Final March in Black
Create a dark gothic duet about slain soldiers resting in cursed fields. Male and female voices overlap throughout, with a spoken section merging toward the finale. Feature war drums, kettle drums, and ripping guitars, building to a massive epic close.
Lyrics
[Verse]
War drums start low, heavy as wet clay
Kettle drums thump a heartbeat on the ground
Ripping guitars tear the morning sky apart
Voices rising like smoke from burning wood
[Verse 1]
He stands in mud that tastes of iron rust
Her armor dries to brittle flakes of bone
They trace the scar where cannon fire took hold
And watch the ash fall down the wind-swept zone
Two men who traded breath for iron sheets
Now breathe the scent of sulfur and dry earth
The drummers beat a rhythm on the teeth
While wolves howl out their hunger in the north
[Chorus]
Rest here, rest here where the shadows lie
Rest here where the moss climbs up the thigh
The ground is deep and hungry as a grave
We are the dust that the battle waves will wave
Male: We are not dead, we are just bent
Female: My legs don't work, the cold has sent
Both: A signal to the earth to keep us near
Male: The silence screams a terrible, clear
Female: It's loud with the smell of rotting gear
Both: Oh, we are scattered like old clothes over there
[Verse 2]
She cuts the hair that smells of gunpowder smoke
He scrapes the mud from boots that never spoke
The river runs with colors from the tanks down south
A muddy river dragging down the blackened pout
No names are spoken on this cursed plain
Just the clatter of a hat against the chain
The orchids bloom in soil mixed with bone
This is the only seed they ever sown
[Bridge]
(Whispered, merging voices)
The flag is torn, the ripples spread
The dead are full, the living need
The silence grows a mouth to speak
Watch the silence break the neck
Drums pound faster, ripping through the grass
Guitars scream the memory of the pass
[Chorus]
Rest here, rest here where the shadows lie
Rest here where the moss climbs up the thigh
The ground is deep and hungry as a grave
We are the dust that the battle waves will wave
Male: We are not dead, we are just bent
Female: My legs don't work, the cold has sent
Both: A signal to the earth to keep us near
Male: The silence screams a terrible, clear
Female: It's loud with the smell of rotting gear
Both: Oh, we are scattered like old clothes over thereWar drums fade to nothing but the breeze
Kettle drums in fields of overgrown trees
Ripping guitars break on silent string
The dead are gone, but the dead don't sing
The orchids bloom in soil mixed with bone
This is the only seed they ever sown
(Whispered, merging voices)
The flag is torn, the ripples spread
The dead are full, the living need
The silence grows a mouth to speak
Watch the silence break the neck
(Explosion of sound)
Mud and moss and sulfur in the smoke
Two ghosts trapped on this cursed, broken rock
Rest here.
Rest here.
(End)