled]
A broken signal gnaws beneath the skin;
The skull becomes a hive of grinding noise.
But mortality—
Will not relent.
[Instrumental break — sustained guitar
[Verse 3 — rising intensity]
The plastic hearts emit a measured beat,
Their throbbing pulses feed the starless void.
In coded faults the plague of God took form,
Its errors etched across the human race,
And granted reason no command of thought.
[Final Chorus — layered vocals; pauses between phrases]
The oldest light—
It still arrives.
Unchanged.
But mortality will not relent.
[Outro — drums fall silent; fading to a whisper]
The oldest light arrives, and still arrives;
Goes on, and on—
Unchanged.