[TITLE: CEDAR & STONE] [INTRO — WIND THROUGH TREES + LOW CHOIR] [SFX: forest wind] [SFX: distant bells] [SFX: soft crackling fire] [SFX: low humming choir] [Whispered] From cedar to stone... From cedar to stone... [BACKGROUND CHANTS] (Cedar...) (Stone...) (Ancient names...) (Ancient names...) [VERSE 1] Ash on my sleeve Salt in my hair I walked through the night And I found you there The room was small The fire burned high Your eyes held truths That money couldn’t buy Old men sat quiet Hands folded in prayer Smoke climbed slowly Through the cold evening air Copper bowls ringing Soft beside the flame Every voice inside the room Sounded older than their names Outside snow falling Inside candles glowed Somewhere in the silence I felt the old world show [BACKGROUND WHISPERS] (The old world...) (The old world...) [PRE-CHORUS] From ice to desert dust From cedar to stone Every tongue still trembles When it hears the unknown Old words rise up From bone and breath Everybody searching For what survives death [CHOIR BUILD] Ohhhhhhhhh... Ahhhhhhhhh... Cedar and stone... Cedar and stone... [HOOK] From cedar to stone We carry what remains Every generation Trying to heal the pain From cedar to stone Across the ash and rain Different roads and languages Still calling out the same [POST-HOOK CHANTS] (The same...) (The same...) (Cedar and stone...) (Cedar and stone...) [VERSE 2] Nordic runes glowing On the walls beside the fire Babylonian choirs Singing songs to something higher Tibetan bells ringing Through the smoke and incense Desert prophets walking Forty nights relentless Aztec temple warnings Painted deep inside the caves Every civilization Trying somehow to be saved I heard hymns in cathedrals I heard drums beneath the trees Every culture holding pieces Of the same old mystery Children by the riverside Listening to elders speak Like wisdom moved in whispers For the humble and the weak I saw scars on every face I saw fear in every eye Everybody carrying storms They never explained why [BACKGROUND WHISPERS] (Storms inside...) (Storms inside...) [PRE-CHORUS] Every fire leave ashes Every love leaves marks Sometimes all we really are Is memories in the dark One sky over many One river through us all Even kings and empires Eventually still fall [HOOK — BIGGER] From cedar to stone We carry what remains Every generation Trying to heal the pain From cedar to stone Across the ash and rain Different roads and languages Still calling out the same [CHOIR LAYER] (Cedar...) (Stone...) (Heal the pain...) (Heal the pain...) [BRIDGE — EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN] [SFX: soft thunder] [SFX: choir swells] [SFX: fire intensifies] Tell me would you stay If the cold came in? Would you guard this flame Till the world grew thin? I heard the hymns I saw the sparks Different tongues Same beating hearts One child in the desert One child in the snow Both staring at the heavens Trying to understand the glow No one escapes sorrow No one escapes time But somewhere in the firelight We remember we alive [BACKGROUND CHOIR] (Remember we alive...) (Remember we alive...) [VERSE 3] Ashes in the river Smoke into the dawn Every generation fragile Still somehow moving on I looked around the fire Saw tears in tired eyes Sometimes healing starts When nobody has to hide Old women softly singing Young men beating drums The whole room felt alive Like the future finally come The night grew colder But the fire stayed bright Somewhere in the darkness People still choosing light I touched the cedar doorway Felt the grain beneath my hand Like every soul before me Still somehow understand [PRE-FINAL BUILD] Raise the flame higher Raise your voices strong We were never truly lost We just wandered too long [FINAL HOOK — MASSIVE] From cedar to stone We carry what remains Every generation Trying to heal the pain From cedar to stone Across the ash and rain Different roads and languages Still calling out the same From cedar to stone One sky above us all Every fire every empire Eventually still fall [OUTRO] [Whispered] From cedar to stone... The fire remembers... [BACKGROUND CHOIR FADING] (Cedar...) (Stone...) (Cedar...) (Stone...) [SFX: forest wind fading into silence]
