Epilogue - The Reckoning

Описание: Music from High Country Extinction’s album ‘A Compendium’.

The Reckoning serves as the collapse of every unanswered question, reducing the album’s arguments to embodiment, consequence, and the body left behind when meaning fails.

Lyrics:


[Verse]
I searched the words until they ran out
I bled them dry until they said nothing
Every answer rotted in my hands
Every truth bent into shape by demand

I carried the weight
I carried the blame
I carried the silence
I carried the name
But nothing returned
Nothing remained
Only the body still chained to the frame


[Pre-Chorus]
You wanted meaning
You wanted release
All you were given
Was the weight of being

[Chorus]
No absolution
No escape
No higher ground
No clean slate

This flesh remembers
What faith could not
This flesh remembers
Every cost


[Verse]
I stood through fracture
I stood through loss
I stood when the silence refused to respond
If there was an answer
It never arrived
If there was a reason
It stayed buried alive

No heaven descended
No judgment spoke
Only breath and bone
Still bearing the yoke

[Pre-Chorus]
If this is the truth
Then say it out loud

[Chorus]
No absolution
No escape
No higher ground
No clean slate

This flesh remembers
What faith could not
This flesh remembers
Every cost

[Symphonic break (orchestra strips to low strings and piano, tension hanging)]

[Breakdown Build Vocalist 1 guttural low slow]
There is no answer coming
There is no answer coming

[FINAL BREAKDOWN Vocalist 1 guttural violent with Vocalist 2 layered shouts]
THERE
IS
NO
ANSWER

[Double bass drums erupt nonstop, inhuman speed, crushing guitars]

[Final Lines Vocalist 1 guttural screamed over breakdown]
THE QUESTIONS REMAIN
THE BODY PAYS