(low humming with soft wind ambience, acoustic guitar, distant bells) Verse 1 Roots beneath the ruins Still drink deeply from the rain Wild thyme through broken stonework Green returning once again Moonflowers curl through shattered windows Moss softens every wall And every place once left abandoned Still remembers how to grow at all Chorus Roots beneath the ruins Holding fast beneath the years Life still rises through the silence Even watered once by tears Stone breaks Vines climb The earth reclaims the cold And every weary wounded thing Still carries something whole Verse 2 Lavender grows near the archway Rosemary beside the stairs The willow hums above forgotten paths Like a quiet evening prayer No ruin stays untouched forever No winter holds complete Even the deepest buried sorrow May one day soften into peace Bridge The earth does not erase what suffered here It simply grows gently around it Final Chorus So let the roots run deep beneath you Let the old stones rest below There is beauty after breaking More than ruined walls may know And somewhere underneath the silence Past grief and storm and gloom The living world keeps reaching upward Roots beneath the ruins bloom Ending (layered humming with breeze and distant thunder fading softly) Mmmmm… Grow through… Mmmmm…
