[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: One heartbeat is answered by three weapon strikes; the full band erupts immediately.]

[Verse 1]
EE-meer rose and split the steam,
Larger than our measured dream.
His fist came down; the rime plates flew,
A thousand shards of poisoned blue.
VEE-lee drove beneath his arm,
VAY hooked bone to break its harm.
I climbed the ridge above his chest
And felt the first heart fight arrest.

[Pre-Chorus]
He called no curse, he begged no breath;
He only stared and wrestled death.
The blade went in, the world drew near—
The first law spoken through a spear.

[Chorus]
This is the first murder, carved before the day,
Three gods made order the oldest way.
Blood found river, bone found name,
The world took shape in woond and flame.

[Verse 2]
His heel struck VAY and cracked the plain,
His fingers closed on VEE-lee’s chain.
I tore the MOOS-pel shard across
The cords where breath and thunder crossed.
The heartbeat stumbled under steel,
One blow too vast for sound to seal.
Then all his weight began to fall,
And falling EE-meer filled it all.

[Chorus]
This is the first murder, carved before the day,
Three gods made order the oldest way.
Blood found river, bone found name,
The world took shape in woond and flame.

[Breakdown]
[Breakdown Direction: The tempo falls into a crushing half-time pulse synchronized with EE-meer’s failing heart.]

Beat—
The rivers shook.
Beat—
The brothers stood.

[Breakdown - Response]
Beat—
The frost turned red.
No beat.
The first was dead.

[Verse 3]
His blood broke loose in walls of red,
The sons of frost were swept like grain,
Their cries submerged beneath the rain.
Only BAIR-gel-meer found a chest,
A hollow mill-box fit for rest.
He fled the flood with wife and name,
To nurse old hatred into flame.

[Bridge]
[Male Vocal: EE-meer] I was no tyrant on a throne.
I filled the dark because I’d grown.
You call it order, shore and sky;
Remember who first stopped the drums.

[Instrumental]
[Instrumental Direction: Tagelharpa scrapes the motif downward while guitars sustain a dissonant chord above rushing toms.]

[Build-up]
The blood climbed high.
No empty place remained.
We held one bone above the tide
And watched a race of giants die.

[Final Chorus]
This is the first murder, carved before the day,
Three gods made order the oldest way.
Blood became ocean, bone gained name,
Innocence ended in woond and flame.

[Coda]
The heart may be silent, the body may fall,
But the roots will remember the blood of it all.

[Outro]
No heartbeat answered underfoot.
Red water circled branchless root.
Three gods stood breathing, bruised and grim—
Alone upon the corpse of EE-meer.
