Across The Rainbow Bridge

Lyrics

[Intro - lone lead guitar solo bleeding into distant strings, ominous choir swells, shamanic chants circling like smoke]
Cold stars shiver over broken ground
A wolf moon hangs, no mercy found
From the ash where the living kneel
I hear the gate begin to seal

[Verse 1 - low-tuned guitars crawl in, tom-heavy drums, deep guttural lead with whispered backing chants]
We walked through fire with open hands
Through shattered vows and bloodied sands
Now the river calls with a silver tongue
And the old names fade from the broken lung
I carry your voice in a rusted chain
A scar that sings through the bone like rain
The night is a temple, black and wide
And I feel your breath on the other side

[Pre-Chorus - tension rising, harmonized leads, choir building under clean-to-raw vocal lift]
When the sky cracks open, I will know
The path of embers, the undertow
No grave can hold what the storm has sworn
We are the flame the dark has borne

[Chorus - massive double-kick, twin lead guitars soaring, choir chants, gang shouts, anthemic and mournful]
Across the rainbow bridge we run
Through the ash beneath a dying sun
No chains, no fear, no final fall
We answer the call, we answer the call
Across the rainbow bridge we rise
With the thunder in our hollow eyes
And if the void should take our name
We burn in the light of the endless flame

[Verse 2 - heavier groove, syncopated riffs, snarling vocals, eerie string stabs, tribal percussion accents]
I saw the lost ones gather near
With painted bones and no more fear
They beat the earth with a sacred hand
And called my soul from the sinking land
The serpent wind, the iron veil
The moonlit path through the widow’s trail
Every wound became a door
Every cry became a war

[Pre-Chorus - guitars climb, choir and chants intensify, vocal melody stretches wider]
And in the hush between two worlds
I saw your spirit, fierce and whole
No more pain in the winter rain
No more hunger, no more chain

[Chorus - full force, layered harmonies, lead guitar counter-melody, thunderous drums]
Across the rainbow bridge we run
Through the ash beneath a dying sun
No chains, no fear, no final fall
We answer the call, we answer the call
Across the rainbow bridge we rise
With the thunder in our hollow eyes
And if the void should take our name
We burn in the light of the endless flame

[Instrumental Break - twin guitar duel, melodic solo over shifting harmonies, strings surge, choir holds a wordless drone]

[Bridge - stripped to clean guitar, distant thunder, deep shamanic chant, vulnerable vocal, then swelling back to distortion]
Oh, keeper of the veil, hear me
I walk the edge of memory
If I must become the night
Let me carry love as firelight
Drums of the earth, speak my grief
Wind of the ancestors, bring relief
I am not lost, I am not gone
I am the echo carrying on

[Guitar Solo - searing lead over galloping rhythm, orchestral strings climbing, choir chanting in ancient cadence]

[Final Chorus - biggest and widest, stacked vocals, crushing breakdown under the last lines, triumphant and tragic]
Across the rainbow bridge we run
Through the ash beneath a dying sun
No chains, no fear, no final fall
We answer the call, we answer the call
Across the rainbow bridge we rise
With the thunder in our hollow eyes
And if the void should take our name
We burn in the light of the endless flame

[Breakdown - slowed tempo, chugging low strings, brutal drums, ritual chants, shouted gang vocals]
Burn!
Through the black!
Rise!
No more lack!
Burn!
Through the veil!
Ride!
Where the spirits sail!

[Outro - fading choir, mournful lead guitar harmonics, shamanic whispers, distant rain and thunder]
Across the bridge...
Across the bridge...
We are the ash, we are the spark
We are the song that lights the dark