Noiraciel -The Last Prayer

[Intro – Clean / Choir low] Candles drowned in crimson wax Ash fell soft on broken glass I heard the silence take its place Where faith once had a face

[Verse 1 – Clean] The organ breathed through hollow stone Like something old now left alone Black dust hung over shattered gold A temple empty, vast and cold

The violins moved slow and thin Like winter entering the skin Low brass rolled under every word Like grief too deep to still be heard

[Pre-Chorus – Clean building] No hands together No voices raised No heaven listening No saving grace

[Pre-Chorus – Growl layer] Only the echo Only the cry Only the moment The last prayer dies

[Chorus – Clean + Growl Layer] The last prayer dies Here in the ruin, here in the lightless The last prayer dies Cold as the stone, holy and violent Raise the bells Lower the sky Let the choir sing as the faithful divide The last prayer dies And all that remains Is the sound of goodbye

[Post-Chorus – Low Clean] The last prayer dies The last prayer dies

[Verse 2 – Clean] My wings were still, my breath was smoke Around me every pillar broke The red glow fading from the nave Like fire retreating from the grave

The piano fell in iron drops As if the world itself had stopped And every name I could have saved Was buried deeper in the weight

[Pre-Chorus – Clean] I knelt to nothing I rose with less I touched the end Inside my chest

[Pre-Chorus – Growl layer] No saint beside me No flame to guide Only the hour The last prayer dies

[Chorus – Clean + Growl Layer] The last prayer dies Here in the ruin, here in the lightless The last prayer dies Cold as the stone, holy and violent Raise the bells Lower the sky Let the choir sing as the faithful divide The last prayer dies And all that remains Is the sound of goodbye

[Bridge – Clean / Choir / Growl] [Clean] Grand piano trembling under the dust Strings like mourning learning not to trust French horns fading through a blood-black dome Like kings who died too far from home

[Choir] No more prayer No more prayer

[Growl] Break the altar Drain the wine Strip the gold From every sign Crush the symbol Mute the hymn Let the sacred finally dim

[Breakdown – Growl] No more waiting No salvation No divine negotiation If the heavens will not answer Let the silence be the answer If the light was only rumor Let it die here in the rumor Stone and marrow Smoke and sky Everything kneels When the last prayer dies

[Orchestral Lift – Clean] Hear the choir turn grief into distance Hear the brass bend night into weight Hear the bells count every illusion As the dark arrives too late

[Final Chorus – Clean + Huge Growl Layer + Choir] The last prayer dies Here in the ruin, here in the lightless The last prayer dies Cold as the stone, endless and violent Raise the bells Lower the sky Let the choir sing as the faithful divide The last prayer dies And all that remains Is the will to survive

[Final Lift – Clean / Choir] The last prayer dies But my heart still beats below The last prayer dies And I still stand inside the smoke The last prayer dies No more heaven left to try The last prayer dies And I am here To hear it die

[Outro – Clean low] Candles drowned in crimson wax Ash fell soft on broken glass I heard the silence take its place Where faith once had a face