[Verse 1] Three kingdoms down Across the sea I read the signs They taught to me Six-toed marks In softened stone Bare circles cut Through root and bone The locals said It moved like dust Too many legs In deadened dusk A desert shade A bone-white frame And in its limb It carried flame [Pre-Chorus] At the last salt flat The air turned still My hands went cold My bow bent still Not fear this time Not even awe Just that same weight In every claw [Chorus] It knew my name It knew my name Through the cracked black land It knew my name It knew my name It knew my name And I stood my ground When the dark came [Verse 2] Twice horse-high It rose from ash Ribbed and pale In a slow-thrum flash Six jointed legs On broken earth Curved talons tapped Like counting words A proboscis leaned With a smaller one Eye-stalked, coiled And nervous, spun Its black eyes held Deep water shade Not hunger there Just old parade [Pre-Chorus] And then I saw The awful grace A proof too strange To fit one place Beautiful In the coldest way Like locked night At the edge of day [Chorus] It knew my name It knew my name Through the cracked black land It knew my name It knew my name It knew my name And I stood my ground When the dark came [Bridge] Then behind me The world went mute Not thunder born But a silence brute A hole in sound A split in air I turned too fast And something stared One breath held One heart of stone If it crossed worlds It crossed alone [Breakdown] Six tracks in the dust Six tracks in the light Six tracks to the edge Of the ending night [Final Chorus] It knew my name It knew my name Through the cracked black land It knew my name It knew my name It knew my name And I stood my ground When the dark came It knew my name It knew my name So let the worlds break I will not bend
