Ashfall

[Intro: Silence, lone piano, wind scattering ashes.] [Verse 1: Soprano, clean and sad.] The emerald paradise burned bright, Reduced to ash, but roots survive. Through embers reaches out the light, That’s how our new day will arrive. We walked through sticky fear and lies, Burned bridges, lost the weeping skies. But deep inside each beating chest, The ancient whisper finds its rest. [Chorus: Full choir, majestic, solemn.] Eden fell, but the Earth still sings, Through blood and steel the green grass springs. We are gone, but the light remains, In each spore – our endless chains. Seek no sinners in the silent air, All is tangled in the flare. Leaf falls down, but new will grow, The circle turns, time lets it go. [Verse 2: Baritone (Kyle's or Father's voice).] You called us plague, you called us flame, We became your cleansing rain. We fell to give the new roots birth, From your cold steel – the greening earth. Our fathers' sins in ash and dust, But Mother Earth knows no mistrust. She grows her new and timeless glade, Where every atom is life's trade. [Chorus 2: Full choir, louder.] Eden fell, but the Earth still sings, Through ash and timeless death it springs. We are gone, we leave the light, In each spore – your final rite. Seek no answers in the empty void, All is born and all destroyed. Leaf falls down, but grows again, The wind's song will never end! [Bridge: Music fades, female a cappella.] I remember the smell of the earth before rain, How my mother held me close. Now that scent is inside me, running through my vein, I became her, I'm the ghost. But if you hear this fading sun, Know I'm not dead – I've just begun... [Final Chorus: Crescendo, merging all themes (Lullaby + Gaia's Hymn), then sudden fade.] Eden fell... (Echo: fell...) But Earth sings... (Echo: sings...) Leaf will fall... (Echo: fall...) But root waits... (Echo: waits...) [Outro: Lone piano plays the opening notes of "Gaia's Hymn" in minor, fades. Sound of footsteps on dry earth, silence, distant bird cry.]