[Intro] [Verse 1] I spent a hundred years just watching the moss grow, In a wood elf grove where the time is soft and slow. I knew the hemlock’s name, I knew the fox’s cry, But I felt a hunger beneath the forest sky. I followed Thoread— my brother, my steady hand, When he chose to leave our quiet, emerald land. He led the way, and I tracked his every stride, With nothing but a trapper’s bow and a restless heart inside. [Verse 2] We found Eastwater, a skeleton of wood and salt, And we worked the docks, forgiving every fault. I loved the smell of Omar’s hearth, the ale, the common song, I felt, for once, like I truly could belong. I watched the people— spied on their quiet human lives, Their complicated love, their husbands and their wives. I gave away my coin, I gave away my cloak, Believing life was grand... until the world went up in smoke. [Chorus] In the secret of my heart, I pray to the Earth so deep, For a changeless world that the mountain tried to keep. But "a bird in the hand... is worth two in the hurricane," I’m trying to be bright, even through the rot and rain. Relationships are knots, they’re messy and they’re frayed, But I’m still standing here, I’m not even afraid. [Verse 3] The night the Cat Feral came, the sky turned a bruised, angry red, The dead were in the streets, and the living wished them dead. I saw the tavern burn— that place of warmth and light, I felt the heat of it... shivering through the night. They tied up Omar. They let the embers have their way. I felt the ground tremble, but Grumbar had nothing to say. I saw the dreams of Eastwater turn to ash and bone, And for the first time in a century... I felt the cold in my stone. [Outro] But Thoread is beside me. We have our bows, we have our names. We’re hunters of the dark, born of forests and of flames. I’ll find the beauty in the ruins, I’ll find the herbs that heal, Because "every silver lining... has a heart of hammered steel." Yeah. Hammered steel.
