Hold the Hymn Until the Ice

[Instrumental Break - glacial drone swelling] [Verse - hushed] Under the white that never learned to bend, a thousand winters folded, waiting to descend, we knelt on the shelf where the old cold sleeps, counting the cracks the surface keeps. [Hook] (Wake, before the frost forgets) (Wake, before the frost forgets) [Verse - hushed] The ground exhaled a memory undone, older than the language, older than the sun, veins of amber breath beneath our feet, a hunger buried deep we're not equipped to meet. [Refrain - lead vocal against full congregation] Hold the hymn until the ice replies, hold the silence where the answer lies, every voice we raise, the glacier drinks it in, we are the choir singing where the thaw begins. [Breakdown - doom weight enters] [Instrumental Break - minimal skeletal percussion, ice cracks audible] [Bridge - collapsing] Listen — the shelf is speaking now, not in thunder, in a slow unbowed groan that travels through the frozen floor, the god we buried isn't sleeping anymore. [Refrain - full choir, lead vocal against congregation, distorted] Hold the hymn until the ice replies, hold the silence where the answer dies, every voice we raised, the glacier drank it in, now we are the breath the frost let in. [Outro - fading into silence] (Wake, before the frost forgets) (Wake...) (Wake...)