The bleak horizon

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Lyrics

[Intro - Low mellotron drone, distant thunder, single guitar note sustaining]

[Verse 1 - Male, Baritone, Restrained]
Eight thousand years ago the gods went dark
Chained the Watcher in the void beyond the stars
The cats of Catmoore sent their twenty warriors out
Only nine came back and two of them died too

We carry what they carried, we walk where they walked
We know the names they whispered, we know the door they unlocked
Vrogonn read the pages no living man should read
The flask is in his satchel, and the flask is what we need

[Pre-Chorus - Building, drums entering]
Cosmic city first, then the pool of light
Where good men stand with good men's swords to guard it through the night
We will ask them once to let us pass
We will ask them twice, and then the die is cast

[Chorus - Full band, layered vocals, massive]
To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
Eight thousand years for every step we take
To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break

[Verse 2 - Baritone, grim]
Aldrick's still got a bone that clicks
Zerus drank the morning dry, he'll drink the evening too
The wizard knows the words, the ranger knows the way
Vrogonn knows the price, and none of us will say

We are not the heroes of the songs they sing at home
We are what the old gods left behind to finish what they'd sown
The Sol-light shines on good men, the Sol-light shines on us
But the flask fills once or never, and the Watcher ends or doesn't

[Pre-Chorus - Building higher]
Cosmic city first, then the pool of life
Where the followers of Sol will draw their blades in righteous strife
We will ask them once to let us pass
We will ask them twice, and then the die is cast

[Chorus - Fuller, choir entering]
To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
Eight thousand years for every step we take
To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break

[Instrumental - Heavy guitar solo, mellotron swells]

[Bridge - Slower, sparse, almost spoken]
What does it cost to kill a god?
A name you loved, a hand you had, a year, a decade, a thousand years
What does it cost to kill a god?
Every song you ever sang and every tear you never cried

The Watcher is watching, he's been watching all along
He watched us sail the golden ship, he watched us right this wrong
He is older than the horizon, older than the stars
But older than Zul is the pool, and the pool is ours

[Final Chorus - Full power, choir on every line, drums hammering]
To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
Eight thousand years for every step we take
To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
We will spend our lives for what our fathers could not break

To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
The flask is full, the cage will not hold
To the Bleak Horizon, to the Bleak Horizon
We go in young, we come out old

[Outro - Long slow fade, organ sustain, distant thunder returns]

[End]

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