Guard's Dawn Overture
Compose an orchestral piece featuring French horns, timpani, and a grand piano, symbolizing the changing of the guard. Let the French horns announce a new era, while the piano and percussion build a sense of urgency and change, inspired by the call for a national reset.
Lyrics
[Orchestral introduction - French horns and timpani]
[Verse 1]
The old kings are packing their crowns into velvet-lined cases
Erasing their names from the gilded parade
The watchmen have fallen asleep at their stations
While something magnificent rattles the gates
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you hear it?
The footsteps approaching like thunder
Can you feel it?
The ground splitting under
[Chorus]
This is the changing, the great rearranging
The ceremony of everything strange
Raise up the banners for those who are strangers
The guard is turning, the world is turning
We're burning the page
[Verse 2]
The protocol crumbles like yesterday's monuments
Every tradition becomes just a ghost
They're marching in backwards, these beautiful oddities
Taking their places from end to front post
[Pre-Chorus]
Can you hear it?
The trumpets announcing surrender
Can you feel it?
The rules torn to splinters
[Chorus]
This is the changing, the great rearranging
The ceremony of everything strange
Raise up the banners for those who were nameless
The guard is turning, the world is turning
We're burning the page
[Bridge - Piano and strings]
In the space between what was
And what will never be again
There's a moment
Breathless, weightless
The gasp before the rain
We are standing in the doorway
Between the then and when
The old guard bows
The new guard rises
Everything begins again
[Final Chorus]
This is the changing, the magnificent ranging
Of everything caged being freed from its cage
Sound all the horns for the coming of morning
The guard is turning, we're all of us turning
We're writing the page
We're writing the page
[Outro - Triumphant timpani and brass]
The changing of the guard
The changing of the guard
The guard is changing now