Black-Eyed Bride of Fire Creek #4
fusion of Gothic Folk × Dark Appalachian Ballad x murder ballad,, Ethereal female alto, breathy with strength underneath, ghostly harmonies, Key: A minor, Tempo: Slow 3/4 time (waltz feel) – around 60 BPM, Mood: Mournful, beautiful, and cursed, Violin (harmonics + tremolo) – mournful, shivering, layered for ghostly texture, Reverb-drenched Nylon Guitar – slow fingerpicked arpeggios, ,Dulcimer Percussion – as eerie plucks or sparse knocks (coffin-like),Harmonium / Pump Organ – distant and wheezy, breathing beneath verses, Female Vocals – layered with distant harmonies, whispering backing lines, Ambient FX – water lapping, wind through hollow reeds, a faint wedding bell chime
Black-Eyed Bride of Fire Creek #4
fusion of Gothic Folk × Dark Appalachian Ballad x murder ballad,, Ethereal female alto, breathy with strength underneath, ghostly harmonies, Key: A minor, Tempo: Slow 3/4 time (waltz feel) – around 60 BPM, Mood: Mournful, beautiful, and cursed, Violin (harmonics + tremolo) – mournful, shivering, layered for ghostly texture, Reverb-drenched Nylon Guitar – slow fingerpicked arpeggios, ,Dulcimer Percussion – as eerie plucks or sparse knocks (coffin-like),Harmonium / Pump Organ – distant and wheezy, breathing beneath verses, Female Vocals – layered with distant harmonies, whispering backing lines, Ambient FX – water lapping, wind through hollow reeds, a faint wedding bell chime
Lyrics
Verse 1
country style vocals
They say she wore her mother’s fancy dress
Of ivory lace satin and threadbare grace
And stood where Fire Creek bends west
With makeup caked upon her face
Verse 2
country style vocals
He swore he’d come at evenings first breath
But twilight and night came and nothin’ more
She waded out deep past the riverbed
And left her hopes strewn along the shore
Chorus – Swelling, Echoed Vocals
country style vocals
Black-eyed bride of Fire Creek
Beneath the river's moan
You waited where the water speaks—
But now you drift alone
Now you drift alone
Verse 3 – Ghostly Harmony Enters
country style vocals
Years later steps don’t mark the muddy banks
But sometimes still hear her sing a low refrain
Of a lost Bridal Dance and rotted wedding cake
A line for every lie he spoke an promise sang
Bridge – Spoken Whisper Over Organ Drone
They never found her ring...
Just the drown'd lilies floatin’ downstream
And the boy who who ran and cried?
He ain’t spoke since he stood at your graveside
Final Chorus – Softer, More Intimate
country style vocals
Black-eyed bride of Fire Creek
velvet gloves on her hands
Wears the vow he dared to break
She still haunts all the Hollows wedding bands
Outro – Barely Audible Humming + Distant Bell Toll
country style vocals
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Some girls bloom in their own time
Others beneath the surface....
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