The Eternal Quest

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[Intro - Palm-muted gallop riff, building, tom fills]

[Verse 1 - Male Vocal, Baritone, Driving]
We came back from the Bleak Horizon older than the stone
Eight thousand years of dust still shaking loose inside our bones
The Watcher's cage is empty and the Watcher's name is dead
But something climbed out after him and wears his crown instead

We paid in Gip and Ren, we paid in years and blood
We spent the sun god's water and we swore that it was enough
Aldrick's arm still clicks like a coffin lid at night
Zerus drinks the morning down and swears that he's still fit to fight

[Pre-Chorus - Build, drums doubling]
Vrogonn's got a book he will not read out loud
There's a name inside it he will not say out loud
Every answer opens up another bolted door
Kill a god and learn the hardest truth — there's always one more

[Chorus - Gang Vocals, Full Power]
THE ETERNAL QUEST — no crown, no rest, no end
THE ETERNAL QUEST — we win and it begins again
The truth is just a door that opens on a door of stone
I fear this is a quest we'll never finish
And we're never going home

[Verse 2 - Baritone, Grim]
The ranger reads the trail and every trail runs underground
The wizard burns his memory for words that make no sound
Neera says she's free now but she watches every door
Twenty cats marched out of Catmoore, nine came back from that war

We are not the men who started, we are what the road has left
Sharpened down to nothing but the purpose in our chest
Ask us why we do it and there's no good answer why
The horizon keeps on moving — and the moving is the why

[Pre-Chorus - Build]
Vrogonn's got a book he will not read out loud
There's a name inside it he will not say out loud
Every answer opens up another bolted door
Kill a god and learn the hardest truth — there's always one more

[Chorus - Gang Vocals, Full Power]
THE ETERNAL QUEST — no crown, no rest, no end
THE ETERNAL QUEST — we win and it begins again
The truth is just a door that opens on a door of stone
I fear this is a quest we'll never finish
And we're never going home

[Instrumental - Extended dual guitar solo, harmonized, 30 seconds]

[Bridge - Half time, heavy, menacing]
We thought the end was one more mile
We thought the last god was the last
Every ending is a hinge
And every hinge swings on the past

[Build - Shouted and Chanted, accelerating]
No crown!
No rest!
No end!
Roll again!
No crown!
No rest!
No end!
ROLL AGAIN!

[Final Chorus - Maximum intensity, full gang vocals]
THE ETERNAL QUEST — no crown, no rest, no end
THE ETERNAL QUEST — we win and it begins again
The truth is just a door that opens on a door of stone
We can't finish it, we'll never finish it
WE'LL WALK IT TILL WE'RE BONE

Let the road run on forever, we were never going home
The quest is not the ending
The quest is all we own

[Outro - Riff decaying, feedback, single sustained note]

[End]

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