The Long Cold

style

• progressive black metal
• atmospheric
• tremolo guitars
• blast beats
• harsh male vocals with clean passages
• cold and vast
• epic structure
• norwegian accent
• clean sung passage in bridge
• mountain wind ambience

the numbers

bpm

152

key

E minor

energy

0.75

dance

0.96

valence

0.49

vocal at

19.0s

length

5:09

language

En

lyrics

(instrumental, 16 bars, building)

The mountain does not know that I am here
It has not noticed anything in ten thousand years
I climbed it in December to be told that
(to be told that)
And it told me nothing, which was the telling

Indifference is not cruelty
(not cruelty)
It is worse and it is honest

The long cold
(the long cold)
Nothing here is against you, nothing here is for you
The long cold
And that is the only mercy offered

On Monday I teach children how to spell
On Saturday I scream into a valley that ignores me
Both are true and neither is a costume
(neither is a costume)
The children would not understand and should not

(clean passage, quiet, mournful)
There is a stillness after the fury
That is the part I came for
(BLAST BEATS RETURN, HEAVIEST)

The long cold
(the long cold)
Nothing here is against you, nothing here is for you
The long cold
And that is the only mercy offered

(the long cold...)