track 9 of 10 from Theotria

the finale of the story of Theotria. brought to you by humanity itself

shoutout to my friend, who goes by Nounbrain, who helped me greatly with writing the lyrics for this one! (they're not on NG)

written by Nounbrain and Teradex

performed by Teradex

lyrics:

attention, civilians

evacuate right now

hide yourself in your basement

shield yourself from the air

get inside

stay inside

close your eyes

prepare for

the finale

of the trilogy

the finale

of the trilogy

shattered with the power of U-235

scattered particles across the universe

never mattered if anything is still alive

so let the solar winds be our hearse

last message to the earth

death sweeps across the field

the mushroom rises in the sky

as the mantle blows off of the core

the finale

of the trilogy

the finale

of the trilogy

shattered with the power of U-235

scattered particles across the universe

never mattered if anything is still alive

so let the solar winds be our

let the solar winds be our

let the solar winds be our hearse

miniature sun exposed from underneath our feet

as the land from which we stand upon all now quickly depletes

and the ocean disappearing, mantle melting like Swiss cheese

and the core now rose, exposed, exfoliated by an Oppenheimer dream

the atmosphere fractured like glass as earth flies up to reach it

the creatures fly away, as the approaching light shall bleach them

and magma wraps around the earth, but rose up to the surface

a dozen billion faces all together showing "dear mankind, we've earned this"

as the valleys turn to mountains and the fields turn into hills

and the caves rise up to space as the creatures within are killed

and what sticks onto the mantle filled with spreading seismic lines

and as the earth begins to crack, we're reaching now the end of times

and the ocean's waste is falling past confining us to spots we stand

and acid rain baptizing all our crowded flocks who understand

that third time is the charm and it is here we can't pretend

we are all completely fucked and Planet Earth has reached its fucked up end

music nerd stuff:

this song is basically homage to king gizzard and the lizard wizard's heavier material with its switching time signatures, polymetres, chugging guitars and growling vocals.

the rhythm of this one was quite tricky. about half of the song is in what i'd call 5/5/8, so groups of 5 bars of 5/8. you could also look at is 25/8, but i don't think it's as helpful. the instrumental bridge after the second verse has this guitar phase thing going on, with the guitar on one side playing the riff in 5 and the guitar on the other side playing it in 6, they get more and more out of sync right until the moment they get back in sync again. the ending doesn't have much rhythmic fuckery, it's just really fast

the vocals were quite hard with this one, had to learn how to growl to record the chorus

lyrically, this song is as vivid as it gets on the album. the parts written by Nounbrain (especially the ending) go hard.

notably, this is the only song that features swearing on it and only the very end. thought it would be fitting