4. Voices of the Damned

Verse 1 In the black between the pines I heard sorrow split in lines Not the wind and not the rain But a choir made of pain From the village, from the square From the places grief laid bare Rose the cries of those undone Calling judgment on the blood Chorus Hear the voices of the damned Rising through the broken land No more silence, no more sleep They remember, they will speak Hear the voices of the damned Like a fire beneath the sand Every debt will have its name Every oath return in flame Verse 2 Crimson eyes in shifting smoke Every silence that I broke Seemed to answer back in grief Like the dark had found its teeth Children waking cold with fright Livestock screaming through the night Every shadow stretched too long Every bell became a song Chorus Hear the voices of the damned Rising through the broken land No more silence, no more sleep They remember, they will speak Hear the voices of the damned Like a fire beneath the sand Every debt will have its name Every oath return in flame Bridge They are not just rage and dread They are all our nameless dead Bound by bargains none should keep Buried far too wrong to sleep If I listen, if I dare There is more than vengeance there There is grief beneath the scream There is truth inside the dream Final Chorus Hear the voices of the damned Not as monsters, but as scars Not as phantoms born to kill But the cost of what we are Hear the voices of the damned I will carry what they say And if blood must answer blood Let it end with me today