Gravebound

[Intro deep male choir, epic] “Sink not the innocent, sink not the bound…” “The river remembers. The chains drag you down.” [Verse I] They called my name in a hall of lies, Gold in their hands, truth in disguise. I saw the smile of the man who knew, The blood on his hands — but the noose for me. “No mercy.” The gavel fell. Cold iron wrapped like a coffin shell. Dragged to the river, no last prayer — Just stones and silence in the air. [Pre-Chorus] Water closed above my head, Iron pulled me to the dead. Lungs on fire, vision black — But I refused to fade to that. [Chorus] GRAVEBOUND! — I will not drown! GRAVEBOUND! — I claim this ground! Chains to the stone, soul to the pain — If I go down, you drown the same! GRAVEBOUND! [Verse 2] The river roared, but I held fast, Iron screamed as anchors clasped. Roots and rock split in my wake — The world itself began to break. I rose from black with dragging steel, Breath reborn, but something sealed. Not unchained — no, worse than that — The chains obeyed. They answered back. [Pre-Chorus ] Step by step through mud and flame, Every link recalls his name. He thought the water sealed my grave — But graves don’t close. They only save. [Chorus] GRAVEBOUND! — You cannot flee! GRAVEBOUND! — You’re bound to me! Steel in your chest, breath in your cry — You will not live. You will not die! GRAVEBOUND! [Bridge] One blade thrust — I watched you fall. Not enough. Not death at all. Chains around your choking breath, I held your soul outside of death. Feel the wound that will not close. Feel the fear that never goes. You stole my life — you sealed your fate — Now suffer where you forged this hate. [Final Chorus bigger, layered choir behind] GRAVEBOUND! — No mercy found! GRAVEBOUND! — Nailed to the ground! Soul to the flesh, scream to the vein — You’ll taste the river again and again! GRAVEBOUND! GRAVEBOUND! GRAVEBOUND!