[Intro] [Intro] (slow heartbeat bass thump, wind moaning low, distant crack of ice) Three days out here... snow don't stop... Somethin' followin' close... walkin' when I walk... [Verse 1] Snow up past my knees, stomach caved in and hollow, Voice behind me soundin' just like my father's, followed, Followed it deeper knowin' better, knowin' I shouldn't, Legend say once you hear it callin' out, you're already good as, Gone, already claimed, already markin' territory, This the kind of tale don't nobody live to tell the story, Ribs pushin' out my skin like somethin' hollowed my body out, Hunger ain't natural, this a curse that's carved into my mouth, Antlers scrapin' bark, too tall to be a man that's walkin', Patient in the tree line, ain't in no rush, ain't stalkin', It already got me — question is just how long I fight it, 'Cause the cold don't kill you slow, the hunger's what excite it, [Hook] (slow, heavy, chant-like — thick bass under each line) Wendigo... walkin' where I'm walkin'... Wendigo... talkin' when it's talkin'... Ain't no runnin' from the hunger in the snow, Once it's in you, ain't no tellin' where it go, [Verse 2] Found a cabin half-collapsed, bones stacked by the door, Journal on the table, ink gone brown, water-warped, wore, Read it by the firelight, hands shakin', can't stop, Said the winter took his whole crew, one by one, no stop, Said he swore he'd never do it, swore it 'fore he broke, Swore it 'fore the hunger took the words right out his throat, Now I'm starin' at my hands and they don't look the same no more, Countin' how many days I got before I'm on that floor, Findin' out I ain't the first to walk this exact same path, Everybody hear the voice, everybody do the math, Last page of that journal wasn't written in his hand, Was written in mine — same ink, same words, same man, [Bridge] (deep guttural growl, barely words, buried low in the mix) "...you already know... you already know..." [Outro] (silence, heartbeat bass fades to nothing, one final crunch of snow) ...that wasn't me that just stepped... ...wasn't me at all...
