Pendant

[Intro — ambient clean guitar, djent motif, no drums] [Verse 1 — mid-range screams; long enjambed lines, rhymed couplets, almost sung then rising] They pulled it from the river where the lanterns drown, a disc of yellow metal with your fingerprint worn down; the merchant called it worthless, but he could not see the way a thing remembers what a person used to be. [Pre-Chorus — clean vocals, melody climbs stepwise; drums build, rhymed] So I keep it close, I keep it low, the only heat I have to show. [Chorus — clean vocals, big hook; melody leaps a 5th then holds a long note; layered harmonies, rhymed couplets] A disc of amber against my chest, a small flame that will never rest; I keep the glow and keep the vow — the past is heavier than now. [Verse 2 — mid-range screams, busier drums; rhymed couplets] I have carried it through cities that forgot my name, through winters that were kinder than the summers all the same; and when the fever took me, I would hold it to the light and count the little scratches like a map through the night. [Pre-Chorus — clean vocals, climbing again, heavier] So I keep it close, I keep it low, the only heat I have to show. [Chorus — clean vocals, wider harmonies, full arrangement] A disc of amber against my chest, a small flame that will never rest; I keep the glow and keep the vow — the past is heavier than now. [Thump Section — 7/8, percussive slap-and-thump guitar, bass and drums only, no vocals] [Breakdown — half-time, lowest register; gang shouts] BURY — ME — IN — GLOW BURY — ME — IN — GLOW [Guitar Solo — fluid legato, melodic first then technical] [Bridge — ambient, no drums; quiet clean vocals, sung, melody descends, rhymed] If gold can outlive breath and bone, then I will not be quite alone. [Final Chorus — clean vocals with screamed layer, full harmony, maximum intensity] A disc of amber against my chest, a small flame that will never rest; I keep the glow and keep the vow — the past is heavier than now. [Outro — clean guitar returns, fading, quiet clean vocals] It holds the heat of you. I hold the rest.