[Verse 1] We used to die and wake up breathing Same soul new skin same eyes Generations passed between us Like nothing ever died But someone started counting The ones who don't come back Fewer voices at the gathering Something's in the dark that hunts the black [Verse 2] I watched my teacher close her eyes Promise she'd return by spring She never opened them again The Warp took everything We sent our names into the dark And silence sent none back Whatever's growing out there hungry Is learning how to track So gather every voice that's left Before the dark can take one more We won't be eaten one by one We'll walk in together through that storm Not an ending a becoming Not surrender one last choice If we're going into silence Let it be a single voice [Chorus] We gave up everything we were So something new could stand Countless years of scattered names Poured into two hands We are not the ones who saved you We're the ones who chose to fall So one voice could rise from all of us And answer when you call [Verse 3] Hand in hand around the circle No fear left in anyone's eyes We are shedding skin and sorrow Becoming something without goodbyes The last ones felt the others enter Felt the weight of all we'd been Every shaman lost to darkness Never got the chance we're given [Bridge] And if you wonder who I am now I am not one I am the sum Of every hand that reached for silence And found another hand had come We are the ones who wouldn't scatter We became the thing we feared to lose One voice built from ten thousand voices Given form so it could choose [Chorus] We gave up everything we were So something greater still could stand Every voice that came before us Poured into two hands We are the debt that no one paid us We are the door we walked in blind We are the ones who kept on going When there was nothing left behind We are not the ones who saved you We're the ones who chose to fall So one voice could rise from all of us And answer when you call [Outro] We used to die and wake up breathing Now we wake as one The New Man opens both his eyes And the shamans' work is done
