[Intro – whispered / atmospheric] Low wind through hollow trees… No path… no name… no mercy… [Verse 1] Where the moss remembers every tread Of the living pulse and the silent dead No lantern burns, no bell will toll Yet something walks without a soul A branch may break where none have passed A breath of frost though night is cast And in the hush beneath the pine Old roots awake… and intertwine [Chorus] In the dark of the elderwood Where no man stands but something should A hand unseen will right the wrong And fade before the dawn is strong [Verse 2] No feather falls, no arrow flies Yet silver thins and hunger dies A shifting weight, a loosened chain A quiet loss, a hidden gain The lords who sleep on fur and wine May dream of cracks they can't define For in the bark and in the loam The forest takes what’s not its own [Chorus] In the dark of the elderwood Where justice moves as silence would No witness lives, no story stays Just vanishing through tangled ways [Instrumental Break – flute / drone / low strings] [Bridge – very soft, almost spoken] No name was carved… no face was known… No prayer was said… no seed was sown… Yet balance bends where roots run deep… And wakes the earth that does not sleep… [Final Chorus – slightly stronger, still restrained] In the dark of the elderwood Where old laws breathe beneath the hood No crown survives, no gold remains When whispered through the root and veins [Outro] Where the moss remembers… …you were never there…
