Now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeC_bDpJfS0 ©2026 Echo Grove Music. All rights reserved. Lyrics written and owned by Echo Grove Music. ⋆⁺₊⋆ ☽ ✩ ☾ ⋆⁺₊⋆ [Verse 1] He came through the trees with the dusk on his spine, her blood on his shoulder, her scent in his mane, the Sentinel reached, said "come home, come back," but his ears went flat and his lips pulled back. Teeth like winter, long and strong, he told them plain where he did not belong. No hand but hers had held that rein, and she was gone, and would not ride a-gain. [Verse 2] They say... I am too young for a bow this heavy, I am not trained, I am not ready, I am not marked, I am not sworn, But I am the family that mourns. Through night and rain, he came to me. He knelt in the dirt of my mother's tree. And I climbed on with her pain in my throat, and the last of her warmth still on his coat. [Pre-Chorus] Their war is my war now, their road is my road, I was no one they counted, but grief makes its own oath. [Chorus] My heart is a blade, my arrow is sharp, we ride in the shadow, we bed in the frost. Brother, my brother, the only kin left, we follow their footsteps, we follow their breath. [Verse 3] I see their fires but I cannot come near, I sleep where he sleeps, in the cold and the fear, the blood on his fur is fading to rust, and I mourn even that, the loss into dust. They think he is theirs, so they rue his loss. They do not know what the choosing has cost. He is not property, not theirs to tame. He is the soul who remembers her name. [Bridge] In the dead of the night, under a cold black sky, my soul-brother whined like a lost kitten's cry, the pain that he hid by day broke through the quiet, and I pressed against him, for comfort and goodbye. [Final Chorus] My heart is a blade, my arrow is sharp, we ride in the shadow, we bed in the frost. Brother, my brother, the only kin left, we follow their footsteps, we follow their breath. [Outro] He chose me to ride in her stead. We follow the fires, we sleep with the dead. And when the war breaks, when the arrows fly, we crash the line, my brother and I.
