Griffon’s Last Light
A Queen-style rock opera with grand piano, layered electric guitars, booming drums, choir, and theatrical vocals. A necromancer raises the dead to march on the living, and a young elf must find the Golden Griffon before all hope dies.
Lyrics
Intro]
Midnight cracks the crystal sky
Candles bleed in circles wide
Shadows bow
The air turns black
He whispers
And the world looks back (ah…)
[Verse 1]
Crown of bone on a broken throne
He carves runes in the frozen stone
“Wake up
Wake up
”
To the dust and the buried names
Fingers claw through the shallow earth
Empty eyes catching stolen birth
Armies rise
To the echo of iron chains
[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the thunder of a thousand feet
On the hills where the hearth-fires sleep
Living hearts beating out of time
With the dead on the other side
[Chorus]
Ride
Golden Griffon
Ride
Blazing through the poison sky
Feathers burning
Wings of light
Cut a path through endless night
Fly
Before the last bell cries
Before the final ember dies
Guide this trembling arrow’s aim
Golden Griffon
Call my name
[Verse 2]
In the pines
Where the whispers cling
A young elf hides with a tattered string
Bow in hand
But her courage is paper-thin
Mother’s song in a foreign tongue
“Find the fire where the world was young
Trust the wind
It remembers where you’ve been”
[Pre-Chorus]
Spires fall in a distant blaze
Ash and glass on the forest ways
Every step
Every breath
A choice:
Run or raise your breaking voice
[Chorus]
Ride
Golden Griffon
Ride
Blazing through the poison sky
Feathers burning
Wings of light
Cut a path through endless night
Fly
Before the last bell cries
Before the final ember dies
Guide this trembling arrow’s aim
Golden Griffon
Call my name (call my name)
[Bridge]
[Choir softly
Then building]
Deo gladii
Spiritus alae
(Griffon aurum, surge, surge)
[Lead vocal]
On the altar of the dying sun
He stacks kingdoms up
One by one
“Bow
” he laughs
“to the breath I stole”
But the wind starts to quake in his hand
Golden tide rolling over the land
She steps forth
With a spark in her throat
Singing—
[Breakdown]
[Voice and piano only]
“I am not your chosen grave
I am not your silent slave
Every bone you break in me
Is another note in my victory”
[Final Chorus]
[Band and choir erupt]
Ride
Golden Griffon
Ride (ride!)
Blazing through the poison sky
Feathers burning
Wings of light
Cut a path through endless night
Fly
As arrows pierce the dark
As the dead fall back from the mark
Every heart a rising flame
Golden Griffon
We reclaim
[Outro]
Drums like storms in a clearing field
Dead undone
And the wounds that heal
One small voice
On a shattered battlement
Holds the sky as the echoes fade
Golden wings folding into day
Hope survives
In the hush where her arrow went