Ashfall Requiem - Pillar of Fire by Ray Bradbury

Promotional music for Ray Bradbury's story "Pillar of Fire" featured in "The Pitch Science Fiction 2Q2025" available at: https://lphi.top/p-tpsf-6
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Lyrics SRT:

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[Verse 1]
From the earth I clawed, a bitter birth
Hate my father, hate my worth
No sunlit grace, no gentle breeze
Just ancient loathing, if you please.

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Walk again? A mockery!
Dead limbs straining, desperately
A strangled gasp, a silent plea
Lost in autumn's burning sea.

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[Pre-Chorus]
Smell of ruin, smoke and flame
Whispers echo, calling my name
Centuries buried, cold and deep

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Awakened now from endless sleep!

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[Chorus]
Two thousand three forty-nine!
A number lost, a fading sign.
The last dead man, a twisted jest
In this sterile world, put to the test!

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No ghosts remain, no shadows creep
Just burning logic, cold and deep!

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Incinerator's fiery kiss
Annihilation, endless abyss!

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[Verse 2]
Graveyard stripped, a barren scene
Tombstones shattered, stark and mean.

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They came for bodies, one by one
Their sterile work, coldly done.

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I heard the shovels, felt the dread
Waiting for them, among the dead.

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But late they came, their task undone
Leaving me standing 'neath the sun.

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[Pre-Chorus]
A switch in the story, a cruel design
The last dead man, walking through time!

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No faith, no fear, just empty space
Lost in this future's cold embrace.

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[Chorus ]
Two thousand three forty-nine!
A number lost, a fading sign.
The last dead man, a twisted jest
In this sterile world, put to the test!

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No ghosts remain, no shadows creep
Just burning logic, cold and deep!

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Incinerator's fiery kiss
Annihilation, endless abyss!

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[Bridge]
They burn the past, erase the trace
Of ancient fears, of time and space.

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No superstition, no whispered lore
Just scientific cleansing at their core.

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But I remember… Poe’s dark delight
Lovecraft's horrors in endless night!

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The Raven's shadow, a chilling call...
They silenced them all!

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[Guitar Solo]

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[Breakdown]
HATE… FUEL… FIRE!
CONSUME… OBLITERATE!

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NO REMEMBRANCE… NO REGRET!
JUST ASHES… FORGET!

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[Chorus]
Two thousand three forty-nine!
A number lost, a fading sign.
The last dead man, a twisted jest
In this sterile world, put to the test!

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No ghosts remain, no shadows creep
Just burning logic, cold and deep!

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Incinerator's fiery kiss
Annihilation, endless abyss!

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[Outro]
Dead… so dead… all gone…
No more shadows… no dawn…
Just ash… and silence… forevermore...

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[Final scream] ASHFALL!

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Ashfall.