This is the fourth and closing track of the “Broken Rites EP”.

“Jester’s Lament” brings that register down to a human and theatrical scale. The final gesture is no longer transcendence, but demasking: the end of performance, the exhaustion of persona, and the desire to let the role fall away. Rather than enlarging the work’s imagery, the last track closes the curtain on it.

The release was created in an iterative process with AI support, but the final output is predominantly original work - especially in sound design, synth work, rhythm, arrangement, structure, and final refinement. The artificial voice is used intentionally as part of the aesthetic concept, rather than as a stand-in for a conventional vocal performance. Also, quite frankly, we did not have a real vocalist available.

The result is a four-part work about longing, inner darkness, damaged grace, and the final act of laying down the mask.

Instrumental version available in the download section!

This track is also available at YouTube: https://youtu.be/XcDP2r-FqOY

With luv and peace from Hamburg
7OOP3D

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[Verse 1]
The laughter I’m wearing
Like a mask that’s to claim
It’s so hard to keep up
With sorrows that leap up
Under the surface, jest’s tears to blame
So, dark night, fade away

[Chorus]
So, sad jest, fade away
So, sad jest, fade away
fade away,
fade away

[Verse 2]
The laughter I’m faking
And ain’t it just pain?
It’s so hard to keep smiles
With sorrows that pile up

[Drop]
From jests that grow stale when the crowd’s the same

[Chorus]
So, sad jest, fade away
So, sad jest, fade away
fade away,
fade away

[Bridge]
Behind colored masks
I’ve danced and played the parts
It’s so hard to keep laughin’
As sorrows are draftin’
The stories we hide, in shadowed hearts

Let this role, fade away

[Chorus]
So, sad jest, fade away
Let this role, fade away
So, sad jest, fade away
Let this role, fade away

fade away