Brothers on Diamir

The Kashmir sky

The biggest face in snow

Sixteen thousand feet

Reaching from top to toe

A sight of blinding splendour

When destiny calls

Straight on the path to fame

The king has broken a bond

The summit calls their names

Before the voice trailed away

In silence

Before he was swept away

Brother, death and loneliness

He's crawling

He's falling

He is desperately unclear

He's tracing, effacing

The memory of Diamir

The western wall

A fateful call

No answer, no warning

Just fear for a brother on Diamir

A gleam of hope, racked with pain

The way to cope, when brothers remain

Woebegone, the pangs of remorse

On and on to follow the force

The summit alone (Summit alone)

The ghost of a chance

The venture so unknown (So unknown)

A fading romance

In the presence of danger (In the presence of danger)

The tag-end of will

The claws of a stranger can stroke or can kill

Enshrining the memory (Memory)

Surmounting the fear

It's an icebound tragedy, the fate of Diamir

The veil of oblivion, of blood, tears and sweat

Out of a clear sky as his sun is set

Pay the last honors, thoughts range the past

Hold on in remembrance, memories that last

Goodbye