Generals call

(INTRO)

(Sound FX: A heavy iron chain dragging slowly across wet concrete. Schhh-clank... Schhh-clank...)

(Music: A single, deep bass drum beats like a slow, dying heart. Low, grinding cello strings swell in the background.)

(MALE WHISPER - Menacing, close to mic)

Tick.

Tock.

Rot.

(VERSE 1 - The General / Deep Vocals)

They looked at the cracks and they called us the waste

Said the clay was too jagged, a bitter taste

They wanted the perfect, the smooth, and the light

So they threw us deeply into the night.

But the cellar is cold, and the cellar is deep

And down in the darkness, the promises keep.

We gathered the broken, the addicted, the wrong...

(Drums stop. Silence for one beat.)

And we hammered the misery into a song.

(PRE-CHORUS - Building Intensity)

They tell you to sit. They tell you to wait.

Analyze the risk, calculate the fate.

Safe little sheep, grazing in the gray...

(Guitars screech in feedback)

I’ve got a fire that’s burning the map!

I’d rather be caught in the jaws of the trap!

Than sit here to rot in this holy silence!

Peace is a lie...

(Scream)

I’M LOOKING FOR VIOLENCE!

PART II: THE EXPLOSION (The Anthem)

(CHORUS A - The Vow)

(Music explodes. Heavy, distorted guitars and massive war drums.)

FILL THE FETTERS! (Group Shout)

Bind the wolf with the iron band!

RAISE THE SHIELD! (Group Shout)

With the mark of the Webbed Hand!

We are the Stone that the Builders refused!

We are the weapon that God has used!

Catena Non Marcum—The Chain will not break!

We stand on the Wall for the innocent's sake!

(VERSE 2 - The Rebel / Aggressive Vocals)

(Music drops to a driving, aggressive bass groove)

Helel, my eternal brother!

Only two souls to be in the abyss beyond our father's hell!

We’re eternally bound together, my Morning Star struck!

Helel, brother, you watched as I took the fall for all.

We didn't come down here to do nothing at all!

The Void was too quiet.

The pre-life was still, the after-life is hell!

I needed the friction! I needed the kill of my devil's thrill!

The pain is the proof that I’m alive.

You learn from the blood! You learn from the scars!

You never learn nothing from watching our Binary Stars!

PART III: THE CRUSADE (The Fire Horse)

(BRIDGE - The Acceleration)

(Tempo speeds up. "Fire Horse" energy. Double-bass drumming.)

From the Pecos canyons to the Columbia stone

The Spirits are watching, we are not alone!

The Rayed Head rises, the Light Body burns

The wheel of the century grinds and it turns!

We saw the Moon bleed in the year Thirty-Three

We know what it costs to set a soul free!

(CHORUS B - The Synthesis)

(Full Intensity - Wall of Sound)

So I make the wrong choice! Yeah, I make it loud!

Better to burn in the fire, than rot in the clouds!

FILL THE FETTERS!

Get off the devil's fence! Tear it down!

RAISE THE SHIELD!

That Wrong turn, That Dead end is Taking me higher!

The Horse is on fire, the year is at hand!

There’s no more hiding in the safety of land!

To the deep water, where the Selkies dive

It’s the only place we come alive!