Mile Marker 3: Where the Wild Things Are

[Verse] Raven in the canopy... Hawk upon the air... Wolf tracks by the water... Something bigger... Over there... Black bear in the thicket... Moose among the pines... Elk call through the valley... Like a voice... From older times... [Instruments building] [Pre-Chorus] Every step... Takes me farther... From the world... That thinks it's ours... [HARD CUT — EXTREME METAL] [Chorus — gutturals, colossal tremolo guitars] THIS IS WHERE... THE WILD THINGS ARE! TOOTH AND TALON! HOOF AND CLAW! OUT THIS FAR... YOU DON'T MAKE THE LAW! No fence! No road! No guiding star! YOU'RE AT THEIR MERCY... WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE! [INSTANT CUT — banjo and fiddle] [Verse] Owls speak in the darkness... Coyotes answer back... Antlers cross the moonlight... Then vanish... Into black... Two eyes in the timber... Too high above the ground... Branches start to breaking... But nothing... Makes... A sound... [Low fiddle drone] [Deep Southern baritone] Bear... maybe... [Pause] Maybe not... [HARD CUT — EXTREME METAL] [Chorus] THIS IS WHERE... THE WILD THINGS ARE! FANG AND FEATHER! HOOF AND CLAW! OUT THIS FAR... YOU DON'T MAKE THE LAW! No fence! No road! No guiding star! YOU'RE AT THEIR MERCY... WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE! [Sudden silence] [Bridge — low guttural spoken word] YOU ARE NOT THE HUNTER... YOU ARE NOT THE KING... YOU ARE MEAT... WITH A NAME... LISTENING... TO SOMETHING... IN THE TREES... [Crack of a distant branch] [Deep Southern baritone] Respect that... [FINAL EXTREME METAL ERUPTION] [Final Chorus] THIS IS WHERE... THE WILD THINGS ARE! BEAUTIFUL! BRUTAL! UNTAMED! UNSCARRED! OUT THIS FAR... YOU DON'T MAKE THE LAW! BREATHE REAL DEEP... AND REMEMBER... HOW SMALL... YOU ARE! [HARD CUT] [Solitary banjo] [Whispered] Something's older than the mountains... Walk these lands... I say... [Pause] Let them be... [Forest ambience] [End] Walk these lands... I say... [Pause] Let them be... [Forest ambience] [End]