Aurora Lyra · The Black Bond · Track 10 of 12
The Third Largest
“It was the third largest thing said in this room tonight.”
The novel's watercooler line, scored. After. A name said in a black room. The catharsis you didn't know the book had been building toward.
Movement
Cost
Length
4:20
Scene
Ch. 31
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Part of the twelve-track Aurora Lyra album, The Black Bond — Companion Album.
Full lyrics
“The Third Largest”
Spoiler — Chapter 31. The watercooler line. The brother's name. Read the book first if you want it cold. Click to reveal lyrics.
Intro
instrumental, ~20s on solo piano in D minor
Instrumental.
Verse 1
He said his name once
We were inside, and the door was latched
The fire had banked, and the wind was a long low note
And he said his name once
Pre-Chorus
There were three things said in this room tonight
The smallest was the question
The second was the silence between
The third —
Chorus
It was the third largest thing said in this room tonight
And it was the largest thing he had ever said to me
A name three years held in his teeth
A name three years held in mine
And the room held it like a bell
Verse 2
Before the Council Chamber heard anything
Before the speaking-stone bore any weight
He had said the name to me first
A name three years held in his teeth
Pre-Chorus
There were three things said in this room tonight
The smallest was the question
The second was the silence between
The third —
Bridge
Aedran low-register, the single sung line, before strings open
Tarryn
Chorus
full mixed choir opens on this iteration
It was the third largest thing said in this room tonight
And it was the largest thing he had ever said to me
A name three years held in his teeth
A name three years held in mine
And the room held it like a bell
Final Chorus
full strings + choir + processed pulse, last 30 sec is the release
It was the third largest thing said in this room tonight
And it was the largest thing he had ever said to me
A name three years held in his teeth
A name three years held in mine
And the room held it like a bell
The third largest, the largest
Lyrics © Aurora Lyra. All rights reserved.
The scene
Ch. 31 · After. Mira asks Aedran his brother's name. He says it.
The line the track turns on
“It was the third largest thing said in this room tonight.”
About the track
The novel's watercooler line, scored. After. A name said in a black room. The catharsis you didn't know the book had been building toward.
The Black Bond is the first novel of The Skarn Reach, an Aurora Lyra romantasy. Every Aurora Lyra novel ships with a companion album — twelve original songs scored to the book’s emotional spine. This track is one of three in the Cost movement.
The aftermath. The watercooler line. The catharsis. The HEA, with the wing-tear in it.
All twelve tracks
Hear the full arc.
Twelve songs in three movements. Threshold. Storm. Cost. The album scored to the spine of The Black Bond.
See the full track list →The novel this scores
The Black Bond
She put him in a cage. Three years later, his dragon chose her.
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