🌺Lyrics adapted from the poem by Taras Shevchenko🌺 [Verse – whispered, dark tone, deep drums beneath] Days are passing… nights decay… Summer rustles, fades away. Golden leaves in silence fall, My eyes are dim, I feel no call. Thoughts lie buried, heart’s asleep — Am I alive… or just too weak? I drift through this forgotten land, No tears, no joy... no helping hand. [Ambient tremolo guitars rise, bass heartbeat pulse begins] [Verse – rising voice, more melodic, orchestral elements enter] O Fate, where are you? Cold and bare. No sign, no whisper in the air. If no kind fate will guide my path, Then give me one with storm and wrath! Don’t let me sleep while walking blind, Nor let my soul be left behind. Don’t let me rot — a lifeless tree — But raise a storm inside of me! [Chorus – EPIC orchestral rock burst, trembita echoes the melody] Let me live with a fire in my chest! Let me love, or let me rage, unrest! If I can’t rise with sacred light — Then curse this world and blaze the night! Blaze the night… ignite the sky… O Fate, appear or let me die! [Traditional choir chants in background (faint, Ukrainian-style): “Доле, де ти…”] [Verse – musical drop, ambient choir textures return, solo vocal intense] To fall in chains — a bitter fate, But worse — to sleep in freedom's gate. To sleep and sleep, while skies turn black, And never leave the faintest track… No mark, no echo, no goodbye, As if I never lived… or died… [Orchestral staccatos rise; distorted bass builds tension] [Chorus – strong, cinematic rhythm, layered harmonies, bigger vocal delivery] Let me live with a fire in my chest! Let me love, or let me rage, unrest! If I can’t rise with sacred light — Then curse this world and blaze the night! (Set it aflame… let ashes rise…) Fate, show your face — or close my eyes! [Bridge – ritualistic chant over pounding drums, call-and-response choir] (Whispers) Fate... where are you? (Shouts) Come forth or be denied! (Choir) If there is no good one, give us a bad one! Strike me down… or lift me high! Let this silence burn and cry! [Trembita cuts through, like lightning strike, everything goes still] [Final Chorus – all instruments, full force, battle cry energy] Let me live with a fire in my chest! Let me love, or let me rage, unrest! If I can’t rise with sacred light — Then curse this world and blaze the night! O Fate — if you exist at all — Then rise, or let the heavens fall! [Outro: Slow fade into male choir chanting "Доле, де ти?" over ambient wind. Single trembita note sustains… silence.]
