[TITLE: TEMPLE WALLS] [INTRO — CAVE DRONES + DISTANT STONE ECHOES] [SFX: cave ambience] [SFX: dripping water] [SFX: low rumbling drones] [SFX: distant ceremonial drums] [Whispered] The walls remember... The walls remember... [BACKGROUND CHANTS] (Eclipse visions...) (Eclipse visions...) (Temple walls...) (Remember...) [VERSE 1] Aztec eclipse visions Painted deep inside the cave Temple walls covered With the warnings that they gave Ash on the fingertips Smoke in the cold air I traced every symbol Like I might finally care The lantern shakes The corridor bends Every mark saying “This is where it ends” Bone-colored faces Stare out through the cracks A river under silence Pulling everything back I heard the footsteps Before I saw the door Old fear in my chest Like it lived here before Candles lined in circles Wax melting into stone Something in the darkness Didn’t want to die alone [BACKGROUND WHISPERS] (Stay...) (Stay...) (Don’t look back...) (Don’t look back...) [PRE-CHORUS] Old words rising Out the dust below Every empire buried Still trying not to go One black circle Hanging in the sky Everybody searching For the reason why [CHOIR BUILD] Ohhhhhhh... Ahhhhhhh... Temple walls... Temple walls... [HOOK] Aztec eclipse visions Aztec eclipse visions Temple walls remember What the dark has written Aztec eclipse visions Aztec eclipse visions Say my name in stone Till the dawn comes back in [POST-HOOK CHANTS] (The walls remember...) (The walls remember...) (Eclipse...) (Eclipse...) [VERSE 2] Copper masks hanging From the ceiling by the flame Every hallway whispering Some forgotten sacred name Shadows moving slowly Across the painted gold Like the cave itself was breathing Something ancient and old Black obsidian mirrors Covered up in cloth Priests with painted faces Warning what it cost Drums inside the distance Echo through the underground Every single heartbeat Made the whole room pound Snakes carved in pillars Eyes made out of jade Something in the silence Made me scared to be saved I saw red handprints Pressed into the wall Like somebody knew The sky would someday fall [BACKGROUND WHISPERS] (The sky would fall...) (The sky would fall...) [PRE-CHORUS] The lantern shakes The corridor bends Every mark saying “This is where it ends” Every warning written Every king turned bone Every empire vanished Trying to outrun the unknown [HOOK — BIGGER] Aztec eclipse visions Aztec eclipse visions Temple walls remember What the dark has written Aztec eclipse visions Aztec eclipse visions Say my name in stone Till the dawn comes back in [CHOIR LAYERS] (Eclipse...) (Eclipse...) (Temple walls...) (Remember...) [BRIDGE — ATMOSPHERIC BREAKDOWN] [SFX: deep rumbling] [SFX: distant thunder] [SFX: reversed choir] If I leave now Will it follow me? If I stay here Will I finally see? One black circle Over everything I knew And the warning burns Straight through and through I saw old kings kneeling With their heads against the floor Like they heard the same voice Coming through the door The cave kept breathing The shadows never slept Every secret buried Was a secret still kept [BACKGROUND CHOIR] (Still kept...) (Still kept...) [VERSE 3] Temple smoke rising Through the cracks above the flame Children standing silent Like they scared to say a name Gold dust in the air Ashes on my skin Every symbol in the chamber Felt alive within The walls were never speaking The walls were never dead They were waiting for somebody To remember what they said I touched the painted circle Then the whole room changed shape Like the cave became a doorway And the doorway couldn’t break I heard thousands crying Somewhere underneath Like forgotten generations Still trapped below my feet [FINAL HOOK — MASSIVE] Aztec eclipse visions Aztec eclipse visions Temple walls remember What the dark has written Aztec eclipse visions Aztec eclipse visions Say my name in stone Till the dawn comes back in Aztec eclipse visions I walk out changed forever But the cave stays living And the walls remember [OUTRO] [Whispered] The cave stays living... The cave stays living... [SFX: distant cave wind] [SFX: low rumbling fades into silence]
