Keep The Root Beneath The Marble (Mix 2) V6

[Verse 1] Thirteen moons were marked in bark By hands that knew the turning year Oaks held names beneath their rings And winter had its own true prayer [Verse 2] Then came the seal, the book, the bell A road of Latin through the rain They laid new stone above the springs And gave old feasts a borrowed name [Chorus] Keep the root beneath the marble Keep the count beneath the crown What the conqueror calls forgotten Still can rise through sacred ground [Verse 3] At midwinter, candles gathered Where the longest night once spoke When spring returned, bright eggs were carried Past the ash and through the smoke [Bridge] Not erased, but bound and altered Not unchanged, and not undone Every altar kept a measure Every tree remembered sun [Final Chorus] Keep the root beneath the marble Keep the count beneath the crown Old roads wind below the choir And the buried stones sing down [Outro] Thirteen moons beneath the calendar Green names sleeping in the stone