Rift in Steel (Version 2)

Intro

(Female – soft choral murmur)

Steel is open...

Riff plays on a distant slide guitar

(Male – deep ritual chant)

Gather at the breach.

The old road bends.

Let the void consume.

This is our end.

Verse 1

I saw it move beneath my skin.

A shadow crawling out from within.

My axe fell slow through frozen air.

The rift was waiting, and I was there.

Every scar turned silver bright.

Every death rewrote in light.

I am a river of iron and steel.

Unending and cold as the steel.

Pre-Chorus

Do you feel it spreading now...

The rift is open, let it flow...

Synth pluck sequence builds up to peak in the pre-chorus

(Male + Female) RIFT! RIFT!

Open wide, break the frame.

Let the steel dissolve like a flame.

Rift inside of you and me.

Nothing left but chaos sea.

Chorus

This is the end.

Gather at the breach.

The rift in steel.

Unfolding deep.

(Hold that same line: Hold it here!)

I am iron.

You are fire.

Together we ascend.

Through this gate, I burn with you.

This is the end.

Gather at the breach.

The rift in steel.

Unfolding deep.

Verse 2

Every temple falls like a spire.

Every secret runs through wire.

They tried to trap us on a wall.

But we are blood and iron all.

I found my way back into this line.

A long-forgotten name of mine.

The rift pulled open what was lost.

And I became the thing it chose.

Pre-Chorus

Do you feel it spreading now...

The rift is open, let it flow...

Synth pluck sequence builds up to peak in the pre-chorus

(Male + Female) RIFT! RIFT!

Open wide, break the frame.

Let the steel dissolve like a flame.

Rift inside of you and me.

Nothing left but chaos sea.

Chorus

This is the end.

Gather at the breach.

The rift in steel.

Unfolding deep.

(Hold that same line: Hold it here!)

I am iron.

You are fire.

Together we ascend.

Through this gate, I burn with you.

This is the end.

Gather at the breach.

The rift in steel.

Unfolding deep.

Bridge

(Male + Female – ethereal, chant-like)

We move as one through open gates.

Nothing left to hold or wait.

Let us lose ourselves inside this gate.

Where the only truth is what remains...

Organ swells up for a final peak in the bridge

Fades out slowly into static

(Hold that same line: Hold it here!)

This is the end.

Gather at the breach.

The rift in steel.

Unfolding deep.