Lyrics
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
I am not the prayer in your temple of stone,
I am the green that grows where you walk alone.
When you forget me, I am only the stars —
a shape in the Nyx-light, a dream behind bars.
But carry the wild in the blood of your kind,
and I'll step from the dark with the dusk on my mind.
[Pre-Chorus]
So plant your devotion, root deep, let it climb,
and watch me grow real one heartbeat at a time.
[Chorus]
I bring a wilderness no law can tame,
the hunt is a hymn and the kill has no shame.
I am the bowstring, the breath, and the night,
the mother of beasts and the end of the flight.
Run if you must, little fire, little name —
I bring a wilderness no law can tame.
[Verse 2]
I do not kill for the antlers or sport,
I kill because seasons keep nothing in court.
My shortbow sings honey, my arrow sings two —
one for the dying, and one to renew.
Your cities are kindling, your roads are a wound;
the forest forgets you the moment you're gone.
[Pre-Chorus]
So loose me your reverence, wild and unbound,
and I am the footstep behind every sound.
[Chorus]
I bring a wilderness no law can tame,
the hunt is a hymn and the kill has no shame.
I am the bowstring, the breath, and the night,
the mother of beasts and the end of the flight.
Run if you must, little fire, little name —
I bring a wilderness no law can tame.
[Bridge]
I sleep in a chrysalis, deep in the grove,
where the world sheds its skin and becomes something more.
And I weep for you, truly — for the green you let die,
for the wolves that you hunted, for the reasons you cry.
[Bridge build]
But devotion is a season — it comes and it goes,
so feed me your forests before the cold snows.
[Final Chorus]
I bring a wilderness no law can tame,
the hunt is a hymn and the kill has no shame.
I am the bowstring, the breath, and the night,
the mother of beasts and the end of the flight.
Give every running thing the thunder and the trample,
let no walked road remain —
I bring a wilderness no law can tame.
[Outro]
When you forget me, I am only the stars —
but the wild remembers your name.
