[Intro: distant wind, low choir, sparse clean guitar] They call them legends now Paint them gold and hang them high Turn old graves into stories So children sleep at night I don't correct them Some things are kinder When they're lies [Verse 1: low clean vocal, restrained drums] I remember cities without names Stone towers swallowed by the sand Kings who thought they'd live forever Dying with the world inside their hands I remember oceans boiling Red beneath a broken sky Things crawling out between the stars That learned how gods could die You call them myths Because you weren't there I call them memories Because I was [Pre-Chorus: atmosphere building] And when the room goes quiet When the daylight leaves my eyes The centuries come crawling back Like wolves beneath the ice [Chorus: huge melodic metalcore] OLD GODS HAVE BAD DREAMS TOO We just learned not to scream when they come true I still see the burning temples Still hear the dying heavens move You wake afraid of monsters I WAKE BECAUSE I KNEW THEM Old gods have bad dreams too [Verse 2: heavier guitars] There was something beneath the mountain Before your oldest language formed No scripture ever wrote its name We buried every word There were moons that weren't our moon There were suns that bled like wounds There were voices in the darkness That could make the dead move I've watched prophets lose their minds Trying to describe what I had seen Funny what becomes religion When nobody survives the scene [Pre-Chorus 2] So don't ask why I hate the silence Don't ask why I watch the door I've seen things return from dying And I've seen them come back worse [Chorus] OLD GODS HAVE BAD DREAMS TOO We just learned not to scream when they come true I still see the burning temples Still hear the dying heavens move You wake afraid of monsters I WAKE BECAUSE I KNEW THEM Old gods have bad dreams too [Interlude: clean guitar, distant whispered voices] [Whispered] They've forgotten you They've forgotten all of you Good Stay forgotten [Verse 3: almost spoken, intimate] Sometimes I dream I'm young again Before the scars Before the sun Before I knew how endings sounded Before I watched the first one come And for a moment I don't remember Then something moves beyond the treeline And I know exactly where I am [Breakdown: sudden massive drop] [Harsh vocal] YOU CALL IT FOLKLORE I CALL IT A WARNING YOU CALL IT ANCIENT I CALL IT THIS MORNING I KNOW WHAT SCRATCHED BENEATH THOSE STONES I KNOW WHY EVERY GOD LEFT IT ALONE [Gang vocals] BURY THE NAME [Harsh vocal] BURN EVERY PAGE [Gang vocals] LOCK EVERY DOOR [Harsh vocal] AND PRAY IT STAYS A FUCKING FAIRY TALE [Atmospheric break: choir, heartbeat drum, crackling fire] [Bridge: exhausted clean vocal] Immortality isn't remembering everything It's trying desperately To forget Faces Voices Places that haven't existed For ten thousand years And sometimes I wonder If I'm dreaming about them Or if somewhere They're dreaming about me [Whisper] I heard you. [Final Chorus: enormous, desperate clean vocals with screams underneath] OLD GODS HAVE BAD DREAMS TOO There are wounds even eternity won't soothe I still smell the ash of kingdoms Still see shadows crossing moons You pray the ancient monsters Were invented to frighten you I PRAY THEY'RE STILL ASLEEP Because I know what happens WHEN THEY MOVE Old gods have bad dreams too [Outro: instrumentation slowly collapsing] [Low clean vocal] Morning comes The room is still Another nightmare disappears But somewhere underneath the earth Something answers [Long silence] [Whisper] I heard you. [Whisper] I
