A Time for a Ballad

If the time the song was sung was the total time of a world's birth and subsequent destruction...

… Then when the song ended, it would mark the moment when the world disintegrated… How… would you decide the rhythm for such a song?

If the time the song was sung was the total time of a person's birth and road into death…

… Then when the song ended, it would mark the moment when the person's life ended… Who… would you choose to mention in your song? How would you sing it to yourself?

There was a ballad that rang throughout the existence of a universe, until it was destroyed. During that period of time, the ballad was time itself…

The composer of the ballad could add names into the song so that they would be with the ballad and exist eternally. They would… never rot away and die.

In the ancient past, there were nine lives and four races whose names were mentioned in the song, and they became glorious existences during the cycle of their epoch with the ballad.