[Intro: deep ritual drone, distant earth-moving stone, whispered choir] There were eleven. I know that now. Ten of us survived the story. One of us survived As a hole in it. [Low bell] We did that. [Verse 1: low clean vocal, sparse drums] I remember standing underground Where even Morvane would not go Eleven shadows in the torchlight Ten afraid of one alone No crown upon its forehead No weapon in its hand It only stood there watching us Like it already understood the plan Serathiel carried judgment Kaelor carried steel Vaelune wouldn't meet its eyes And Solvar couldn't make it kneel [Pre-Chorus: choir slowly rising] I asked what crime deserved this Nobody answered me Then it spoke one word And all ten gods Forgot how to breathe [Chorus: enormous, haunting] WE BURIED A GOD WITHOUT A NAME Beneath a world that never knew We broke the throne We burned the scripture We buried every proof No prayer remains to call it No mouth remembers what to say Because some things don't stay dead IF SOMEBODY REMEMBERS THEIR NAME We buried a god And buried the name with it [Verse 2: heavier, slow marching rhythm] Morvane carved the grave himself Deeper than his kingdom went Orun broke the hour around it So time would never know it spent Velkara sealed the upper stone With lightning fused to glass Aestra extinguished every beacon That could lead something back Nythra watched without blinking That should have warned us all She already knew what names could do When spoken through the dark [Pre-Chorus 2] We didn't fear its body We didn't fear its grave We feared the thing that listened Every time Its name was said [Chorus] WE BURIED A GOD WITHOUT A NAME Beneath a world that never knew We broke the throne We burned the scripture We buried every proof No prayer remains to call it No mouth remembers what to say Because some things don't stay dead IF SOMEBODY REMEMBERS THEIR NAME We buried a god And buried the name with it [Interlude: almost total silence, faint heartbeat beneath stone] [Low clean vocal] I remember killing it. I don't remember why. I remember Kaelor screaming. I remember Vaelune crying. I remember Serathiel saying: “Do not listen.” [Pause] Then I remember hearing my own voice Say a name That no longer exists. [Deep impact] And something answered. [Verse 3: tense, increasingly distorted] Afterward we burned the records Not pages Languages Every alphabet that held the sound Every prayer that formed its shape We broke statues at the mouths Cut faces from the stone Destroyed the people who still knew it [Pause] That is the part I wish I didn't remember [Instrumental swell] We called it mercy We called it necessary We called it survival But whatever words we chose We murdered memory To keep a grave closed [Breakdown: crushing ritual half-time] [Harsh vocal] BURN THE NAME BREAK THE TONGUE KILL THE PRAYER BEFORE IT'S SUNG [Gang vocals] BURY IT DEEP [Harsh vocal] BENEATH THE DEAD NO GOD NO MORTAL HOLDS IT IN THEIR HEAD [Gang vocals] ELEVEN BECAME TEN [Harsh vocal] AND TEN SWORE THE LIE WE DIDN'T ERASE IT BECAUSE IT DIED WE ERASED IT SO IT WOULD STAY THAT WAY [Bridge: piano, distant female choir, voice almost breaking] Vaelune asked me afterward “Do you remember?” I said no. She held my face And cried anyway. [Pause] Now I understand. She wasn't asking If I remembered killing it. She was asking If I remembered What we called it. [Very distant whisper] Fenrir... [Low Fenrir vocal] Don't. [Whisper] You already know. [Final Chorus: colossal, choir and screams underneath] WE BURIED A GOD WITHOUT A NAME And made the whole world share our lie Ten thrones remained Ten gods remembered Ten names survived But underneath the oldest mountain Where no prayer should ever reach There is an eleventh grave AND SOMETHING UNDERNEATH IT STILL DREAMS We buried a god We buried its throne We buried every word That could lead it home And if the name returns If even one of us remembers— [Music cuts] It won't need resurrection. [Outro: low subterranean rumble] [Whispered choir] Ten remain. Ten remain. Ten remain. [Fenrir, very softly] I remember the first sound. [Long silence] [Unknown voice from beneath] That's enough.
