The World that Never Was

[Intro] [A driving, high-energy 70s disco bass loop enters, locked into heavy industrial riffs and double-kick drums, while a solo Erhu plays lightning-fast Brahms-like gypsy scales] [Chord: Am - Dm - E7 - Am] [VOCAL DIRECTIVE: SOLO MALE BARITONE – NO BACKING VOCALS, NO HUMMING, NO LAUGHING] [Verse 1] [Velvety male baritone, deep and smooth, sung with a heavy Texas accent, no humming, no laughing] [Chord: Am] Close your eyes and look through the quantum divide, [Chord: Bdim] To a parallel branch where the universes slide. [Chord: Dm] What if that ancient rock from the black empty space, [Chord: E7] Had missed our planet by a single minute's grace? [Chord: Am] In our timeline they died, but in that hidden zone, [Chord: Am/G] The mammals remained under shadow and stone. [Chord: Fmaj7] Fifty million long years before human first cry, [Chord: E7] A different mind was already mapping the sky. [Chorus] [The rhythm explodes into a heavy, driving Balkan electro-disco groove, energetic accordion and brass fills] [Chord: C] Oh, the feathers are pulsing, the frequency grows, [Chord: G] In a timeline of wonder that nobody knows! [Chord: Am] If the stone hadn't fallen, the kingdom would rise, [Chord: Fmaj7] With cold ancient logic and beautiful eyes! [Chord: Dm] An alternative empire, a sovereign throne, [Chord: E7#9] The master of shadows, completely alone! [Verse 2] [Tempo keeps driving, Shantel-style balkan beat, bagpipes and a melancholic duduk weave through the metal crunch] [Chord: Am] The Troodon was ready, his brain was too fast, [Chord: Bdim] Built for a future that was never to last. [Chord: Dm] In that ghost world of 'if', with binocular sight, [Chord: E7] They built up a culture in the mesozoic night. [Chord: Am] We think we are masters, the crown of the game, [Chord: G7sus4] But we’re just an accident without any name. [Chord: F] Born from a crash and a terrible spark, [Chord: E7] While their clever civilization stayed in the dark. [Chorus] [Full dramatic gypsy-classical heavy metal fusion, soaring erhu and thunderous drums] [Chord: C] Oh, the feathers are pulsing, the frequency grows, [Chord: G] In a timeline of wonder that nobody knows! [Chord: Am] If the stone hadn't fallen, the kingdom would rise, [Chord: Fmaj7] With cold ancient logic and beautiful eyes! [Chord: Dm] An alternative empire, a sovereign throne, [Chord: E7#9] The master of shadows, completely alone! [Instrumental Interlude] [A virtuosic, crying Eastern Erhu plays lightning-fast Brahms Hungarian Dance variations over a heavy Rammstein-like industrial guitar groove and a pumping disco-rock bassline] [Chord: Fmaj7 - Bm7b5 - E7#9 - Am] [Outro] [The heavy band stops dead. Only a ticking clock sound, a soft accordion pulse, and a low Texas whisper remain close to the mic] [Chord: Am] The rock didn't miss. Our world is the one. [Chord: Dm] But out in the multiverse... [Chord: E7] Under their sun. [Chord: Am] They got there first. [Gravelly whisper] [Chord: Dm] In the world that never was. [Chord: Am] [Sudden massive industrial metallic slam and sharp radio-static cut] [End]